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Space Station Hannerdad!

3 (1.8%)

Uh, were we supposed to pass it?

1 (0.6%)

Just one more orbit, I promise.

1 (0.6%)

BAD Spaceship!

14 (8.5%)

Docking completed...

2 (1.2%)

We just have to go up to the hub bridge...

0 (0%)

Race you there!

1 (0.6%)

Marten, no! You still have all your -

2 (1.2%)

- mass. BERF

15 (9.1%)

Hello, Station!

1 (0.6%)

Aren't there any, um, PEOPLE?

0 (0%)

128 researchers, security, and support personnel on board

0 (0%)

Station, Spaceship... notice a pattern

0 (0%)

Hannelore went through a descriptivist phase...

3 (1.8%)

I called my dad "Sceince Daddy" until I was 17.

12 (7.3%)

Notorious Marten Reed (ugh I hate MC Hammer)

3 (1.8%)

Lieutenant Potter.

5 (3%)

US Military takes their duties more seriously than they ought.

1 (0.6%)

Station, I'm just trying to do my job.

0 (0%)

Fine, fine... Okay... what?

0 (0%)

USAF Academy Graduation Party!

32 (19.5%)

Lots of solar interference all of a sudden.

3 (1.8%)

That was awful, Station!

0 (0%)

Don't apologize to me, go apologize to Lt. Potter. AND MEAN IT!

5 (3%)

And give Marigold a holo-pony!

38 (23.2%)

oh my god

22 (13.4%)

Total Members Voted: 64

[Is it cold in here?]

Hannelore with actual command authority would make me start thinking "I'm DJ Phalliz, and I'm here to say, kill your friends, kill them with explosive decompression".

Momo had holographic projection equipment in her old chassis, and presumably in the new one since it's a high end model. Why couldn't Marigirl have had a holo-pony all along?

[Madmartigan]

Holo ponies? 

Marten should ask for holo dinosaur. 

Always love it when Hanners goes into control mode.  Cute.

And speaking of Starship Troopers.  I know it is cliche, but I wanna see a joke about that.

Scratch that.

I want Trekkie zings already.  Surprised there hasn't been a joke about Data.

[jwhouk]

Well, there hasn't been anyone similar to Data yet.

Just the Doctor and Andromeda.

...Oh boy, did I just say that?

What was the MOMENT... OF... THE WEEK???

Space Station Hannerdad!    - 2 (2.2%)
Uh, were we supposed to pass it?    - 0 (0%)
Just one more orbit, I promise.    - 1 (1.1%)
BAD Spaceship!    - 10 (11.2%)
Docking completed...    - 0 (0%)
We just have to go up to the hub bridge...    - 0 (0%)
Race you there!    - 0 (0%)
Marten, no! You still have all your -    - 1 (1.1%)
- mass. BERF    - 6 (6.7%)
Hello, Station!    - 1 (1.1%)
Aren't there any, um, PEOPLE?    - 0 (0%)
128 researchers, security, and support personnel oboard    - 0 (0%)
Station, Spaceship... notice a pattern    - 0 (0%)
Hannelore went through a descriptivist phase...    - 1 (1.1%)
I called my dad "Sceince Daddy" until I was 17.    - 7 (7.9%)
Notorious Marten Reed (ugh I hate MC Hammer)    - 2 (2.2%)
Lieutenant Potter.    - 3 (3.4%)
US Military takes their duties more seriously than they ought.    - 1 (1.1%)
Station, I'm just trying to do my job.    - 0 (0%)
Fine, fine... Okay... what?    - 0 (0%)
USAF Academy Graduation Party!    - 17 (19.1%)
Lots of solar interference all of a sudden.    - 1 (1.1%)
That was awful, Station!    - 0 (0%)
Don't apologize to me, go apologize to Lt. Potter. AND MEAN IT!    - 5 (5.6%)
And give Marigold a holo-pony!    - 21 (23.6%)
oh my god    - 10 (11.2%)

Total Voters: 34

[Kugai]

I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   


Bad Station.  Mamma spank!

And why a Holo-Pony?  Wouldn't a Holo version of her favorite Manga/Anime character be better?     

[Throg]

I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   

Bad Station.  Mamma spank!

And why a Holo-Pony?  Wouldn't a Holo version of her favorite Manga/Anime character be better?     

Hanners + bad day + space station: "I'm DJ Hanners / and i'm here to say / ORBITAL LAAAAAAAASER"

[DSL]

I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   


Bad Station.  Mamma spank!

And why a Holo-Pony?  Wouldn't a Holo version of her favorite Manga/Anime character be better?     

Well, Hanners was a little upset, and probably headed back toward her comfort zone. Might have caught herself before she said "Holo-kitty." Had she given it a little more thought, she would have told Station to holo-simulate Sousuke or Ichiro.

Wonder what she'd have ordered up for Marten? Besides the obvious, I mean.

[Mr_Rose]

If anyone's staying, it's Marten, but only as long as lieutenant Potter is on deployment up there. :p

As for Hanners and her mysterious ability to get what she wants from Station and Spaceship, I don't think she does technically have command authority…it's just that disobeying her is unthinkable to the AIs, much as it would be to a large chunk of the forums.

[jmucchiello]

I could sort of see Marigold getting put on the bus as a gigantic act of risk taking/shaiking up the status quo given that she's very popular.  But Hannelore?  I think you'd have an all out revolt if she was to leave the series.  Unless of course the intent was to give her a spinoff or something, which given the workload QC already is I can't see happening.

But it wouldn't really be interesting to see Hanners on the space station. As we've already seen, she's in her element. It takes away from what makes people care about her, her vulnerability. (This assumes we would see her on the station sometimes. Or actually assumes that because she's OKAY we wouldn't see her on the station sometimes.)

[ecstaticjoy]

I want a holo-pony!

[Sorflakne]

I learned to ride horse at the age of five on an ornery pony we had.  

Yeah, I'm a guy, and I had a pony as a kid, what of it?

*broniefist*

[cesariojpn]

Marten should ask for holo dinosaur.

No, a Holo 1952 Telecaster.

[ChaosWolf]

"oh my god" is gonna be the QC version of the MLP fandom and Fluttershy's "yay".  Calling it now.

[jwhouk]

"oh my god" is gonna be the QC version of the MLP fandom and Fluttershy's "yay".  Calling it now.

And there will be absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[Akima]

As for Hanners and her mysterious ability to get what she wants from Station and Spaceship, I don't think she does technically have command authority…it's just that disobeying her is unthinkable to the AIs, much as it would be to a large chunk of the forums.

Hannelore is their princess. Trivialities like chain of command doen't come into it.

I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   

Isn't she everyone's hero?

[Is it cold in here?]

RenewMan, would you be willing to add your observations about uniforms to the QC wiki?

[iduguphergrave]

I can practically hear Mar-bear's omg in the last panel. I likey 

Holo ponies? 

Marten should ask for holo dinosaur. 

Station: No, last time we tried that, we somehow summoned a tiny one that made espresso. Odd.

[Renewman]

RenewMan, would you be willing to add your observations about uniforms to the QC wiki?

Haha! Sure, I'd be delighted to add my commentary. Also, I apologize for my outburst about uniforms. When you've been brainwashed as long as I have about rules and regulations, one becomes a little irate to see things misinterpreted as such. Of course this is QCverse where everything isn't going to make sense. I'll learn to remember hat next time I have a spaz attack. 

[Is it cold in here?]

I can practically hear Mar-bear's omg in the last panel. I likey 

Holo ponies? 

Marten should ask for holo dinosaur. 

Station: No, last time we tried that, we somehow summoned a tiny one that made espresso. Odd.

<applause>

[pwhodges]

This space station arc is gonna go longer than I thought it would, it is a fire hose of ideas.

The reason it's going longer than I thought is I actually know where I'm going with it! There's just a lot of stuff I gotta set up. HEHEHEH

And we're still only arriving anyway!

Also:

I've only ever seen one episode of MLP, so I don't think I qualify as a "brony" or whatever. They're fun to draw though.

[iduguphergrave]

I can practically hear Mar-bear's omg in the last panel. I likey 

Holo ponies? 

Marten should ask for holo dinosaur. 

Station: No, last time we tried that, we somehow summoned a tiny one that made espresso. Odd.

<applause>

*bows* thank yew 

[Andy147]

As for Hanners and her mysterious ability to get what she wants from Station and Spaceship, I don't think she does technically have command authority…it's just that disobeying her is unthinkable to the AIs, much as it would be to a large chunk of the forums.

Hannelore is their princess. Trivialities like chain of command doen't come into it.

I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   

Isn't she everyone's hero?

Nope. Don't like horror films, never seen it.

[Skewbrow]

I can practically hear Mar-bear's omg in the last panel. I likey 

Holo ponies? 

Marten should ask for holo dinosaur. 

Station: No, last time we tried that, we somehow summoned a tiny one that made espresso. Odd.

Didn't want to save that for the next Caption thread?

[jwhouk]

RenewMan, would you be willing to add your observations about uniforms to the QC wiki?

Haha! Sure, I'd be delighted to add my commentary. Also, I apologize for my outburst about uniforms. When you've been brainwashed as long as I have about rules and regulations, one becomes a little irate to see things misinterpreted as such. Of course this is QCverse where everything isn't going to make sense. I'll learn to remember hat next time I have a spaz attack. 

Great; you can add your commentary to Lt. Potter's entry!

[Method of Madness]

As for Hanners and her mysterious ability to get what she wants from Station and Spaceship, I don't think she does technically have command authority…it's just that disobeying her is unthinkable to the AIs, much as it would be to a large chunk of the forums.

Hannelore is their princess. Trivialities like chain of command doen't come into it.

I wonder if one of Hanners heros is Ellen Ripley?   

Isn't she everyone's hero?

Nope. Don't like horror films, never seen it.

The second one's more of an action film than a horror film.  The first one's the horror film (and the far better one, but that's a discussion for another place.)

[Mr_Rose]

Alien is an excellent suspense thriller/horror flick
Aliens is an excellent action thriller with horror overtones
They are both at or near the top of their respective games

Which one is "better" is and always will be subjective and based mostly on which genre you prefer.
What they are definitely both, is iconic cultural artefacts.
It is a pity the third one was so poorly received that they never made another one, isn't it?

[Method of Madness]

To be fair, the Bourne movies took almost nothing from the books they were based on, and that arguably made them significantly better.

[Kugai]

To be fair, the Bourne movies took almost nothing from the books they were based on, and that arguably made them significantly better.

And I agree with you on that point MM, the Bourne films were damned good.

That doesn't excuse Verhoven's butchery

Nor De Laurentis for his murdering of Dune in that god awful film a few years back

[Earin]

Alien is an excellent suspense thriller/horror flick
Aliens is an excellent action thriller with horror overtones
They are both at or near the top of their respective games

Which one is "better" is and always will be subjective and based mostly on which genre you prefer.
What they are definitely both, is iconic cultural artefacts.
It is a pity the third one was so poorly received that they never made another one, isn't it?

In my mind, the third one was a faithful adaptation of the graphic novel bit where they meet another one of the aliens that flew the ship from the original.

[jwhouk]

The Winslow has arrived.

I get what Jeph said about the plushes - they're probably a lot smaller than they would be IRL. Either that or Hanners and the rest of the cast are a bunch of midgets.

[dreed]

Plus, the military is probably among the best if not the best of hannerdad's customers... he probably goes a long way to keep them happy, including acceding to rules n regs that would otherwise be considered asinine or stupidly inappropriate given the locale and technologies involved. He knows which side his bread's buttered on.

seeing how he created AI and probably many many of QC crazy tech I believe it is the other way around. Military go a long way to keep him happy allowing him to have a space station of his own and just keep small military personnel just in case and maybe protection from other countries.

[gangler]

He did a lot of great stuff, but no matter how good you are at your job you're always replaceable. That being said Hannerdad is probably in a position now where he could replace his employers as easily as they could replace him. Relations are probably pretty delicate on both ends.

[DSL]

According to (Jeph writing dialogue for) Hannelore, HannerDad's made his pile and works on what he wants, when he wants. My guess pending further revelations is that Lt. Potter and Co. are there to keep an eye on DefenseNet and the KillSats.

[jwhouk]

Assuming we're about in the same calendar time frame as QC, the Station was probably built sometime in the early-to-mid 1990's, possibly even during Desert Storm  - which is assuming DS actually happened in the QCverse. I've never wanted to ask Jeph specifically if 9/11 actually happened in the QCverse, but you can infer from the 1999 AI Rights article Momo was reading that it didn't.

I wonder if Jeph's ever timelined out what happened when in the QC Universe (including birthdates and such of our main characters, like Marten, Faye, Dora and Hanners).

[jwhouk]

What was the MOMENT... OF... THE WEEK???

Space Station Hannerdad!    - 3 (2%)
Uh, were we supposed to pass it?    - 1 (0.7%)
Just one more orbit, I promise.    - 1 (0.7%)
BAD Spaceship!    - 12 (8.1%)
Docking completed...    - 2 (1.4%)
We just have to go up to the hub bridge...    - 0 (0%)
Race you there!    - 1 (0.7%)
Marten, no! You still have all your -    - 1 (0.7%)
- mass. BERF    - 13 (8.8%)
Hello, Station!    - 1 (0.7%)
Aren't there any, um, PEOPLE?    - 0 (0%)
128 researchers, security, and support personnel on board    - 0 (0%)
Station, Spaceship... notice a pattern    - 0 (0%)
Hannelore went through a descriptivist phase...    - 2 (1.4%)
I called my dad "Sceince Daddy" until I was 17.    - 11 (7.4%)
Notorious Marten Reed (ugh I hate MC Hammer)    - 3 (2%)
Lieutenant Potter.    - 5 (3.4%)
US Military takes their duties more seriously than they ought.    - 1 (0.7%)
Station, I'm just trying to do my job.    - 0 (0%)
Fine, fine... Okay... what?    - 0 (0%)
USAF Academy Graduation Party!    - 29 (19.6%)
Lots of solar interference all of a sudden.    - 2 (1.4%)
That was awful, Station!    - 0 (0%)
Don't apologize to me, go apologize to Lt. Potter. AND MEAN IT!    - 5 (3.4%)
And give Marigold a holo-pony!    - 34 (23%)
oh my god    - 21 (14.2%)

Total Voters: 56

[Is it cold in here?]

OK, I think I've got all the discussion that was exclusively about Starship Troopers into Enjoy.

[Earin]

Assuming we're about in the same calendar time frame as QC, the Station was probably built sometime in the early-to-mid 1990's, possibly even during Desert Storm  - which is assuming DS actually happened in the QCverse. I've never wanted to ask Jeph specifically if 9/11 actually happened in the QCverse, but you can infer from the 1999 AI Rights article Momo was reading that it didn't.

The real question is whether Walternate is the Secretary of Defense.

[zmeiat_joro]

Wonder what she'd have ordered up for Marten? Besides the obvious, I mean.

I'm really drawing a blank here. What do you mean? I don't think he would be able to actually play a holo-guitar, if that's what you mean?

[Is it cold in here?]

I wonder if Jeph's ever timelined out what happened when in the QC Universe (including birthdates and such of our main characters, like Marten, Faye, Dora and Hanners).

It looks and sounds like he hasn't gone for that kind of world building.

[Binary]

...Lt. Potter and Co. are there to keep an eye on DefenseNet and the KillSats.

'DefenseNet and the KillSats' is the name of my 'Kilburn and the High Roads' cover band.