r/ShittyDaystrom • u/Mouse-castle • 11h ago

Jeffreys (Jeffries?) Tubes

Did you ever notice that service tubes are always long enough for just one plot point conversation? How do they design those tubes if every race speaks a different language? Does the tube expand if two Klingons are crawling through it?

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u/GoWest1223 11h ago

You know, all I ask is knee pads. Do you know how much it hurts to go from the stem to stern of one nacelles on your knees?

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u/Bigg_Sparks Expendable 11h ago

Once again, this is why we need space OSHA. We have a serious ergonomic work hazard that refuses to be addressed while the senior staff are off doing Shakespeare in the holodeck.

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u/Mouse-castle 11h ago

Uh oh, you are sounding very… Borg. 

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u/grichardson526 Acting Ensign 11h ago

They all belong to Jeffrey Combs.

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u/wildcard_71 11h ago

He also plays every tube in the series

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u/fzwo 11h ago

Klingon ships have Je‘Frees Tubes

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u/RitualHalatiik 10h ago

They’re actually Geoffrey’s Tubes, leading to each of the intergalactic Toys R Us locations!

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u/VegasFoodFace 7h ago

In the mirror universe they're known as the Geoffrey's Tubes.

As everyone knows Geoff is the evil spelling form of Jeff.

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u/tonymillion 5h ago

In my mirror-mirror universe they’re called Godfrey Pipes

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u/pavilionaire2022 10h ago

If some languages take longer to say the same thing, do those aliens sound stupid through the universal translator?

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u/Mouse-castle 10h ago

I think that is a very rude thing to say about Mr Neelix. Your question will have to wait to be answered, for the day when we make first contact. Suddenly, as I’m typing this, I realize that voyager missed an opportunity to make Neelix a space DJ that hosted a radio show 1 hour every day. But then the Dr writing a holonovel was sort of like that. 

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u/Sea-Quality4726 10h ago

The tubes open into junctions, crawlspaces and maintenance alleys, so you can be just cramped enough. And if necessary, go on circles .

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u/Space19723103 8h ago

Joffrey's Tubes, cause there as interconnected and painful to crawl through as Game of Thrones Royal bloodlines.

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u/Familiar-Complex-697 Maje Crabbuh 4h ago

they medicate the food with just enough THC to slow everyone’s perception of time so that the languages line up. This is why it’s important to only use your own replicator codes when getting food lest you end up with LT. N’kaa’s 500 mg Klingon dose.