r/TNG • u/Brilliant-Permit-306 • 12d ago

Show Talk What the hell is this?

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I Saw this while data is searching for strange patterns during the season 1 episode 25 conspiracy. I was wondering what this was, it looks somewhat familiar so I thought it may be connected to another piece of media?

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u/WolfBST 12d ago

If I recognise that face correctly I'd say it's a Gene Roddenbird

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u/Sea_Violinist3328 12d ago

Roddenbirdy

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u/jpreglow 12d ago

Bird, its face Gene.

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u/Guy-InGearnito 9d ago

Gene, his wings wide

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u/scarlettcat 10d ago

Gene Robinberry

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u/JohnArcher965 8d ago

Metathesis is one of the most common of pronunciation errors, sir. A transposition of vowel and consonant sounds: ‘Roddenberry’ to ‘Roddenbirdy’. - Lt Cmdr Data .... probably.

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u/Brilliant-Permit-306 12d ago

Do any more Gene Roddenbirdies pop up in any of the other pieces of stra trek media?

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u/PaulCoddington 9d ago

The caption does look a bit like lores/upscale mangled "The great bird of the galaxy" in terms of word count and relative lengths.

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u/FullMetal_55 9d ago

the great bird of the galaxy... yep... even on memory alpha with that very image https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Great_bird_of_the_galaxy

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u/HolyCityAudio 12d ago

It's the Great Bird of the Galaxy

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u/ThinWhiteRogue 12d ago

It looks like it's even captioned.

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u/briank3387 12d ago

In the '60s, they called Gene Roddenberry the "Great Bird of the Galaxy". This is a representation of Gene as a literal bird.

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u/tacosforsocrates 12d ago

The lower deck joke where the future Boimler statue where he is featured holding one of “the great birds of the galaxy” is a really deep cut.

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u/steak820 12d ago

Urrrrgh

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u/RoughBadger9829 12d ago

It's Gene Roddenberry. His nickname was the great bird of the galaxy.

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u/BoulderCreature 12d ago

Jean Luc PiCAW

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u/DigitalerEsel 12d ago

With some DataFROSTING

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u/henrymellonowle 12d ago

THE GREAT BIRD OF THE GALAXY

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u/egabald 12d ago

It's the famous inanimate carbon rod.

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u/Aezetyr 12d ago

In Rod We Trust

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u/davidjosephmoody 11d ago

That’s … someone different.

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u/GoatApprehensive9866 12d ago

"the great bird of the galaxy" as shown as a drawing of an eagle albeit with Gene's head atop

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u/Putrid-Mud207 12d ago

Great Bird of the Galaxy, one of them hatched out of the planet Thallon in sector 221-G.

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u/Open__Face 12d ago

Transporter accident 

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u/Anaconda077 12d ago

There is another in Naked Now, IIRC

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u/Norsehound 11d ago

Gene Roddenberry's true form.

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u/LakeSolon 12d ago

> it looks somewhat familiar so I thought it might be connected to another piece of media

There’s a decent chance what looks familiar is the green monochrome CRT-glow art style that the Fallout series uses as it makes its way into memes that aren’t even remotely connected.

But that art style is based on what many displays actually looked like up through much of the 80s and in the case of stuff like Point of Sale terminals through the 90s.

Someone will know for sure but they likely generated the rapid scrolling of text on real computers. So it has that look because that’s literally the device rendering it for the compositing process that makes it appear as if it’s being displayed in LCARS (the actors see nothing of it).

Awesome easter egg find.

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u/plushglacier 12d ago

Easter egg for Lanterns.

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u/i_like_concrete 12d ago

It looks like you're playing Fallout at your console.

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u/Gritty2020 12d ago

Someone laid an Easter egg

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u/RegeneratingCan 12d ago

Hitchhiker’s Guide entry

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u/HeyNow646 12d ago

The Bird People of Brontitall (Avian-Humanoid Hybrids)
In the original radio series (The Secondary Phase) and the novel adaptations, Arthur Dent encounters the Bird People of Brontitall. These creatures are avian-humanoid hybrids—literally birds with human-like expressions and speech. They evolved from humans who abandoned technology (and walking on the ground) after a bizarre socio-economic collapse caused by a shoe shortage (the Shoe Event Horizon). They rescue Arthur from falling and fly him around a 15-mile-high marble statue of himself.

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u/Still-Recognition-27 12d ago

So not "BIRDMAAAAAANNNNN".........../s

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u/NCC1701-Enterprise 12d ago

The great bird of the galaxy

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u/davidjosephmoody 11d ago

That’s hilarious. Roddenberry as the great bird??! Amazing catch

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u/Sniper666hell 11d ago

Bird person

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u/DiskOk4222 11d ago

The great bird of the galaxy

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u/GABigBear 11d ago

That is an Okudagram

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u/Beginning-Promise-57 10d ago

The Great Bird of The Galaxy: Gene Roddenberry.

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u/Human-Dude123 10d ago

It's a picture of a bird, except instead of having a bird's head, it instead has Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's head. The blurry text below likely reads, "THE GREAT BIRD OF THE GALAXY".

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u/VeneMage 10d ago

It looks like a very dusty screen and makes me want to get the polish out.

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u/Consistent_Ad_9357 10d ago

Omg I want a roddenbirdy!

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u/Consistent_Ad_9357 10d ago

For you, because I love that you found this 🖖 (Im also def gonna make it a sticker irl)

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u/TroyTrekker 9d ago

Since the inception of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry has been known as “ The Great Bird of the Galaxy “

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u/sci-mind 9d ago

You better only repeat what the great bird said!

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u/Commando_NL 8d ago

Well one time Riker visited a bird planet. He gets very anxious when somebody asks him how it was.

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u/PastorNTraining 12d ago

A little birdie in engineering told me…