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On DS9, they usually used the correct term inertial dampers. Whereas on TNG they couldn’t keep the two terms straight.
Ha, I never actually paid attention to that. I think the fact that I’m not a native English speaker could be why “dampener” never sounded weird to me.
Although looks like the Oxford English Dictionary says both have the meaning “thing or person that has a restraining or subduing effect”, so I guess they’d both be correct in that sense?
The inertial dampeners are only used when someone puts their sonic shower in “wet” mode.
Through idiomatic usage, dampener has taken the same meaning as damper, but as my dynamics professor was fond of saying, one of them terms means to slow motion, the other means to get something wet.
The Founders are descended from Jeffrey Combs.
Humans, Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans are descended from Jeffrey Combs
What door?
I, uh… what?
I’m such an idiot. I was thinking of Jeffrey Wright lol.
Don’t mind melol and here I was thinking I had a gap in my Trek trek meme knowledge.
Also, don’t be too hard on yourself: considering the frankly ridiculous amount of information that we modern humans cram into our craniums, tripping up on an actor’s name is prettty minor 😀
