24th century pillows

Posted by happydude7422@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 41 comments

Pillows (sometimes the exact same one) made from the same shiny colourful material are seen several times aboard the USS Enterprise-D (#StarTrekTNG's "The Child"↖️, "The Survivors"↗️, "The Offspring"➡️, "Night Terrors"↙️, "Half a Life"↘️) but also on Rutia IV ("The High Ground"⬅️).

By Jorg hillebrand

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EmbarrassedPaper7758@reddit

Computer, pillow. Shiny

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

Me: Computer, can you replicate me a nice, big, soft, squishy pillow that isn't shiny?

Computer: ... ... ... ... I'm sorry. That is not within the replicator's ability. Please provide specifications.

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KhajiitPaw@reddit

Computer doesn't apologise to anyone 💅

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

Computer is very sorry about the pillows. It knows that they're shit.

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SirGuy11@reddit

It’s almost like they used the same property department and set designers for multiple episodes of the series! 😆

But yeah, the shimmery holographic rainbow thing seemed to be a trend. Better than the super flat ones on DS9, that may well have been made out of retread rubber. 🤓

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HTired89@reddit

Surprised Wesley didn't wear one as a jumper tbh

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Maximum_Web9072@reddit

I think when they ran out of ideas for how to make something look futuristic, they just trotted out the glittery/metallic/holographic fabric and called it a day. Like the fencing outfits are just regular fencing outfits but with glitter XD

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HittingSmoke@reddit

Or like the luggage. Let's make it angular and totally impractical to store stuff in!

I always always really enjoy the spacification of flashlights in scifi. Got to let people know we're in the distant future by making the flashlight dimmer and stupid to hold.

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FuckIPLaw@reddit

Flashlights were just actually that dim back then. It was so bad that a lot of the time movies and TV shows would rig up a car headlight bulb inside of a flashlight body and run a hidden wire going off to a 12 volt battery through the actor's sleeve, just to make it turn up well on camera.

These days, well, I've got a light that takes a single 3.7 volt AA that's brighter than one of those cigarette lighter powered spot lights would have been back then. And it's not even really into the hobbyist grade stuff.

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trixbler@reddit

Oh the stupid wrist mounted lights drove me crazy! You no longer just need to angle your hand towards what you want to see, you have to hold your whole arm out stiffly like you’re practicing for a nazi parade. Incredibly impractical.

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dantheplanman1986@reddit

That's why I liked on Babylon 5 when the flashlight Sinclair grabbed coulda come from the camping section at a box store

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andychef@reddit

One cool thing about the remaster is that you can see some of the gorgeous fabrics the costume department used. For example, I love the casino-carpet pattern in Romulan uniforms. And the dresses for Time's Arrow are simply gorgeous period work

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Leopold_Darkworth@reddit

I think some of these were actually emergency survival blankets. They're shiny because they're supposed to be reflective.

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BigFitMama@reddit

The Pillowtron 3000 is a state of art nanite reactive head support device with reflective heat and cooling function out of Ferengar.

(Pillowtron takes no responsibility if nanites are exposed to cosmic waves and impregnates the ship's counselor.)

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KhajiitPaw@reddit

I heard the first part in Majel Barett's computer voice

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CaptainsYacht@reddit

In the TNG epispde "Suddenly Human" where the crew finds a human boy raised by Tamarians, they try to expose the kid to human culture until he breaks into Picard's quarters and stabs him in the chest.

My take from that has always been that Picard's pillow looked hella uncomfortable. It was too big and put his neck at a very uncomfortable angle. Like, wtf? I'd rather be stabbed if that were my only pillow option.

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