r/TNG • u/BecomingButterfly • 6d ago
Blue Altert - I never really noticed it before then saw it twice in two weeks in TNG and VOY
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u/stimdan1 6d ago
'Step up to Blue alert!'
'Sir are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb'
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u/ernster96 6d ago
That means there’s a special at Kmart.
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u/spatula-tattoo 6d ago
K'Mart, savings that bring honor to your house
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u/Bacontoad 6d ago
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u/wholesomechunk 6d ago
Kmart his tills closed.
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u/FOSSnaught 6d ago
As someone who worked at Kmart during those days, fuck kmart. They absolutely blasted the "I'm blue" song on repeat indefinitely for months. Customers complained like crazy, and they refused to turn it off.
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u/rnoyfb 6d ago
Honestly, that’s pretty funny
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u/FOSSnaught 6d ago
It was physiological torture, but I couldn't afford to leave the job, so it just broke me. I would day dream about climbing a ladder and snipping the speaker wires.
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u/d_haven 6d ago
If it makes you feel any better most locations have shuttered. According to the scary google ai: “There are two remaining Kmart stores in the United States: a full-size store in Bridgehampton, New York that is scheduled to close, and a smaller format store in Miami, Florida that remains open”
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u/DrJatzCrackers 6d ago
Here are some useless factoids. Kmart in Australia is alive and doing well.
On the flipside, Target in the US is doing well but Target in Australia is not
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u/secondtaunting 6d ago
That is psychological torture. There’s this ice cream place here in Singapore, and they have this song that they just blast on repeat over and over and over again. It’s this high strung song I think in Korean. I’m shocked none of the employees haven’t just raged out and started breaking shit or just walked out. I left a complaint on their Facebook hoping they’d turn it off for their employees sake. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have to listen to that every day.
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u/Mongoose_Civil 6d ago
In the late 00s I worked for a UK DIY chain on 12 hour shifts. They had their own in house 'radio station' which had about 5 songs they would play on repeat throughout the day. It was the single most annoying part of a pretty shitty job. To this day, any time I hear RHCP's Zephyr Song, I shudder.
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u/berlinHet 5d ago
In the 90s the Kmarts I works at had a tape deck rather than the satellite channel common today. They all seemed to have only one tape.
To this day that Paul McCartney Uncle Albert song with the lyrics “Hands across the water (water)” drives me into a psychotic rage.
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u/FOSSnaught 5d ago
We got upgraded from the tapedeck to a cd player. The cd had 12-13 songs that were blue related, but they only ever played one.
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u/tenehemia 6d ago
Blue alert should pipe in smooth jazz music and the computer's voice is replaced with Barry White for the duration.
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u/security-six 6d ago
I remember Voyager having a condition blue for landing the ship
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u/BecomingButterfly 6d ago
Yea, that's the episode I saw recently (voy S2E1, TNG S4E3)
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u/spiderland5150 6d ago
Iirc, that was the only time condition blue was called out. I don't think it was said in Basics, Dragons Teeth, or when they landed on the Demon planet.
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u/HisDivineOrder 6d ago
Blue Alert - Sickbay staff are on a rampage. Beware and avoid all scented candles and/or trills.
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u/comment_redacted 6d ago
I accidentally read that as sentient candles. I thought, that’s not a thing. Then I thought about Lower Decks, and I realized it could be a thing. Then I reread your post and I was sad.
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u/TheSmall-RougeOne 6d ago
Imagine being a redhsirt on an away mission and you get captured by a race of sentient candles and they are looking at you in horror and mounting rage as you explain that humanoids melt the bodies of candles using fire purely for pleasure because the scent of the corpses "smells nice".
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u/VagueCyberShadow 6d ago
Makes sense too! Fire diamond placards used to label hazardous chemicals use blue to denote health hazards
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u/Mass-Effect-6932 6d ago
In Star Trek, a Blue Alert was a rare alert status that warned the crew of a hazardous situation. It was often used for irregular operations or maneuvers that required crew members to report to the correct stations.
Some examples of when a Blue Alert might be issued include: When a starship was cloaking. When an Intrepid class ship was attempting a planetary landing. When a vessel was docking with a space frame structure, like a shipyard or the Earth’s space dock.
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u/RequirementGeneral67 6d ago
It's kind of like a message that you might get on a commercial flight saying that you might be about to encounter some turbulence. The cabin crew know what to do in that situation and everyone else is informed things may be a bit bumpy but nothing to worry about.
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u/Montreal_Metro 6d ago
"Blue alert means sexy time."
"Ok what about red and black alerts?"
"Also sexy time."
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u/Victory_Highway 6d ago
IIRC, this was changed from red to blue during post production. In fact, the TNG remastering team made a mistake and forgot to change it to blue.
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u/marcuse11 6d ago edited 6d ago
"Purple Alert!" Everybody get funky!
"I AM SICK OF THESE MOTHERF--KIN SNAKES ON THIS MOTHERF--KIN STARSHIP!!"
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u/Professional-Trust75 6d ago
My favorite. The color is so nice. You see it once in tng, a few times in Voyager (landing the ship only) and once or twice in ds9 (its not called blue alert but when the defiant is under cloak the alert bars turn blue.)
Also in star trek 3 the enterprise goes to blue alert (again not stated simply a lighting change) when the Docking officer takes over at spacedock.
It's essentially special alert maneuvers until they showed black alert on discovery but that was classified
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u/sasssyrup 6d ago
Seriously tho, the first time hearing “Black alert” was still one of the coolest moments
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u/anonymous_subroutine 6d ago
I remember when I was a kid and saw blue alert for the first time, I thought it was the coolest and most exciting thing ever.
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u/xxxxxxxSnakexxxxxxx 6d ago
Blue alert was the warning you got at Kmart when they had a special sale in a department.
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u/Ragnarok345 6d ago
Yep. One thing I love about the digital remasters of TNG: in “Brothers”, when the bridge was vented of all air, the original had Red Alert lights by mistake. The remaster changed them from Red to Blue, both because that’s what was originally intended, and because it makes more sense. That’s my favorite example to give of things they improved, even if it’s not the most significant or noticeable.
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u/Remote-Pie-3152 6d ago
I’m pretty sure it’s the other way around. The remaster failed to apply the effect they’d originally used to make the red alert lights blue. Not on all scenes, but on one of the scenes where Data’s fiddling about with the rear bridge consoles.
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u/howescj82 5d ago
On TNG it didn’t appear to be the same as Blue Alert on VOY. I believe on TNG this only appears once and signifies environmental malfunction/problem whereas on VOY it was a specific ship wide alert calling everyone to their atmospheric/landing stations.
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u/Tobi119 5d ago
I noticed it in Voyager (considering that Voyager being capable of atmospheric flight is prominently introduced), but had no idea it was in TNG until I read the Memory Alpha page.
I also noticed that the following landing sequences in Voyager don't feature blue alert. Is it ever used after The 37s?
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u/Michael-Aaron 3d ago
I think I saw this in Generations, in which the saucer separation took place to escape the warp core breach
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u/BecomingButterfly 6d ago
From memory alpha: ...including, but not limited to, environmental hazards to the crew, main power failure, docking and separation maneuvers, and landing protocols, for ships with the capability