Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

rsyring

Thanks for doing something to honor him. I was bummed we didn't get a black bar for him today here on HN (I know he's not STEM but honorary STEM?). The game might be too hard? I have watched A LOT of TNG and didn't make the first few guesses correctly and then bailed out.

nekusar

That's a dumb game. I know the first one I got was the anachronistic Irish and the clones. No clue of the episode name. I know it's 2nd season cause it's Pulaski as doctor. I liked her over Crusher. And she called the clones' bluff immediately!

Am4TIfIsER0ppos

Is it cheating when you can search for a plot element you know from the episode but have no idea of the title? For example: The Big Goodbye. A newspaper suggests either the holodeck or time travel but you can merely enter "holodeck" and get a list of a dozen candidates. Sub Rosa and "grandmother"? Shame you can't search for "vasquez rocks"

mijowi

Maybe I’m not enough of a Trekkie, but I feel multiple choice would be good here.

karim79

It's great just a bit toooo hard. But it's for trekkies so I'm not going to judge, I like Star Trek but I can't say that I'm anywhere as close to being a hardcore trekky, I'm still learning and getting into it. I'm happy to see work like this and I'm also curious as to how you got all the screenshot content. Was that through scraping or ffmpeg going through video content or what? I'm deeply curious. Additionally, I think there (might) be a decent vibe-coded game about the game Oblivion and the intro sequence where Patrick Stewart plays the Emperor Uriel. His presence in Oblivion was far too short. We can perhaps honour him by extending the initial sequences of the game, with a game. Idea, methinks. Edit: Trekkies->trekky

Arainach

I appreciate this. The full text search is fairly crucial, as while I've seen the entire series more than once I cannot for the life of me remember "the name of the episode where the aliens pretending to be dumb kidnap Geordi", but the search is good enough to get there without being too obvious.

joeguilmette

i watched TNG through when it aired as a child, and then again probably every other year since. i dont know anyone IRL who has seen or consumed more TNG, or loved it more than i do i couldnt get a single one right lol

asciimov

Thanks for this! Back when TNG was on TV on the regular my wife would play a game with me, she’d flip over to TNG and pause the video, then I had to describe the episode well enough to match the guide description. I could usually get it as long as it wasn’t just a still of the Enterprise. Most of these I can get in one or two guesses through key word search, I do not have all the episodes titles memorized.

edoceo

Eyes in the dark...one moon circles

temporallobe

As a TNG fanatic since it first aired in ‘87 I’m surprised I didn’t get more right, but I got 60%. I missed the one about the alien race who developed the technology where you could step through a portal into another place in the galaxy (“Contagion”). I thought the race was the Iconians but it wasn’t in the episode description for some reason. Love the game! Can I ask how you made this so quickly?

havaloc

Shoutout for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(podca... A goofy, often NSFW podcast by two hosts who really like Star Trek.

loveandhelp

I wanna fall in love. But we never had a chance to meet that Jean Luc Picard because that was a character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKq7Aax-hI