From: mquirk@MIT.EDU Date: Wed, 09 Feb 94 20:53:24 EST Star Trek: The Next Generation The Canonical Drinking Game =========================================================================== Requirements: Episode(s) of ST:TNG This list People (the more the merrier) Beverages of your choice Instructions: Simple. Watch the show, and whenever a condition is met, take the appropriate number of drinks. The definition of "drink" should be decided before game play starts. Usually, a good mouthful will suffice. Optional rules are included at the end of the list for fun variations on the "standard" game. Compiler's Note: I would advise taking some time before game play starts to decide which conditions to use and which to ignore. Remember that this list is canonical, so you probably will _not_ want to use them all (especially with a new episode, since you'll spend all your time reading the list, rather than watching). Please send any corrections, suggestions, requests, submissions, flames, etc. to the address listed above. =========================================================================== Category: Condition : Number of Drinks =========================================================================== General : "Open hailing frequencies" : 1 Quotes : "Medical emergency" : 1 : "Belay that order" : 1 : "Energize" : 1 : "Hell", "Damn" and other swearing. : 1 : SEE ALSO: Riker's special swearing rules. : : "It's not like anything I've ever seen before": 1 : "Impossible" : 1 : "Impossible" while watching the "impossible" : 2 : "Shut up, Wesley" : 3 : "On screen" : 1 : "Understood" : 1 : "Set phasers on..." : 1 : "Acknowledged" : 1 : "Priority One" : 1 : "Just a little more time...!" : 1 : "Eastern/Western/Southern/Northern Continent" : 2 : "The Klingon Home Planet" or other reference : : without actually giving it a name : 2 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- General : A female crewmember has flawless makeup after : Actions : she's been put through the ringer : 1 : A crewmember straightens his/her uniform : 1 ea. : SEE ALSO: Picard's special uniform rules. : : A crewmember drinks (outside of 10 Forward) : 1 ea. : SEE ALSO: Picard's special drinking rules.: : A bridge officer is seen in casual clothes : 1 ea. : SEE ALSO: Picard's & Beverly's special : : clothing rules. : : A bridge officer is seen in dress uniform : 1 ea. : "Ensign Ethnic" or "Ensign Buxom" gets a line : 1 : Someone is referred to by their first name : 1 : First names while sexual tension present : 2 : The sarcophagus is used in sickbay : 2 : Nobody leaves the ship, but we still see more : : than one room of the alien ship/planet/etc: 2 : The same matte painting of an alien planet is : : used after each commercial break : 1 : The matte painting has a moving ground vehicle: 2 : Transporter Room 3 is used : 1 : A shuttlecraft appears unsafe : 1 : Someone reads a book : 1 : Mention of dilithium crystals : 1 : Someone adopts a persona (Dixon Hill, Sherlock: : Holmes, etc.) : 1 ea. : Someone receives a shot : 1 : Someone receives a shot from a non-medical : : officer : 2 : A new alien has latex on its forehead : 1 : A new alien also has differently shaped hands : 1 : A new alien doesn't have latex on its forehead: 2 : Someone preaches the Prime Directive : 1 : Someone other than Picard preaches the P.D. : 2 : Someone preaches about "Humanity's Unique : : Potential" : 1 : An "Old Earth Saying" is brought up : 1 : A member of the bridge crew takes over a : : by pushing someone out of the way : 2 : Someone wakes up from a nightmare : 1 : The bridge crew contemplates mutiny : 3 : The holodeck appears in its "natural" state : 2 : Holodeck characters become aware of their own : : ephemerality : 2 : Someone implies that 10 Forward is a Happening: : Place : 1 : They fade to commercial playing the "ominous : : horns" : 1 : They fade to commercial with a soap-opera-like: : close up on someone's face : 1 : The Enterprise is hurled somewhere by another : : force (Q, Tin Man, etc.) : 2 : Klingon is spoken : 1 : English is spoken by Klingons when they are : : alone and have no reason to speak English : 2 : Picard or Riker order a course change by : : exact X, Y, and Z coordinates, rather than: : something like "Set course for Starbase 8": 3 : The computer makes that "I'm listening" chirp : 1 : An "expendable" is killed : 1 ea. : A new alien ship is revealed : 1 : Something escapes the sensors : 1 : Something escapes the sensors and they use the: : word "interference" as an excuse : 2 : Communications malfunction/go out : 1 : Transporter goes down : 1 : A token alien is shown in the background : : and has no lines : 1 : The token alien is a Vulcan : 2 : Yellow Alert : 1 : Red Alert : 2 : Intruder Alert : 3 : The Enterprise docks at a starbase : 3 : Another Captain or Starfleet Command officer : : is shown : 1 : A desk hologram is seen : 2 : There is a countdown : 1 : Someone stops the countdown : 2 : Bridge command is handed over : 1 : The Enterprise avoids a conflict rather than : : using force : 1 : The Enterprise actually fights (shots must be : : fired) : 2 : Someone uses the episode's title in a sentence: 2 : The saucer section separates : Whole Beverage : They contact someone via communicator or : : intercom without activating it : 1 : Communicators don't work : 1 : Communicators are out of range : 2 : The battle bridge is used : 1 : The battle bridge is used with the saucer : : section still attached : 2 : TNG contradicts a fact stated in TOS : 2 : Dialogue in the turbolift : 1 : A poker game is shown : 1 : A log entry is made : 1 : A log entry is made - not by Picard : 2 : A stardate is mentioned - not in a log entry : 1 : An Old Earth Date is mentioned : 2 : Someone requests that an image on the main : : viewer be magnified : 1 : Someone requests magnification when it's : : painfully obvious that it's necessary : 2 : Readings go off the scale : 1 : The ship/crew is seconds away from disaster : 1 : Someone removes their communicator : 1 : Someone places their communicator on something: : so it can be beamed away or destroyed : 2 : Someone gives their communicator to a non- : : crewmember so they can communicate with : : the Enterprise : 3 : The transporter room can't lock on to someone : 1 : The transporter room pulls someone through : : after their ship explodes : 2 : Someone who normally pronounces "sensors" as : : "SEN-sers" pronounces it as "SEN-sohrs" : 1 : Someone brings up the matter/antimatter ratio : 1 : A member of the bridge crew looks WAY too : : pleased with him/herself : 1 : A Captain's Log entry is made by someone other: : than Picard : 2 : A sound effect from TOS is heard : 1 : The camera pans > 90 degrees to show how BIG : : the ship is : 1 : Someone changes their pronunciation of a word : : within the same scene : 1 : Someone throws/is hit by/etc. styrofoam props : 1 : Someone quotes Shakespeare, etc. (See Picard) : 1 : A bad fight scene occurs : 1 : The Enterprise is taken over : 1 : The weapons are rendered useless : 1 : Phasers are used for a different function than: : intended (e.g. overload, power : : a transporter, etc.) : 1 : Harmonics are changed in shields/phasers/etc. : 1 : Someone alludes to a work/person/event/etc. : : that hasn't been made/existed/happened yet: 1 : A guest appearance is made by someone from TOS: 3 : Security alert or request : 1 : Part of a set is destroyed in a fistfight : 2 : A succession of five face closeups with no : : dialogue : 1 : A shuttlecraft is launched : 2 : A probe is launched : 1 : Someone mentions Jack Crusher : 2 : Someone is seen out of uniform (in civvies) : 2 : The Enterprise is boarded by hostiles : 2 : The warp engine light goes really fast : 2 : The auto-destruct sequence is activated : 3 : A principle character is put on trial : 1 : The Enterprise is captured in a nebula/cloud : 1 : A star returns from the dead : Whole Beverage : Ancient alien technology screws things up : 1 : Someone is transported to somewhere other than: : a transporter room or sickbay from : : somewhere other than a transporter room : 2 : The Enterprise encounters an unknown energy : : form : 1 =========================================================================== Picard : "Make it so" : 1 Quotes : "Engage" : 1 : "Come" : 1 : "Come" (in personal quarters) : 2 : "Captain's Log" : 1 : "Captain's Log, Supplemental" : 2 : "Proceed" : 1 : "Number One" : 1 : "The boy" in reference to Wesley : 1 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Picard : Straightens his uniform : 2 Actions : Straightens his uniform before giving a speech: 3 : Drinks : 2 : Drinks tea : 3 : Drinks tea identified as Earl Grey : 4 : Wears chest-revealing bedwear : 2 : Has an accident or is attacked : 2 : Accident or attack draws blood : 3 : Is possessed : 4 : Requests a Level One Diagnostic : 1 : Makes a speech that saves the day : 1 : Tries to avoid Lwuxana Troi : 1 : Surrenders : 1 : Leaves the ship : 1 : Leaves the ship to lead an away team : 2 : Demonstrates knowledge of a foreign language : 1 : Swears/hurls an insult in a foreign language : 2 : Appears uncomfortable (around women, children): 1 : Quotes Shakespeare, etc. : 2 : Leaves the bridge during a crisis to talk with: : Dr. Crusher or Guinan : 1 : Talks about death to Dr. Crusher : 1 : Takes a communique from Starfleet in his ready: : room : 1 : Is called upon to mediate a dispute : 2 : Takes the helm in a tricky situation : 3 : Is seen on the bridge out of uniform : 2 : Calls a meeting : 1 : Calls a meeting in the middle of a crisis : 2 : Cries : Whole Beverage =========================================================================== Worf : "Impressive" : 1 ------- End of Forwarded Message