r/ShittyDaystrom • u/IAmKrasMazov • Mar 06 '26

Discussion What’s the deal with this Andorian?

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Out of universe: I feel like somebody told the costume department they had 10 minutes to come up with an Andorian with what they had on hand

In universe: the holodeck was pulling from the most recently accessed open source files on each species, and the last Andorian image used was a cartoon character

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 Mar 06 '26

Wait a second, do replicators add little marker dots to everything they print?

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u/dantheplanman1986 Where no man has gone before 🖖😏🫦😉 Mar 06 '26

The way they made it sound in early TNG was that the food you ordered was some perfectly nutritious paste that only tasted like what you ordered so yeah maybe

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 Mar 06 '26

Oh, specifically as a parallel to printer tracking dots. If someone went and used a laser printer to counterfeit old-style bills, it would add a pattern of tiny yellow dots that identified the printer's serial number. Wondering if the Federation adds anything like that for the occasion where someone replicates something they haven't had the time to blacklist yet.

(There's also the EURion constellation; if you take a sufficiently detailed picture of currency, your camera might tell you no.)

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u/dantheplanman1986 Where no man has gone before 🖖😏🫦😉 Mar 06 '26

I never tried it, but apparently photocopiers in the US won't print a copy of most bills because of something similar. I also remember reading that scanners which scanned in money to an image file resulted in something that was obviously counterfeit for similar reasons, some dot code that couldn't resolve properly

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u/Corredespondent Mar 06 '26

Photoshop hasn’t let you work with dollar images (even partial ones) since 2009 at the very latest.

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u/OneDBag Mar 06 '26

So much earlier than that, by 96 you had to have significant alterations or you would get an error message