#2570: Captain Picard Tea Order explain

[At the top of the panel, there is a large caption covering two lines with a sub-caption below in a normal-sized font:]

Other words Captain Picard tried at the end of his tea order before settling on “hot”

From most normal to least

[Bellow this we see Picard, drawn bald except for a bit of hair near his ears and behind his head. He stands next to a machine, which is a standing rectangle of the same dimensions as Picard. In the front, there is an opening around the middle, a dispenser from where the ordered items can be retrieved. There is a label at the top of the machine. Picard is giving a command to the machine. His first three words are clearly spoken out as they stand, but then at the end of the sentence, instead of just adding one more word, there is a list of five words in a column between two gray lines. Five words are visible, but the top and bottom words are fading out, presumably other words are above and below, but no longer visible. All except the middle are gray. The middle word is placed as the direct follow up to the first three words in the sentence Picard speaks out, and this word is black like the previous three words. So this middle word is clearly the one he actually speaks out. The others were options, presumably on his mind.]

Label: Replicator

Picard:

               <font color="Gray">Good.</font>

               <font color="Gray">Cold.</font>

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

               <font color="Gray">Dry.</font>

               <font color="Gray">Pink.</font>

[To the left of the machine, a long arrow begins snaking its way towards the bottom, where it ends in an arrow pointing down towards the bottom of the panel. At the top, there is a broad and thick bar from which it starts. Beneath this there are several ticks, the first three are close together and on a part of the arrow that goes almost straight down. But then the arrow curves in under the drawing of Picard, and goes over another drawing of him, placed in a captioned frame. The arrow goes around this and up on the other side, where it goes around another drawing of Picard in a similarly captioned frame. After having gone around this frame it goes a bit up before turning almost straight down before the final arrowhead that points down. In total there are 36 labeled ticks on the arrow, see labels below. The ticks have very varying distances between them. There are especially long between them around the first panels with Picard, but closer together at the start and towards the very end. Above the top bar from where the arrow starts there is also a label and just below this and to the left of the long arrow is a smaller arrow pointing down in the direction of the long arrow. This small arrow has a label at its starting point.]

Bar label: Normal

Small arrow label: Less normal

[The second drawing of Picard, shows him standing next to the labeled machine. Picard is this time holding a cup, with sticky lines connecting his hands and the machine to the cup. He clearly looks down at the cup rather than on the machine, as the hair behind his ear is turned differently than the first drawing, where he looks straight towards the machine. Above is a label inside a frame overlaid on the top line of the panel, with what Picard ordered:]

“Tea. Earl Grey. Sticky.”

Label: Replicator

[The third drawing of Picard, only displays him and not the machine. He is holding a vibrating cup in both hands and has now turned the other way, away from where the machine was in the previous drawings (again clearly seen by his hair). Very large letters are displayed in three lines behind him to the exclusion of all else. Four of the 15 letters are partly hidden behind the panel’s frame, and seven of them are partly covered by Picard. Above is a label inside a frame overlaid on the top line of the panel, with what Picard ordered:]

“Tea. Earl Grey. Loud.”

Teacup: Teeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Words on the arrow from start to finish:]

Hot

Iced

Decaf

Good

Lukewarm

Tasty

Boiled

Watery

Sour

Meaty

Solid

Dry

Raw

Deep-fried

Sticky

Grilled

Fossilized

Magnetic

Ballistic

Unstable

Blessed

Blurry

Loud

Virtual

Intravenous

Expanding

Ironic

Segmented

Verbose

Cursed

Unexpected

Bipedal

Afraid

Infinite

Tea for him, too