"Tut tut, I didn't say 'Captain says Yellow Alert', Counselor Troi wins"

It took me a second. I thought the joke was the yellow shirts have to say alert. So Riker was a little confusing.

Starfleet training is intense!

GROAN

Maybe Q was right about humanity.

/s love content like this though

The Q Continuum isn't ready for us.

This is brilliant!

They’re very obviously not in tents. They’re on the bridge.

It's an entirely different kind of alert altogether.

I'm forever going to be thinking about this meme every time I hear a yellow alert.

I hated the yellow alert in star trek it literally has no use.
Any situation that requires a yellow alert is a red alert by definition

It's an entirely different kind of alert.

ALAAARMSTUFE ROOOT

WIR WERDEN BEDROHT

Yellow alert comes right before brown alert.

Yellow alert means weapons aren't armed but shields are. Red alert means weapons are energized. You might go to yellow alert for an unknown anomaly or a ship in distress. Something that would require the crew to be ready for some shit popping off but not high alert for combat.

Now you see if theres a threat that requires shields then it natually means you should have someone on weapons as well.
Which means its a red alert.

I got bored after my last comment and looked it up:

https://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/10/22/star-trek-the-next-generation-red-alert/

Its not even used in the show that much

The difference is more of a posture thing. You don't walk up to someone in distress with your fists up but you might approach with caution in case it's a trap. Same for yellow/red alert. Other ships can scan you and see when you've got your weapons armed. If you come warping in to help someone with gun ports bristling they might take you as a threat instead of as help.

Unless you sneeze

Also if you are investigating one of those exploding nebulas phasers aren't gonna help but shields might

Relevant Robot Chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5BkEhJ5fI

This is absolutely a prank on Deanna Troi.

me sneezed on yer mum

A deep dark brown shade