Someone please make this scene make sense. What do they think “auto” is short for?
For those following along, it’s the season two finale, not the season three premiere.
JAKE: Maybe we’d better go back to the station for help.
NOG: Good idea. Computer, fly us back to the station.
COMPUTER: Please restate command.
JAKE: Computer, disengage autopilot and lay in a course back to the wormhole.
COMPUTER: Enter authorisation code.
It’s clunky, but it sounds like the “autopilot” is what’s keeping them locked in orbit of the planet, and they’re trying to break out of that pattern.
IIRC, wasn’t it because they couldn’t use autopilot due to it being locked out without Sisko’s authorization?
Ok, but then Jake tears out a chip, the ship says autopilot is disabled, they cheer, and then ask the ship to plot a course, apparently surprised it would need autopilot to perform this. They are not 8 years old, and they speak English, or at least hear a translation of it.
