Yup. At the same time: a messianic hero rises to lead the chosen people.

Yes, but with Moopsy, and Orion shenanigans.

You take that back.

I was going to say that this idea doesn’t fit in with the lore at all. But when I think about how a lot of Trek tech has hilariously bad failure modes built in (e.g. transporter malfunctions, rogue holodeck programs, consoles that double as fireworks storage lockers, flame-throwers on the bridge), accidentally cooking crew-members insides for want of perpetually hot coffee is weirdly on brand here.

So much so, that everyone in Season 3 basically forgot that Season 2 … happened at all.

And Prodigy.

More likely: “Bridge Crew”

I thought she assimil-eight nine?

Actual belly laughs here. Bravo. I give it a, very rare, -0/5.

What a missed opportunity.

Imagine an episode of DS9 where Quark, on Bashir’s suggestion of how he buys more drinks when he’s in a good mood, decides to have an open-mic comedy act on odd nights. Then he himself takes the stage in the third act, and … bombs? slays? It could go either way, honestly.

Morn could even have a slot, only to get pre-empted at the microphone by a guest comedian.

Spock: It’s comedy, but not as we know it.

every few hours

There is simply too much ADHD in this household to pull that off. We’d wind up with tepid strawberry-water, every time.

That’s actually key. The outside starch coat can’t be at all sticky, and the grains have to separate enough to move around the wok. But not too dry as to resemble uncooked rice. Any other way, and you get a hot blob of rice with seasoning on the outside - basically a really rough fried mochi.

Imagine training cadets for post-crash survival, and having to drill into their heads that “food spoils if it sits around for long enough.”

From the horror stories I’ve read on old Reddit, this is likely a deliberate decision to keep sharp objects out of the hands of table servers. It’s for everyone’s safety. Everyone.

That last panel. ::chef’s kiss::

Data: Captain.

Picard: Thank you.

Beverly: Captain.

Picard: Make do.

Riker: Captain.

Picard: Make it so.

Geordi: Captain.

Picard: Proceed.

Worf: Captain.

Picard: Of course not.

Troi: Captain.

Picard: …

Wesley: Captain.

Picard: Shut up.

let his family live and instead have written a story about living in diasporas

Given that Discovery had plenty of Afrofuturism themes at this point in the story, this really seems like an obvious go-to for where to go next. Booker’s homeworld wasn’t perfect, but it was more perfect than anything else going at the time; losing it was a tragedy that really needed a better epilogue. Rebuilding that place, or helping his people find a new home (probably with the Trills), is a very compelling arc and would have seen the character come unto their own. We really should have seen Booker find a place among the Federation delegates by the end of the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism

due to some strange quirk of their time travel.

While that’s kind of a trope all by itself, I agree that would have been far superior to the apocalypse crybaby reveal.

The added layer to this joke is, as someone that works with engineers, this is exactly the kind of response Sisko should expect.