Hahaha TAS had some absolutely unhinged episodes, I’m glad I watched it just to see the callbacks in LD. Love that they brought back the three-part alien to do that crew evaluation in the holodecks. Also not just Satan, but needlessly sexy space-wizard Satan.

But is it sausage war or sausage peace?

I knew vaguely that Early Grey had something called bergamot in it, but I was fully unprepared for it to be citrusy! Almost “bright” tasting.

Hah, was that the deus ex machina they ended up going with? I’ll be honest I’ve tried to watch Shore Leave at least 3 times and I don’t think I’ve ever made it to the end. It’s just so silly. Allison Pregler did a pretty funny breakdown of the episode.

“Back in my day we didn’t need any fancy ‘holodecks’ to trip balls!”

Is that the one where Worf complains about a mud bath being too similar to bathing lol

There can be no sausage so long as laws are absolute.

This just reinforces my head canon that other species are terrified of humans for being so reckless with technology.

There was an episode of TNG where the crew was being eaten alive by “inter-phasic” aliens and Dr. Crusher could only see them by using her IP Scanner (hee hee). So my question is: how does Starfleet know they wont phase into a layer of spacetime inhabited by, say, giant spaceship eating worms?

You could be right, this does look a lot like the fake HDR pictures that were common in the 2000s

Sounds like you and the word “epoch” have a lot of catching up to do.

Yeah probably, none of them have extra fingers. But wow did someone screw the targ with this poster.

wtf did they use AI to generate this poster?

JRPGs are like 50% book so I say we still count it.

They were the best of frenemies.

Hey, that’s awesome. I never even noticed while watching LD bc they spent so much time just expanding Orion culture in general. Such a good show.

For real. That show could easily have leaned into making fun of Star Trek just for being Star Trek. But the writers chose to punch up instead and just point out the obviously absurd from an in-universe perspective. Like the idea of ships having giant store rooms to put all of their doomsday weapons alien artifacts, and then ENSIGNS of all people being responsible for cleaning/maintaining said room and artifacts.

“The Shape of Water” is my response to this.

Oh, yeah, I’ll give you Vulcan. Do the Xindi all count as one species? I took them to be six (well, five now) distinct species that all evolved on the same planet. As for Andorians, I guess they have the Aenar but Shran described them as a “sub-species”. Not sure if that was racism on his part or not. Orions I’ve never seen portrayed as anything but green.

An alternate universe version where Bashir is a sentient hologram but yes, yes they did.