Spotify: downloads songs

Me: plays downloaded songs

Spotify: buffers for five full seconds

Me: PRAY TELL WHAT FOR?!?

Damn, I forgot.

I didn’t forget that episode, one of the franchise’s best, I forgot that they used the AGT future costumes.

“DNA resequencing”

If someone in Star Trek is born with a bum knee, they just laser surgery the knee. Deformed backbone, replicate a new backbone. A lot of defects and disabilities can be solved by 24th-century medicine without involving genetics.

McCoy gave that old lady a pill and she regrew her kidney using her own aged body inside of an hour. Apparently, fixes of that type are an over the counter prescription and don’t run afoul of the eugenics laws either.

Approved genetic modifications is more for things like conjoined births or fetal organ failure. Too many toes? Here’s some special shoes, carry on.

As long as he wasn’t snoring, you can sit behind your dad and imagine he’s the one narrating.

“Oh god, not this shit again.”

45 minutes later

“But WHY does Abigail have to go to the nunnery? She didn’t do anything wrong!”

It looks like the Morton Salt girl cosplaying as a pastry chef.

It’s neat to see established characters discussing something we consider a given, but there’s nothing esoteric about it. Star Trek as a franchise has always been bald-faced about what the Kobayashi Maru test is and why every cadet has to take it.

“How we face death is at least as important as how we face life.” - Admiral Kirk, Wrath of Khan

“Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.”

“Enlighten me again.”

“The purpose is to experience fear - fear in the face of certain death. To accept that fear and maintain control of oneself and one’s crew. This is a quality expected in every Starfleet Captain” - Spock and Kirk, Star Trek 2009

Starfleet learns two important things about each officer-in-training during this test. Whether or not they choose to ignore standing orders and face certain destruction to do the right thing, and how well they handle it when that gamble causes them and everyone they are responsible for to lose.

I imagine stuff like that ends up in every officer’s permanent record. I imagine it determines if Ensign Skippy goes on to command a first-contact vessel carrying the banner of the Federation or a patrol ship in Sol Sector… or be a Captain at all.

“You voted for us.”

I love it, it’s the engine readout on a Battlestar or something.

Boy, we absolutely could not imagine a future without diskette drives. 😂

Vitamin D.

Drywall?? I distinctly remember him pulling down load-bearing bricks!

He has come back to us at the turn of the tide.

Speaking of technology sins, there was that one Transporter movie where the guy plugs a third-generation iPod into a security camera via the headphone jack and downloaded a video.

I lost IQ points watching that.

The Ferangi version of “going Old Testament.”

The “prime future” comm badge was first seen in TNG’s All Good Things. It replaced the “fake future” comm badge from earlier in the series that fused the rank pips with the badge. t was later reused multiple times on Voyager. Captain Kim wore it, Captain LaForge wore it, before Endgame.

The hook look to the Picard comm badge makes it look like a bad alternate future. I’m glad Prodigy brought back both the AGT badge and uniforms.

Chicken with a scarf around its neck: “It’s made of PEEOPLEEE!!”

Cassette pastism.

There’s a former tough guy on his way to the hospital right now that severely underestimated that girl.