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Data springs to his feet, ripping the programming cable from his head. Sprinting down the hallway, Geordi in tow, he ducks into the nearest holodeck.

Geordi: Data, what are you doing?

Data is tapping away at the console near the holodeck arch at superhuman speed. His hands are a blur to Geordi, as he furiously loads a huge amount of information into the holodeck computer. He suddenly halts, and looks to his friend.

Data: Computer, initiate program doom episode one, mission one. Difficulty, nightmare.

Geordi: Data, I'm not sure that's a good idea....

Data: Geordi, it is time to rip and tear. Computer, set safety protocols off.

To quote Lower Decks:

Mariner: I think it was the chef in the biolab with the sniper rifle that can shoot through walls.

Freeman: You always pick the chef.

Mariner: Yeah, because we have replicators. Why is there a chef? That's just shady.

Yup. The movie basically set the tone that the galaxy was ruled by decadents that were kind of unaware and feckless when it came to novel challenges.

On top of that, SGC figured out that sending scouting parties of 3-4 people was insanely effective at shifting the balance of power across the whole flippin' galaxy. And that was just with conventional ballistic weapons. It makes complete sense to arm counter-insurgents with what was already working, on a much bigger scale. It gives Earth and your exploratory efforts a lot of breathing room on the cheap.

The show extrapolates from there, but does the odd thing of having to make the Goa'uld super effective at interstellar warfare, to explain the conflict with the Asgard. But by that point, the SGC has looted enough tech to build a single ship, along with a huge chunk of Robotech's storyline, to save everybody.

Easily my favorite episode. The visual and written humor lays out both how insane the Borg challenge is while simultaneously illustrating Boimler's Kirk-level talent for defeating impossible odds. Scoring 100% seems to require no less than:

• Transport onto a Borg cube armed with nothing but a phaser
• Teach the Borg queen empathy
• Defeat the Borg queen at chess
• Capture five Borg prisoners
• Rescue ten Borg babies
• Set the cube for self destruct
• Establish subspace comms to schedule rendezvous with Starfleet
• Steal an escape pod and escape the doomed cube

I know I'm reading too much into this, but Badgey's ascension kind of says something very thought provoking.

I can't let go of the fact that Badgey had his personality stripped down to little more than pure vengance. Yet when he achieves omniscience, this is immediately put aside by a feeling of being something greater, then ascends to points beyond. Is this a deliberate story point to suggest the possibility of asension being a process outside of morals, inner peace, and logic, or is that an accident? Or did Badgey somehow summon new facets to his psyche out of this experience? Or is the door left open for a malevolent presence to come crashing down on everyone later?

Then again, we already had one gag where ascending was a "wait, it's that easy?!" moment, so maybe that's all there is to it.

I mean, he kind of is.

It's not like he's the only one that can pilot the ship to/from deep space and isn't also a loose cannon. Or also the lead engineer. Or probably the only one qualified to fix and/or rebuild the spore drive should anything really bad happen to it. I mean, that would be insane to field a ship with a single point of failure for three critical roles - that would just be irresponsible.

Zero pressure job, really.

built all that shit from scratch based on nothing but a video

So basically if Adam Savage was a whole civilization?

Agreed. We don't need any more computer bad guys. Besides, Daystrom appears to be tight on evil supercomputer AI storage as it is.

The Frieza Force clearly had the superior shoulder pad technology:

That said, it couldn't help them from being picked apart by a hillbilly in orange pants.

Oh no.

It's another menagerie, isn't it?

Edit: that or the Pakleds started hiring subcontractors.

I want to disagree with this but... you're right. Heck, in Raiders, Jones actively makes the entire situation worse before the story kind of fixes itself.

I'm now convinced there's a Gowron screencap for every occasion. Is there a Gowron mood chart yet?

Also: "I'll be long dead before Starfleet makes it's way back here, if ever."

Then there's the consideration that warp-capable societies are criss-crossing the entire quadrant without a care for "cultural contamination" and whatnot. Heck, they already have a Borg problem - there are bigger problems to solve.

My headcannon here is that Starfleet Fashion Week is this highly competitive yearly event, with designers trying all kinds of insane things to turn admiral's heads. So there's this robust fashion industry vying for bragging rights for re-tooling all the Federation uniforms. All this stuff comes out of replicators anwyay, there's no reason not to change uniforms up every few years if they feel like it. Hence the outfit churn.

T'Lyn is basically Daria, or Vulcan Aubrey Plaza added to the ensemble, and I'm here for it. She's such a welcome contrast to the other character personalities, but somehow still manages to be almost as chaotic.

Well played.

because that implies some hierarchy

Yup. See: Conway's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

This indeed works in both directions and it's possible to gain some insight into an organization based on its behavior and output.

I don't usually autopsy jokes, but since the punchline is itself both analysis and humor, here we go:

• https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn54hc595-sp.pdf?ts=1697113591205&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)

There needs to be a third panel:

Picard: THANK YOU, Mr. Data.

D&D Beyond

This is entirely too clever. And accurate.