Lucien [hy/hym, comrade/them]

Popeye’s biscuits instead of crackers, and sweet tea instead of wine. We can say the fried chicken stands for something, I don’t know.

crapolics didn’t think that all the way through

That episode absolutely slaps

Still vibin

Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a moderator!

Shut up, Wesley

But if you hang in there, you get rewarded with a Riker’s Beard

Everybody raise your hand if you were radicalized by Star Trek ✋

It helps that Stewart is such a fantastic monologist. It’s like hearing something complex about biology or ecology from David Attenborough. They both have such an effortless ability to communicate difficult subjects.

Another key point I feel is often overlooked about Star Trek is the “Gulliver’s Travels” component of (at least pre-Kelvin) Star Trek. Every show, every race was secretly a fun-house-like caricature of humanity’s worst traits, with the humans of the show demonstrating growth past that point. You laugh at or shirk away from them, but really it’s modern humanity that is being depicted (Ferengi as capitalists, Klingons as warmongers, Romulans as subversives, etc.) And then we see what we could be, the hope that you talked about, in future humanity

You awaken from your slumber, refreshed and ready to face the day. You had stayed the night at your childhood home, visiting family, and the artifacts from that era that had the night before cast a ghostly presence were now starting to feel much more familiar. Your phone, on the table beside your bed, starts to ring.

It means your phone is using recycled up/down votes

Collective Soul (fairly popular in their heyday, less so now)