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.
I’d hate to be the one to say this, but that’s not what people mean by “picking up girls.”
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.
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.
If only there was a better way…
The added layer to this joke is, as someone that works with engineers, this is exactly the kind of response Sisko should expect.
In a pipe, apparently. The article goes on to describe what it feels like, but cautions that inhaling smoke from anything is going to be bad for you.
including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions
Ah, there it is. Kicking climate change under the carpet again, I see.
Hah! I suggested almost the same thing before reading your comment. I agree.
Anyway, that in particular story would never happen in the visual mediums.
I dunno. The SFX crew would probably love to kitbash the ship more and more each season. Meanwhile, the merchandising opportunities would be off the chart. “Voyager? Yes, which season/version of the ship are we talking about? There are seven.”
but that what made it home was the Federation culture that the original crew embodied.
That’s pretty much the core theme behind Prodigy, so we know that would have worked as a narrative device. Too bad they didn’t give that a shot back then.
I get the impression that this is hard to do right. I am so incredibly thankful that the Battlestar Galactica reboot went there for pretty much the entire series, and did a great job. Heck, I even cared about the ship by the time it was all done. Meanwhile, Stargate:Universe screwed it up at every opportunity.
IMO Voyager, as both a crew and as a ship, should have been unrecognizable by the end of the voyage. I’m talking all sorts of exotic tech bolted to the hull, a greater Delta Quadrant crew compliment, crew diet of hydroponics from very distant worlds, and maybe even a few additional ships in formation. They even bothered to mention the bio-electronic ship systems in the flippin’ pilot, which could have turned into a sentient starship or something. It could have been epic.
Captain Jackson: I recognize that Starfleet has made a decision, but given that’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.
Actual belly laughs here. Bravo. I give it a, very rare, -0/5.