Life is hard enough as it is. I’m tired. I’m exhausted. Give me hope for a better tomorrow that I honestly can’t see. Gimme Star Trek.
That being said, what do you think is the funniest episode of TNG and the scariest episode? I can’t make up my damn mind on what to watch. I’m starting with Schisms because fuck that holodeck clicking scene.
Also after posting this and taking a look at the home screen, I feel like I’m dangerously close to spamming. If I haven’t already. If it becomes a problem please let me know. Gonna back off a bit today.
I haven’t actually finished TNG yet, but here are my picks for funniest and scariest so far.
Funniest: Deja Q
Scariest: Identity Crisis
Don’t forget, even in the Star Trek main timeline, Earth had to suffer through the Second American Civil War, the Eugenics Wars, World War III, and the post-atomic horror before her people were able to start building a utopia. We’re right on track! ☢ 👽 🐬 🛸
In Trek we were lucky that our little corner had friendly/tolerable aliens and specifically that it was the Vulcan first contact.
Unfortunately in our reality we are 99.99999% for sure alone and the end result of all that suffering, if we manage to achieve near FTL travel we will just devolve into some nihilistic hyper capitalism, those stupid articles “this asteroid is worth 1 trillion USD in minerals” are already being published unironically.
The funniest moment for me is when Data is telling Worf how to care for Spot. He’s saying stuff like “You must provide her with feline supplement 39 twice per day. You must give her affection 3 times per day. You must tell her she’s a good cat, and a pretty cat”. Worf looks at Data with murder in his eyes and says “I will feed her”.
The reverse is the scene where Data is in command and he has to rein in Worf.
Your post reminds me of an interaction I had in the train last week. This old guy sat next to me and asked me if there was a toilet on the train. I said there wasn’t on short tracks like these. That rubbed the old man the wrong way and he started complaining how there used to be toilets in his time and that train service used to be better. Eventually his rant turned to the government and how the train was a jew train and life as a whole was nothing but an annoyance to him. All I coudl keep say was that he was right, everything sucks, so that’s why I was on my way home to grab a beer and watch some netflix and maybe he should do the same. I told him to write a letter to the government as well. I hope he does, maybe they’ll put him on some list.
Anyways. Life is short and you’ve only got one as far as you know, so you’ve gotta make it the best life you can. You ain’t got time or energy to worry about things you can’t affect and things that don’t matter.
I’ve stopped watching the news and instead started watching Trek for my mental health. My anxiety is better and honestly I think I’ve watched every episode at least three times by now.
Would rather hear the intro to Enterprise than some talking head explaining how the world is going to burn and no one really cares. We have lived in the garden of Eden and burnt it to the ground.
