"This is the LockPickingLawyer, and what I have for you today is a standard-issue Starfleet self-destruct mechanism from Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems..."

Seriously though what are people supposed to do? "Captain, requesting permission to fuck that alien." Who actually does that?

r/greatestgen is still up and there's a thread from 4 days ago from the FoD Mastodon admin about setting up an FoD Lemmy. I pointed that OP here but it wouldn't be official Uxbridge-Shimoda social media unless its the Card Daddy as admin.

"I made four attempts to induce sexual desire by subjecting myself to erotic imagery."

Welcome to the Lemmy Party!

I describe it as the Federation taking a "peace dividend" at the end of the Klingon Cold War that disrupted new starship development for a generation or longer. Excelsior-class was the best platform to result from cold-wartime development and thus became the workhorses that lasted through the transition to the more "peacetime developed" heavy explorers like Ambassador and Galaxy-classes.

The real-world parallel are the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. They were the peak design at the end of the Cold War, a peace dividend was taken which slowed shipbuilding at the time, their overly ambitious successor classes were ultimately unsuccessful, and it was decided to cancel the newer Zumwalt-class after only 3 ships and instead keep building more third-generation Arleigh Burkes.

Still less cringe than any of his actual dialog.

Remember the Cant!

Troi prescribes regularly plexing Loreili for stress relief

I want to see that Sanford and Son vs Lou Ferrigno episode!

Just dinna light that candle.

Neapolitan-style

Writing anything down might constitute strike-breaking.

Back then downtown Chicago had a cards and comics shop called Lower Decks. They would put TNG CCG cards in one of those sort of candy-type vending machines where you get a few cards for a quarter. I got the "Lower Decks" card out of that machine at the Lower Decks shop.

A friend stole my Borg Cube card and I never forgave him.