Reference shot from Scarface (1983)

I am almost sorry for making possibly the single nerdiest image to ever exist. Almost.

While searching for info for a meme, I got some very puzzling results from the "A.I." that gave me pause. I mean, come on, Wesley becomes smitten with Ashley Judd's character in season 5 episode 6 "The Game" and not season 5 episode 2 "Darmok". Boy, I really hope some program got decompiled for that blunder.

Oh, and the whole assumed Oedipal mother-son incest thing too, I guess.

TNG S5E6 The Game

Two reasons, actually.

1. It's not their preferred preparation. All the replicated food is based on a pattern from an original recipe. It's not adding flair or anything, it's literally a copy of a dish made who knows how long ago. And that's where the next reason comes from:

2. Imagine eating some spicy pepper dish from, like, the 1940's vs the same dish made today with spicer peppers. It wouldn't be as spicy eating something that wasn't, at the time, really selectively bred to be more spicy. If the recipe for the replicator is, like, hundreds of years old it would probably not be as potent as the same dish made with real ingredients.

I can imagine that the characters that have expressed disdain for replicated food probably get hit by both of these. It's not the way they would preferred it to be made, and it's also like eating vegetable jello salad in 2024.

Don't know how you all feel about Gene Roddenberry who kick started the whole Trek franchise and everything that came after it.

He is definitely someone that has affected a lot of lives beyond the work that he did and the life that he led.

For all his shortcomings, he is someone I look up to that has made humanity look at itself in the mirror and seriously think about what we all see in each other through all the shows and characters that he helped to create.

... btw ... this post is another Trek thing where in chatting with all you led me down to a page that noted that today is the memorial of Roddenberry's passing in 1991.

"Reaching?" Not sure I understand.

Source.

I was thinking about this before the Tholian wave, but it's apropos.

It unscientifically appears to me that TOS had a far higher incidence on non-humanoid aliens than later series. Tholiens, Horta, the flying neural parasites on Deneva; while there were many bipedal aliens sometimes differing only by skins color, many were non-bipeds or were bipedal but radically different from humans, like the Gorn and the salt vampire. In later series, it seems nearly all aliens were reduced to bumpy head species.

TOS ran for only three seasons, and truly different aliens are expensive; I understand the economics of going the prosthetic forehead route. And it's difficult to have recurring truly alien biology in a series.

My question is whether anyone's done a statistical analysis covering the originality of aliens, per series, based on divergence from the humanoid base. Does it only seem like TOS had more different types of aliens (intelligent and non) because it was so short, or was the universe really more diverse in TOS?

I feel like we're really reaching today lol