Happy beanniversary. The standard gift is beans.

No, I think it’s because they want to hug the mountain, to envelop…that mountain.

ChatGPT can’t count. Try to get it to compose haikus consistently. It can’t do it.

The Enterprise crew is climbiing the Black Mountain, why are they climbing the Black Mountain?

A better analogy might be shutting off their water because they were using it to make naughty ice sculptures, which are forbidden by the HOA.

Let’s just say she wanted to be lickenpooper.

You’re in it!

My headcanon is that it’s fiction, and we diverged from it in 1966.

I’m glad someone said it.

Did I win?!

Computer, reactivate Emergency Engineering Hologram

Holo’brien: Fuck off! Computer, delete program, command override O’Brien six-six-gamma-seven.

Idunno, old man McCoy in the TNG pilot was pretty memorable, as was Picard in the first episode of DS9. It’s a fun tradition.

Lower Decks is the best one of all the post kelvin Treks, for sure, but that might be because it’s borrowing so heavily from TNG/TMP.

It looks like Kelley’s head photoshopped onto a stock image of a magician.

Edit: Yup, found the magician. Now to see if I can find where that headshot is from. It’s definitely TOS era.

Edit 2: Couldn’t find it with a simple reverse image search, so I looked for “DeForest Kelley smiling” and found the original image of him on this delightfully old-school web page dating back to 2001. (Bless him, the page is still active and has a counter and everything.) The image makes it clear that it is indeed from Star Trek, but he has on a unique formal looking tunic with a split collar, which should make it easy to narrow down to a specific episode.

Edit 3: Some reverse image searching on the full image led me to the ever-useful site getyarn.io, which provided a clip of the exact moment of this image, in which Bones is saying “a teddy bear?” It’s from TOS S02E10, “Journey to Babel”. Here’s a longer clip with the amusing context:

https://youtu.be/TvT-hWOt63w?si=TZenf1cKA36E3xiA

Far more likely that whoever installed the clock just forgot to change the units.

Oh of course, the list of horrors is endless. Philosophers desperate to maintain the existence of a benevolent deity have wrestled for two thousand years to solve the problem of evil, and none of them ever came any closer than shrugging and presuming that there must be an unsurmountable flaw in our understanding of the universe that blinds us to his plan. A flaw in us, his allegedly perfect creation. Whoops, there’s that nagging contradiction again.

Am I supposed to know what a pepperhead is?

Canonically speaking, according to the lore, God is a huuuuge dick, so if you believe God exists at all, it’s not hard to believe he’s up there throwing hurricanes and fires at us just because he can. Because he’s a dick.

[citation needed]

I’ve read the exact opposite, that they always wanted a pop song for the credits, but nearly waffled on it just before it aired.

I can understand not vibing with the song, but the montage and what it represents is peak Trek to me. I love it to death.