As a grown man, right now I need my emotional support pillow fort.

GameBoy was by and large a Tetris machine… then Pokemon came out.

This, but unironically.

Also, I love this about kids. NEVER stop asking questions, little girl!

Literally anything besides the metric system.

Back when the only Star Trek property was the Original Series, this could have really pulled Star Trek’s visual style in a completely different direction. Who knows how much of this Phase II would have adapted into live action.

The Motion Picture completely re-centered Star Trek’s look and feel and set the tone for the rest of the franchise for decades.

Damn, I forgot.

I didn’t forget that episode, one of the franchise’s best, I forgot that they used the AGT future costumes.

“DNA resequencing”

If someone in Star Trek is born with a bum knee, they just laser surgery the knee. Deformed backbone, replicate a new backbone. A lot of defects and disabilities can be solved by 24th-century medicine without involving genetics.

McCoy gave that old lady a pill and she regrew her kidney using her own aged body inside of an hour. Apparently, fixes of that type are an over the counter prescription and don’t run afoul of the eugenics laws either.

Approved genetic modifications is more for things like conjoined births or fetal organ failure. Too many toes? Here’s some special shoes, carry on.

“Oh god, not this shit again.”

45 minutes later

“But WHY does Abigail have to go to the nunnery? She didn’t do anything wrong!”

It looks like the Morton Salt girl cosplaying as a pastry chef.

It’s neat to see established characters discussing something we consider a given, but there’s nothing esoteric about it. Star Trek as a franchise has always been bald-faced about what the Kobayashi Maru test is and why every cadet has to take it.

“How we face death is at least as important as how we face life.” - Admiral Kirk, Wrath of Khan

“Furthermore, you have failed to divine the purpose of the test.”

“Enlighten me again.”

“The purpose is to experience fear - fear in the face of certain death. To accept that fear and maintain control of oneself and one’s crew. This is a quality expected in every Starfleet Captain” - Spock and Kirk, Star Trek 2009

Starfleet learns two important things about each officer-in-training during this test. Whether or not they choose to ignore standing orders and face certain destruction to do the right thing, and how well they handle it when that gamble causes them and everyone they are responsible for to lose.

I imagine stuff like that ends up in every officer’s permanent record. I imagine it determines if Ensign Skippy goes on to command a first-contact vessel carrying the banner of the Federation or a patrol ship in Sol Sector… or be a Captain at all.

Nintendo HAD to know that people would try putting GameCube discs into the new Wiis. Maybe the RVL-101 has a simpler arm that just pushes the disc back out instead of trying to move it into place.

“You voted for us.”

Vitamin D.

I didn’t realize there was an in-between model. So that’s what that black Wii was!

You inserted a GC disc and it didn’t jam? If a mini DVD went in properly and could be ejected, then those guides for the smaller discs were still there, just the software no longer registered the disc as a game.

Correct. There was a very complicated and delicate armature inside the drive that guided mini DVDs to the center. The revised Wii had a tray-loading drive, and no GameCube compatibility. So even though you could insert GameCube discs without issue, they wouldn’t play.

Those original Wiis still could not handle the Diddy Kong Racing disc due to the non-circular shape.

John the Revelator got horses levitating on clouds, we get donkeys driving Cybertrucks.

Slot-loading CD drives would get jammed if you inserted anything other than a round, full-sized disc.

Irregular-shaped disc had to use drives that let you secure the disc to the spindle directly.

The Ferangi version of “going Old Testament.”

The “prime future” comm badge was first seen in TNG’s All Good Things. It replaced the “fake future” comm badge from earlier in the series that fused the rank pips with the badge. t was later reused multiple times on Voyager. Captain Kim wore it, Captain LaForge wore it, before Endgame.

The hook look to the Picard comm badge makes it look like a bad alternate future. I’m glad Prodigy brought back both the AGT badge and uniforms.

Chicken with a scarf around its neck: “It’s made of PEEOPLEEE!!”