And then you kill them?

They stopped calling it a “failsafe”, what more do you want?

Which one?

Symbiosis: The crew must mediate between a planet of addicts and another planet of dealers.

Loud as a Whisper: The crew are ferrying a famous mediator to a warzone, but after his aides are killed the crew must step in.

The Vengeance Factor: The crew must mediate between the queen of a planet and a group of rebels who left the planet 100 years ago

The Price: The crew host negotiations for control of a wormhole

The Outrageous Okona: The crew rescue a charming rogue, but two angry fathers show up looking for him.

Too Short a Season: The crew deals with the ramifications of a badly botched diplomatic negotiation that was handled decades earlier by the guest-starring badmiral.

“Spock, ship’s stores can produce as many shirts as we need on demand.”

“I wasn’t referring to garments, captain.”

A number of my repos are listed.

But the weird part is that it also lists a repo I don’t recognize. The repo does actually exist on my github account, but it’s marked as “ignored”, and the description says it was automatically exported from Google Code. The code seems to be a MacOS shareware file encryption tool called “BitClamp”, published circa 2008.

No idea how it got on my account.

I like TOS Operation: Annihilate! because it presents a situation where a starship captain would be justified in issuing General Order 24. I’m disappointed that they didn’t actually mention GO24 in the episode, but my headcanon is that the crew were all reluctant to mention it by name.

I think GO24 is deeply misunderstood. It’s only ever been presented as a thing that a bad, crazy captain would order; as grounds for mutiny. So why would Starfleet even have such an order on the books? I think it’s actually designed for situations like the one in this episode: to prevent the spread of dangerous life forms.

This interpretation also enhances my enjoyment of another TOS episode, A Taste of Armageddon. In this episode, Kirk actually invokes General Order 24. Scotty understands that Kirk needs leverage to bluff with, and plays along. Bluffing the bad guys by citing a public health ordinance is classic Kirk. See also Corbomite and Fizzbin

He’s capable of functioning for extended periods in a vacuum… or in anything else.

I wonder what a Ferengi End-User License Agreement says.

Little Johnny took a drink but now will drink no more

For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

Like “Exploding Bird of Prey”, the “Flying Klingon” clip is originally from The Undiscovered Country.

sips my store-brand Colombian

One of the best scenes in Trek. Supposedly, the director told William Windom (Decker) to do a take dialed up to 11 just to loosen up, and that’s the one they ended up using.

The rug really ties the room together.

Short answer, “yes” with an “if.” Long answer, “no” with a “but.”

Quiet, she’ll hear you!

My child, that’s not really fair. Winn was ambitious and power-hungry, yes, and that made her corruptible, true, but that’s not the same as being evil. I also think she redeemed herself at the end, using her last breath to tell the Emissary how to defeat the Pah Wraiths.

Break out the self-sealing pitchforks!