I wish it took me a moment.

Holy hell yeah you did. How would you go about doing that in a single expression? A bunch of back references to figure out the country? What if that’s not included? Oy.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/perl_problems.png

Was that Edelweiss? I don’t know what to do with this.

Katamari Damacy is the first one.

Oh man that’s… Well done, well done!

Points for “sassy robot.” But you could have described it worse. This was the first one I could identify.

And that sounds like a line from Lower Decks (just sub “Starfleet” for “Trek”), which is why I love that show so.

Now that I think about it, what makes the fan service work on LD is that they don’t try to cloak it in some sort of wink and nod bullshit. Like Sulu in ST 2009 with the sword. Again, some of that is the prerogative of a comedy.

I’m right there with you, except that I can’t even bring myself to watch DIS or PIC. As soon as it became clear how much those shows were being produced like the movies I lost interest. It’s not what I want from Trek. And I subsequently waited a good while to check out LD, but that was a mistake. I absolutely love it. It’s the perfect combination of classic Trek optimism, loveable characters, and comedy. And they honestly even get fan-service right, which I didn’t think was possible (though it does make sense that it would be in a semi-parody).

Hah! That was definitely something that arrived in the “family” email that we all thought was just the funniest shit we had ever seen. Weirdly similar circumstances.

A boring dystopia.