Risa

Let's not forget that time when primitive 20th century freezer jockeys were thawed out on the Enterprise D and a sleazy 80s business man was able to do pretty much whatever he wanted with the computer. When Picard yells at him, he replies that if there were things he shouldn't be allowed to do, why didn't they set the computer to not allow it? And Picard replies that people shouldn't have to be told they aren't allowed to do certain things, they should be able behave without the computer forcing it.

So, the reason they have such a huge security issue is that they run everything on the honor system. Though I suppose this was right after Worf took over security, so I guess that makes sense.

Man fuck those parasites.

The first time I saw that episode, I don't remember how old I was, but it was one of the first times I was left home alone. And by total coincidence, right when it was at the most intense part of the episode the power went out at my house. It was night time, during a thunderstorm, and no one else was home.

And then I had to brave the basement to check the breaker box. In the dark. Which was a little Home-Alone-evil-furnace-scene for me under normal circumstances.

Don't forget Starfleet infiltrating Starfleet

The actual truth is Star Fleet is all infiltrators, but no infiltrators know that, and they don't want to blow their cover

There was a Coup attempt in season 4 of DS9. Starfleet attempted to infiltrate Starfleet.

I mean, in fairness their strategy for space exploration seems to be to point a starship in a random direction, hit "go" and beam down to every planet with a remotely breathable atmosphere in their PJ onesies.

The impressive part is they still seem to be the dominant superpower in half the galaxy, so... yay for them.

I think the lesson here is that you should never become an admiral. Kirk was right.

Everyone wants to dance with the pretty girl at the party.

S1 TNG is fucking bonkers. I know a lot of the plots are straight retellings of TOS stuff, but a bunch of the rest feel even wackier than TOS on it's most TAS day.

Part of the problem is that Starfleet is too good to use a cloaking device in their ships. Morons.

I was kind of annoyed in Picard when the Changeling infiltrator was genetically modified by Starfleet. I thought it would have been way cooler if the physiological changes were a result of working alongside 8472, given that 8472 also wanted to infiltrate Starfleet and potentially didn't have the same blood test vulnerability.

I thought it would have been a neat reference but instead it's just another one of Starfleet's evil secrets.

Starfleet took note from Stargate Command