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I interpreted that song very differently. When Boimler spoke with Chapel, she didn't just realize that her and Spock wouldn't be together long term but also realized that Boimler didn't really know her like he knew Spock.

Spock goes on to do amazing things and every detail of his life is recorded in books that people over a century later will read and, essentially, worship him. Chapel isn't even a cliff note. In her mind, she must feel like she makes no difference and gets down on herself. When she gets the fellowship, it renews her confidence and let's her know that there is a whole universe of possibilities in front of her.

That was my interpretation of her feelings in the song but I can see others as reading it differently.

Do we need the backstory? It's space PCP for war. Jokes aside, look at how many times in war, we (and I mean a collective we because numerous countries have done this over the last century+) have given soldiers, pilots, etc amphetamines and more in order to improve their ability to fight, stay awake, and win the war.

M'Benga made a future drug that does all this which he prefers people don't use but keeps it just in case he has to save people or survive battles.

That's all the explanation I need. Old Trek didn't give us even that much most of the time - just treknobabble.

I look forward to seeing someone write in retrospect a deep dive into a comparison of M'Benga and Bashir in wartime. The two felt the same emotions, dealt with the same decisions, and had to deal with tough choices and the inherent struggle of the Hippocratic oath in wartime yet both of them handled it so incredibly differently.

That is a Daystrom essay I look forward to reading.

Such an amazing scene and seeing it written makes me respect those two actors so much more. There isn't really a lot said on the page but their acting really sold that scene and made it spectacular.

I can't imagine being the writer on the show who wrote that and then saw it acted by those two. I'd have thought I was the best writer ever but the writer had a great analogy and it was the actors that made it sing (and director, editor, producers, etc.)

The cloaking device wasn't originally part of the design - they borrowed it from the Romulans for use in the Gamma Quadrant exclusively.

The idea of a supremely over-powered and over-weaponed "little ship" does make sense as it can fly circles around the cube and let loose on it but it really only makes sense to me if they planned on making multiples and just bombarding the Borg ships. They were even designed for a skeleton crew so this tracks if they're considering loss of life. The small crew that runs a Defiant class versus the full crew compliment of a Galaxy, for instance, is a massive difference.

I believe it's even mentioned that they scrapped building more Defiants as the prototype was bursting apart at the seems which is why they let Sisko take it. Only O'Brien was able to figure out how to stabilize it and thus more were built after.

And him doing his walk away from Una the second time. And so many of Tawnie's mannerisms like in the shuttle where she kinda strikes a pose before getting caught. And Quaid's mannerisms and screaming with Spock in the lab.

Those two really worked to make realistic versions of the silliness they have in LDS and it was magnificent. I caught so much more on second watch.

Definitely watch the Ready Room episode. They talk about a lot of this. I remember another interview where Tawnie Newsom, I think, talks about how Frakes, Quaid, and her just kinda took over the set because they were all nerding out, being silly, and improv-ing a bunch because that's what they do on LDS.

I created a Mii on my switch that I used in the switch sports game. Apparently not many people realized that as my character was hilarious and everyone else had the standard models.

I was in my mid 20s and took home a woman from a bar in her mid 30s. I was going down on her and she grabbed me by the hair and lifted me up so we were looking eye to eye and said "poundsignbuttstuff...what's my name?"

I was dumbfounded. We kept going but she had a really good laugh about it.