Usually, but I love the optimistic fanfare of the TNG intro, and it has a habit of drawing me in.

Wholesome

Ah, damn. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll delete.

She’s adorable!

They weren’t boy scouts as kids.

tugh pomlIj ngeH!

I depends on how much you’re willing to put down.

This is a quality shower thought.

Impressively enough, my algorithm seems to automatically filter out all the videos that my toddler watches. I never get them recommended, like it knows “hey, this is just a dad playing this for his kid to watch - we don’t need to recommend him Elmo.”

Maybe the last 2 can split it

Space Force makes sense now

Maybe he’ll write about his struggles for others to understand.

Yeah, I’m not going to trust anything in the article, but I have to admit that it was a fun rabbit hole to fall down for a moment.

Yeah, this meme was the first I’ve heard of it, but from some googling, apparently conspiracy forums have been obsessed with this weird “censored” pattern in space since like 6 or 7 years ago. Reading old threads that were using this to predict the end of the world in 2017 while it’s currently 2024 is pretty entertaining.

Found this page that gives an overview: https://themanilafolder.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Dragon

Oh man, I’ve done that plenty of times. He yells a lot, but somehow it’s relaxing.

This is why I love TNG so much. Even though TOS is the original that laid the groundwork for everything, TNG took that “boundless optimism” and ran with it. Watching TNG inspires me to continue to self-improve and encourage it in others.

Yeah, there’s a singular implied “universal morality” throughout Star Trek of accepting diversity and learning to not impose on other civilizations or each other on the basis of one’s biological differences or culture, even for Klingons! I’d say the rest is hard to define and subjective, as @ValueSubtracted@startrek.website said above, but post-scarcity and free agency in life to follow your passions has to be pretty close!