Star Trek: The Next Generation: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Dr McCoy:''' Now she's a new ship, but she's got the right name, y'hear? Treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home.}}

* [[Start X to Stop X]]: In one episode, a scientist intentionally causes a tear in space with a self-destructed warp drive, just to convince the Federation to stop using warp travel so she can prevent that very type of tear from occurring elsewhere.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: * In yet another ''[[Star Trek]]'' film, the commanders of a Klingon vessel give the order of "Fire at will." There is an immediate cut to the bridge of their target, the ''Enterprise'', currently commanded by Commander Riker. Will Riker.

** Picard did the same thing in the series during a training exercise.

* [[Still the Eighties]]: Wood paneling. 'Nuff said.

** [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Ishara_Yar Ishara Yar's] haircut also qualifies.

* [[Strange Syntax Speaker]]: The Tamarians, who speak mostly in metaphor. The universal translator can easily deliver the literal meanings, but without knowledge of the myths upon which the sayings are based, it's still near-impossible to understand. <ref> Tamar, when speaking of the lost and remembered. [[Harry Potter|Harry]], with speech beyond the Alley. Picard, his brow furrowed, his mind clouded.</ref>

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: K'Ehleyr. Worf avenges her almost immediately afterwards.

** Diana Muldaur, who played Dr. Pulaski in season 2, had two previous spots on the original series (as different characters, no less.)

** Christopher Collins, AKA [[The Starscream|Chris Latta]] played a Klingon Captain in ''A Matter of Honor'' and later plays a Pakled in ''The Samaritan Snare''. Might be more of a case of You ''Sound'' Familiar.

* [[Your Head Asplode]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REoN1sEYVZo Not for the faint of heart]

* [[Your Mom]]: Riker invokes this when speaking to a holographic representation of Captain Rice in "Arsenal of Freedom", which is trying to get as much tactical information about the ''Enterprise'' and its mission as possible. When the ''faux'' Drake asks who sent them there, Riker says, "Your mother. She was worried about you."

* [[Your Normal Is Our Taboo]]: Riker falls in love with an alien woman who gets really hated by her own people for their love. Not because he's a human, but because he's a man. Her culture require her and her partner to both be intergender. Essentially, it's inverted homophobia and inverted heterophobia, a fear of having a gender at all. Which is also a cisphobia, an inverted transphobia.

* [[You See, I'm Dying]]: [[Evil Twin]] android Lore is about to walk out on his creator Dr. Soong when the latter reveals that he is dying — as Lore, for all his faults, does have emotions, this makes him stop.

** The Original Series was, naturally, far worse. Not just aesthetically - searches of the computer database for particular terms also seem to be conducted manually- ''by hand''- and can take hours (such as in ''The Naked Now''), suggesting that the Enterprise's computer lacks the handy indexing of a modern search engine. In TNG, searches were generally instant or a few seconds, even for a species' entire recorded history or similar, unless they had to process a truly colossal amount of data.

** In-universe. After Wolf 359 ''everything'' changed. The Federation in early series was depicted as filled with [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|eternal optimists]]. After Wolf 359, the Federation leaders are shown to be clearly more [[Knight in Sour Armour|jaded]] and should they have to, will not hesistate to remind everyone just ''why'' they are one of the [[Good Is Not Nice|dominant]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|powers]] of the Alpha Quadrant.

 

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