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I heard Trek Central suggest this, but I’m not so sure.

If we’re looking at a Prime Directive violation, we’re looking at the interference with the social development part, or on a more granular level, interfering with the internal affairs of a civilization.

Sure, Bragh was a high ranking Klingon being part of the Oversight Council, but the death of Bragh was between Ma’ah and Bragh. Boims and Mariner participated in the Rite of J’ethurgh, but that wasn’t interfering in Klingon affairs, no more than Picard participating as Worf’s cha’DIch was. Technically, Ma’ah accepted them as part of his quv beq, so they were invited in.

And at the end, as far as Boims and Mariner is concerned, the Rite was over and completed - Bragh being a sore loser and the subsequent fight had nothing to do with them and they didn’t participate in it - only witnessed it. Nor was the fight a foreseeable consequence of Mariner trying to get Ma’ah reinstated so she could get a Klingon Captain to assist in her mission, and especially not Bragh’s death, which was only because he literally stabbed Ma’ah in the back after yielding (by granting Ma’ah his captaincy back).

So I really don’t see the problem here. At worst they were bystanders to the death.

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Here you go!

Someone suggested Stardate 06107.2, which works out to February 8, 2329, which might be Freeman’s birthday.

Well, the Genesis Planet did do something similar in ST III (keeping it vague for spoilers), but that one had a body to work with.

As for 06107.2, it could be a birthday (June 10, 1972), but the only reference I could find to that was the birthday of a background actor on ENT named Bobby Pappas.

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It’s definitely not coincidental, considering that “The Inner Light” is one of the most famous episodes of the series. It’s a pun, a play on words in relation to the TNG episode title. It doesn’t have to have a thematic connection for it to be a title.

Now that you mention it, the design is actually also close to the Academy Training Ships that Nova Squadron were using for the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver.

T’Lyn did mention an “encounter” with a Klingon and Pakled ship to Mariner, but Mariner may not have connected that with the Cerritos.

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Of course Kirk is familiar with the works of DH Lawrence, one of the horniest poets ever.

I think you got most of it covered except for living materials, which can’t be replicated because of the resolution limitations of replicators - like cargo transporters they operate on molecular resolution instead of the quantum resolution required for live transport. Gagh is a good example; because it ideally needs to be live it can’t be replicated in its intended serving form but has to be kept in barrels in cargo.

The other limitation would be stuff that’s prohibited by program not to be replicated, like weapons, banned substances, although that’s of course a coding issue rather than a materials issue.

Also, to correct a common misconception/inaccuracy repeated above - replicators don’t convert matter to energy or vice versa. They operate by dismantling the raw material for replication like a transporter does then reassembling them in new forms. The underlying technology is the same as the transporter, except that it rejigs the matter stream into a new configuration.

Which is why the question as to whether you want a holodeck or a replicator strikes me as a bit off because replicator technology is part of the way holodecks work. When you eat food on the holodeck it’s very likely that it’s replicated food, not a hard light illusion. Holograms of people can also either be hard light constructs or meat puppets manipulated by force fields, depending on the program and its requirements.

So if you ask me - holodeck or replicator, I’d choose holodeck because that gets me both the entertainment value and the ability to make objects and food.

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It would if he had visible genitals in that sequence, but he doesn’t.

In LD: “Second Contact”, Mariner says she was once trapped in a sentient cave for weeks: “You ever been trapped in a sentient cave? That’s a dark place that knows things.”

Oh the subspace outside is rippling

And the short range sensor’s tripping

I suspect there’s a cloaked ship, so

Make it show

Make it show

Make it show

Send a tachyon pulse to check it

If we’re lucky we’ll detect it

Then we’ll give it a tetryon glow, to

Make it show

Make it show

Make it show

When their ship is at last revealed

Arm the phasers and lock as they pass

We will watch as they flee the field

With a photorp up their ass

So the Romulans keep on flying

As we wave at them goodbye-ing

Till the next time they have a go

Make it show

Make it show

Make it show

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The back pain due to injury is true, but the reason he sat down that way isn’t because of that. Frakes confirmed in an interview that he did it because he thought that would showcase Riker’s cockiness. Nobody stopped him from doing it, so it stuck.

The back injury, however, is the reason behind the “Riker Lean”.

I wasn’t completely certain as well, but the Canadian city name and the registry number (Vancouver was NCC-40492) cinched it.