treknobabble
quantumdude
treknobabble

My impression is that swearing in general is less of a thing in the 23rd C. Remember how Spock asks Kirk in ST IV: The Voyage Home about his recent use of “more colorful metaphors?” Kirk explains that it’s how people in the 20th C. talk, that he’s trying to blend in. His lack of skill at these “colorful metaphors”

(Sorry it’s taken me so many, well, years to respond.)
I don’t think the Gideons [Gideonians? Gideonites? Gideoni?] seem that different from typical American right-wingers. You know, those ignorant-and-proud-of-it, every-sperm-is-sacred types who are only too happy to support stuff like reacting to some other