In principle I think it is an interesting narrative idea.

Fast ships also mean that rescuers can get to you faster. In any case, escape pod/emergency shuttles offer a better chance of survival than nothing.

Not a lot of imagination in the Michelle family, eh?

It is so that everyone can experience the dignity of work.

But floating in the ocean in a lifeboat with limited food, slow travel, and no weapons is like floating in space in a shuttle with limited food, sub-light travel, and no weapons.

I'd like to know what kind of places have jukeboxes with Tiny Tim on them.

Dunkelman understood the nature of the show he was on, and treated it with the ironic distain it deserved.

Wait…you can make a living just watching TV?

I couldn't decide between "Drift Away" or "In the Arms of the Angels".

In this case, isn't the spoiler warning itself a spoiler?

That was The Walters.

Like money, pooping has been eliminated in the 23rd century.

The Federation is a bunch of cucks.

Amen.

Jeffrey Combs is a national treasure. A weird national treasure.

I'm not clear why one couldn't use a transporter to produce a vast clone army. The notion that you can only assemble one person from one pattern is pretty silly. (Heck, the replicators copy stuff, and they seem like essentially small transporters.)

Eh, I don't know that anyone else isn't an empty clay pot now.

I've tried to forget about it too.

Or lifeboats would be useless on cruise ships.

Like we have stairs in skyscrapers.