Not necessarily!

It’s also some good foreshadowing for stuff we don’t find out until literally the last episode.

Much more so. Because the people that aren’t shitlords wind up finding and staying in a stable group, while the people who can’t maintain human relationships get perpetually booted back into the rando pool, so it becomes more and more concentrated awfulness all the time.

I started a campaign where, after 20 years of gaming with this group, we were finally going to have a dragon for a big bad. Then my entire country collapsed irl, destroying the game. It’s like the universe abhors actually having dragons in your D&D game.

I still play D&D…3.5.

Polyamory. Polygamy means multiple marriage and is illegal. Also commonly associated with culty non-consensual stuff instead of consenting adults

Herd them ahead of you to clear traps

Dan Savage at least has repeatedly apologized and cut that shit out a long time ago.

protip: don’t cross them off, write who they are on the list (eg “Rivermeadow blacksmith”) so you can remember when the players come back to them a million sessions later

Gorn have ballsacks? Aren’t they lizards, so they should be internal.

Oh god I’ve turned into one of the snitties haters haven’t I

Found the bard

Honorable mention to some of the aliens they interact with in Enterprise, before the Universal Translator was fully working. Though technically they weren’t the Federation yet.

Actually, progressing in an interesting if not promising way. There’s been a ton of debate about how to handle the Ireland/North Ireland border due to brexit, and what they’ve recently settled on is basically creating a sea border between North Ireland and the rest of England so that the land border between Ireland and North Ireland can stay unrestricted. I’m not an expert, but this guy is and he’s made several videos about it I like: https://www.youtube.com/@williamcfox/videos

I instantly love this image, what’s it from? Some kind of Tomb Raider comic?

Well with Data it’s different, they didn’t know how to make a copy of him, only papa did and it took him most of a lifetime.

Transporter shenanigans are, admittedly, just something you gotta hand-wave.

Maybe the academy is just a terrible educational institution. Basically all we see of it is weird mind games, like simulated terrorist attacks and tests you automatically fail… Maybe Picard thought of the gardener as a mentor because he was the only adult there not fucking with him.

After awhile, Poseiden comes and kicks your ass until you stop. Live by the magic sword, die by the magic sword.

No, they relinquished Tarak Nor

I like the mental image of a dwarf ship that’s 6 ft tall and got 47 masts to make up for it.

In fairness, there was a whole episode of ds9 about obrien struggling with his trauma.

Maybe their therapy techniques are as advanced as their other forms of medicine?