There’s also an episode I recall in which Riker spent some time aboard a Klingon ship and he learned to enjoy Klingon food. So that might explain why Worf is the only one who lives those eggs.
Yeah, I definitely remember that one. Maybe he’s taste-blind.
If I encounter a cuisine that’s famously hated by another group, and I’m feeding it to members of that other group, I warn them first. I’m not going to make durian custard for a bunch of Minnesotans without telling them what the fruit is first; nor will I make Klingon cuisine for a bunch of humans without contextualizing the meal.
I kinda like the idea that he has no idea what good food tastes like, doesn’t realize his shortcomings, and has built himself up in his own mind as some sort of master of subtlety and flavor. It seems very Riker
Yeah, I was watching one of the “The Trouble With Troi’s Mother” episodes, and it seems that when Picard is playing private eye on the holodeck, he’s got a huge bar tab because he keeps forgetting to include currency in his costume.
Not to extend a hijack, but it always bugged me that vaporizing a person in the ST universe just caused them to rather benignly evaporate. More likely, seems to me, would be something akin to a steam boiler explosion, with a blast radius of twenty meters or so. Definitely something one would not want to do in an enclosed space.
“All phasers emit a beam of energy similar to the light beam emitted by a Laser [sic], but of a pulsating nature that can be “phased” to interfere or interact with the wave pattern of any molecular form. … They can be set to dematerialize (converting matter into energy), disrupt (breaking down cohesion), heat (increasing molecular velocity), or stun (neural impact).”
Actually, an exceedingly large nuclear device. If the reason a person disappears when he’s shot by a phaser is because he has been completely converted to energy, the energy released would be over 1 billion megatons of TNT. The largest nuclear device ever detonated in real life, the Tsar bomb, released about 60 megatons.
Whoops, correction, I was off by a factor of a million there (computed tons of TNT instead of megatons). The explosion would actually be around 1000 megatons, which is still more than 10 times the size of the Tsar bomb.
Incidentally, I’m making a plain omelette right now. I’m going to use it as a ‘tortilla’ for a sausage-and-cheese wrap. (Basically a sausage-and-cheese omelette rolled up with the ends closed so I can eat it like a burrito.)