Why did the subtitles always spell it as "high jinks" instead of hijinks? Is that some dialectal variant I was unaware of?

29k km didn't seem that far in terms of "more than two days away" space travel.

I liked Pelia's noodle hair. I also guess I never particularly noticed her bare feet before, now that Starfleet Academy started emphasizing it as a Lanthanite trait or quirk. Or was it not a thing before and they made it a thing for this season?

When Scotty got free from the weight, I thought the answer would have been Looney Tunes style cartoon physics. Like they can win, but so long as it's a gag / funny. Maybe they tried doing that and it didn't quite land.

I liked the insight into Orion culture, and the way the second in command acted. Sometimes I too just want to be told what to do. Like a vacation for my brain.

The "it was all a dream" felt like a betrayal. Just kind of wasting my time. At least Spock was developing a little bit.

"There are no bras in space." ~ George Lucas

Pike should have just said one "Beep."

I found it peculiar how the Klingons were saying there was no honor in the singing—considering how into Opera the can be known to be—up until I heard how they got the most egregious of the autotune.

Don't social media prevent 13 year olds and under from signing up anyway? They ask for your age but it doesn't seem to keep kids from lying about their age and going on facebook, instagram, twitter, TikTok, etc, regardless. That's disregarding the idea that a child could just use their parent's account. What's the enforcement besides the honor system and a vague threat of being sued? I am failing to see a difference between the state of things now and what that bill wants to introduce.

I liked how William Boimler was so done with Multiverse fatigue. Felt topical given the current Hollywood trend.

"Sodium is not a full life" "Maybe it is for me, dammit!" Felt this in my soul.

It was hard to explain why, but it definitely had a "comic from over a decade ago" feel that I noticed before seeing the 2011 post date.

I like it when the Ferengi stay on brand.

If you think that's needlessly specific, have you ever seen the Wookiepedia page about "breasts?"

Then again, Memory Alpha also has a page on breasts.

I'll always find it a little weird how pop culture settled on making Dwarves vaguely Scottish when their origin is as Nordic and Germanic mountain spirits.

Finally an Ortegas episode that isn't a simple "I fly the ship."

Never ask a Hobbit what they got in their pocketses. Bad time will be had by all.

Mariner really shouldn't be pulling out those knives, especially the ones with serrated hooks on the back. That just seems like a recipe for severe bleeding.

Apparently there is a deleted/alternate scene with more straight forward Klingon Operatic singing that will be included in bonus features.

The Ice Debris field have me Titan AE vibes, especially with making a new planet at the end.

I've been catching myself calling it the activation rune instead of the power button.

"We'll have to lick it off" had me reeling.

I found the lurkey quite funny this episode, even if it was a bit of an embellished and exaggerated character.

And my goodness, I love the guest star that they found on the time dilation planet in this episode: The Vasquez Rocks.

This conversation quickly switched from from etymology to entomology.

add +2 to the "some sort/kind of" count

La'an saying "fascinating" makes me wonder if Spock is rubbing off on her.

For some reason I knew Pelia was going to say "heebie jeebies"

You made it so.