I’m Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness in a very traditional lifestyle in northern Ontario. His first and only language was Ojibway/Cree, he understood English but seldom spoke it as he preferred his our language only.

As a teen in the 90s I loved watched TNG and I watched it as often as I could whenever I could. I never stuck to a schedule and we only had the most basic satellite TV package we could afford at the time. I was so engrossed and loved the show so much that my dad at one point asked me … ‘It’s amazing that people are up there now that are doing all those things’

I had to explain to him that it was all just as show that was fake and that none of it was real.

To me … this is my favourite TNG moment … that the show was so convincing and well performed that it made my dad believe that it was real.

To be fair, my dad was probably the most intelligent person I’ve ever known and an excellent teacher. In his prime, he often just walked into the wilderness with nothing but a knife in the fall and came back midwinter with a stack of furs to trade and make money and then head back out again with very little to survive on. He just wasn’t that aware of what the outside world was all about.

There’s a scene in S2E12 where Picard reveals that Fermat’s Last Theorem still hasn’t been proved. It was proved a few years after the episode came out. I thought that was funny… Also in S2E3 a holodeck hologram becomes sentient. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xzi7qBk6ll8&pp=ygUMdG5nIG1vcmlhcnR5 That one is pretty good.

Shut up, Wesley!

The court scene in Drumhead where Picard refutes accusations of being a traitor by essentially quoting an IWW mantra and core tenant of Anarchism.

Bonus follow-up discussion with Worf after the trial.

Additional bonus, the IWW still operates to this day, and will gladly help train and support anyone to unionize their workplace, blue collar or white collar.

If we’re including movies: “That was neither honorable nor courageous!”

If not: “One is my name, the other is not.”

I am tired of lies.

THERE ARE 4 LIGHTS!!!

“It never…happened!”