huck untucked

the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don't seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs

the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years

the Tellarites, who don't like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and

humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

It's even funnier because of the other joke which is that Majel Barrett ALSO plays the computer, so it's just like:

The whole thing was Garak's plan from the beginning. Garak's contacts. Garak's espionage. Garak's diplomacy. Garak's technology. Every step of the plot was executed by Garak, and he executed it perfectly. Sisko didn't make Garak do the dirty work--Garak made Sisko do the clean work. He couldn't have accomplished this plan without Federation authority and that's probably the only reason he offered to "help" Sisko instead of running off on his own, like the time he bombed his own shop or tried to wipe out the Founders.

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

ENT: Phlox has given you the very important assignment of helping him care for his menagerie, and you grow quite fond of his pyrithian bat, almost completely unaware of the scans that are being performed as he synthesizes a cure.

TOS: Dr. McCoy irascibly declares that he's "a doctor, not a babysitter!" But as soon as the captain is gone he winks at you and says, "See, now I only have to say that to him 'cause he acts like a kid." Nurse Chapel turns out to be really good at word games (except for when Mr. Spock comes in, but you don't blame her because he scares you too.)

TNG: Wesley takes you on a playdate, Troi shares some ice cream with you and Data initiates several games to pass the time during his off-hours. It might be the most fun you've ever had. When you finally get back to sickbay, where Dr. Crusher tuts at the sugar crash - deftly administering the cure as though it didn't take her all day to find - you sleepily proclaim that you want to do it again.

DS9: You didnt know that Julian had a teddy bear. You also didn't know his team won the sector championships for raquetball, or that Chief O'Brien accientally got worshipped as a god, or about the time the senior officers got stuck in a game, or when Keiko found a plant that could change your color and Captain Sisko was purple for a whole week, or that Constable Odo lost ... zzzzzZZZ

Today in 1989: "Evolution" (TNG)

Today in 1995: "Non Sequitur" (VOY)

Today in 1996: "The Swarm" (VOY)