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@BethanyBlack Stephen Fry wrote a cautionary tale about all these kinds of shenanigans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_History_(novel)

When you hear the term "wild animal," the first thing that comes to mind are probably fierce, potentially violent animals like lions, bears or snakes.

But a bunny rabbit nibbling on some grass in the forest, or a crow flying around in a crowded city, are just as much "wild animals."

Once you remember that, it's only a small step to realizing that if animals could use a word to describe this state, that word wouldn't be "wild."

It would be "free."

In many ways, Star Trek was ahead of its time, like in this episode, where they warn about the dangers of Data mining

I'm following the devastating news from Slovenia, where one month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours. It's the biggest natural disaster in the young country's 32-year history. Large parts of the country are flooded. I can't even begin to imagine the time and money needed to recover from this.

But it's hard to find non-Slovenian coverage of this disaster. Press agencies like Reuters and AP are reporting it, but newspapers in, say, Germany or the US aren't picking it up.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/floods-hit-slovenia-forcing-evacuations-disrupting-transport-2023-08-04/

On a Star Trek Federation starship, does the mess hall have a menu item called "Deflector Dish"? If so, what's in it?

#startrek