#035 - Women do a lot of things, Wes.
Hey, it’s been a while since we had the whole cast in one strip! Everybody but Worf, of course; he’s practicing some Klingon opera in his room, being extra loud because he secretly hopes someone will notice and check in on him because he’s kind of upset that everybody’s playing the game and too busy to hang out.
But yeah, I felt like they were maybe getting restless with this whole vision quest sequence. Geordi better wrap this up before Picard starts into some protracted exegesis on e.g. the structural themes of 19th C. military novels in an attempt to really impress his fake dead wife.
Also, you have to give Riker credit: he may be a straight-up hound dog, but this dog hunts. He’s a model dirty-Kirk analogue, really; he’s got that whole wild stallion eros thing going on but he’s a smart guy, attentive, tuned into the details. Boldly going, boldly coming, etc. Well-honed erotic situational awareness, like a ninja.
He’s the Chunk Norris of having sexy times in space.
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I'm wondering if Picard deserves some credit for getting into character, however tediously; Ben Sisko really was the kind of guy who knew how to cook, and I'm not sure whether we saw much if any evidence of Picard having that skillset over the course of TNG. Knows something about vintering, sure, but spending two hours over a hot stove? Vibes to me like the kind of guy who appreciates a well-cooked meal but hasn't spent much time doing the cooking himself.
RIP Rene Auberjonois, the actor who played Odo. I remember being very proud of that little riff on the eggplant dish Sisko mentions in the DS9 pilot.
Good riff from the comments:
"The beauty of Auberjonois stew is that it can take many forms."
"And it disagrees with almost everyone."
Comments rightly ribbed me for "Chunk" Norris in the post text. I'm not above fixing an inconsequential typo in those as I go through this strip-reposting process, but I'm gonna leave that.