Scott decides to respond with a barrage of photon torpedoes

I disagree with this characterization. Scotty’s line is, “We can’t fire full phasers with our screens up, and We can’t lower our screens with their disruptors on us. Of course I could treat them to a few dozen photon torpedoes.” From the tone and delivery I took it as an expression of frustration rather than a serious idea he had, let alone one he had already decided on.

General Order 24: An order to destroy all life on an entire planet.

Which is a really weird thing for Starfleet to have a protocol for. It makes more sense if we assume that GO24 is actually some kind of quarantine/sterilization procedure intended to prevent the spread of dangerous life forms.

Kirk hails the Enterprise informing them to standby to transport the party in ten minutes or carry out General Order 24 on schedule.

If he was bluffing in the first place then he would still be bluffing here. There would be no point in tipping his hand until the situation was under control, which at that point it was not.

Probably my favorite Scotty moment.

And yes, he absolutely was bluffing. Montgomery Scott would not kill innocent civilians, even under direct orders. Recall that in this same episode Scotty refused a direct order to lower the shields and was fully willing to accept the consequences. (See also Star Trek 2009 where Scotty resigns rather than violate his professional ethics.)

I also like how Uhura reacts. She heard Kirk give General Order 24 but didn’t connect that with destroying the civilization below until Scotty utters his threat. This reinforces my headcanon that General Order 24 is actually a public health ordinance that was never intended to be used as a threat.

So the pharmacist says, “I’ve got just the thing to stop that coffin!”

You’re hired.

What are the CO2 canisters for?

Which one?

Your neighbor’s open wifi.

Generally, a preliminary injunction will be called for if the action is harmful and irreversible, if delaying it while the question is resolved wouldn’t cause significant problems for the party being sued, and if the requesting party is likely to win the lawsuit anyway.

You can take a religious oath (Bible optional) or you can make a non-religious affirmation.

“Did you get all that?”

Yes

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When I googled that was the list I got, but I know that California, at least, still has in-person voting too.

California has “universal mail-in voting”, not “mail-only”. Meaning every voter is eligible to vote by mail, not that in-person voting is unavailable.

What states are “by mail only”?

The lunch arrangements will vary greatly by age/grade level. A high school is more likely to have the canteen style while an elementary school is more likely to have the cafeteria style. In either case, bringing a lunch from home is also reasonably common.

And TNG did break its own rules with Moriarty.

My headcanon is that Dr. Zimmerman and Lt. Barclay used the Moriarty program to discover how to make sentient holograms, and that’s why sentient holograms started showing up everywhere.

No matter how well you understand the passage of time in the abstract it’s a shock the first time you meet a full grown adult, with their own keys and everything, but you can remember what you were doing in the year they were born.

Ha. An Android phone.

Or just watch DS9.

Symbiosis: The crew must mediate between a planet of addicts and another planet of dealers.

Loud as a Whisper: The crew are ferrying a famous mediator to a warzone, but after his aides are killed the crew must step in.

The Vengeance Factor: The crew must mediate between the queen of a planet and a group of rebels who left the planet 100 years ago

The Price: The crew host negotiations for control of a wormhole

The Outrageous Okona: The crew rescue a charming rogue, but two angry fathers show up looking for him.

Too Short a Season: The crew deals with the ramifications of a badly botched diplomatic negotiation that was handled decades earlier by the guest-starring badmiral.