But we have Red Dwarf and The Orville for silliness. To me it feels out of place in Star Trek.

What? No relevant XKCD?

Looking at you Strange New Worlds.

It’s as welcome as a stealth mission in an action video game.

Good point. They should have all their colonisers and their descendants return to the origin of their ancestors and turn the land back over to the original owners, right? No one should still be benefitting from it.

Is he leaving by plane? Be a real shame if an air defence system had a malfunction.

So we can expect them to be incompatible with the rest of the world and have output measured in electricity-ounces or cups.

And not work very well, or be well made.

Can’t say.

Gallows humour has been used as a coping mechanism for a long time before the internet.

No, send the Dalai Lama instead. If it all goes pear shaped he can respawn.

But the keyboard is the computer, mice haven’t been invented yet and where do I plug the tape deck in?

Wow, it’s like you can’t trust a thing they say.

Seems a bit cruel, couldn’t you have used a lure or worms or something instead of your father?

There’s only so many times I want to watch the same movie, so my library would be limited

We need Bluray/DVD rental stores back.

Sorry, too busy. Why can’t my manager fill you in on my current projects?

Sydney actually, completely missed the Brisbane bit.

Nah, looks like Australian Broadcasting Company, not British.

These days we call it bruhmism.

Okay, and the Irish caused the starvation during the potato famine?

The what, mind flayer?

What ho old bean, I believe you might have meant Jeeves and Wooster, not old Bertie twice.

Pip pip!