I watched a couple episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine last night on DVD that had arrived earlier in the day from Netflix. Two things amused me. First, there was the following exchange:
QUARK: Why can’t you take after your friend here? He knows enough to stay out of Starfleet. Even a human can see that there are a lot more profitable opportunities out there for a young man with ambition.
NOG: Uncle, he wants to be a writer. There’s no profit in that.
Which I guess was the writers having a little fun at their own expense. And second, there was the realization that the Star Trek universe is no longer one in which Fermat’s last equation still hasn’t been solved.