Resolutions

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I have never been in a spa or Jacuzzi.

I've also never eaten lobster which is a lot more appealing though with less delightful innuendo.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I think I've had "bits" of lobster in complicated Asian seafood dishes... Although %95 percent of what I thought might be lobster was probably crab.

Is there any other food you can think of that you need a hammer to eat it with?

(Yes, coconuts, never mind, move on.)

 

[Lance]

The entire point of this episode is for a chunk of the fandom to wonder just how long the stranding would have to have been for them to get it on.

HOW LONG?!

I'm gonna say, maybe 60 years.

I think this episode is the reason why the 'romance' between them fizzled away and died a quiet and lonely death.

Working with people, socializing with people, flirting with people during all of those interactions, all of that is a very different proposition to when you actually decide to move in together, and suddenly you realize how annoying all those 'cute' little personality quirks actually are when you're confronted with them 24/7 on a hourly basis.

I reckon by day three Janeway was already missing her holodeck romance programs, and Chakotay was spending more and more time out in the woods having "alone time" with his spirit guide.

 

[Guy Gardener]

By replicating a series of parabolic mirrors, they could make a holodeck.

 

[Melakon]

I've also never eaten lobster which is a lot more appealing though with less delightful innuendo.

Is this some kind of dietary restriction? I would think lobster is common for Australia and nearby islands. Though I've only had it two or three times myself, and never a whole one, just tails.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I think I've had "bits" of lobster in complicated Asian seafood dishes... Although %95 percent of what I thought might be lobster was probably crab.

Is there any other food you can think of that you need a hammer to eat it with?

(Yes, coconuts, never mind, move on.)

Pipis. Mussels in the shell sometimes. MARROW, crack it baby!

You need a chainsaw to cut open a durian. You wouldn't want to use a hammer because it would be like blowing up a corpse.

Macadamias!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I've also never eaten lobster which is a lot more appealing though with less delightful innuendo.

Is this some kind of dietary restriction? I would think lobster is common for Australia and nearby islands. Though I've only had it two or three times myself, and never a whole one, just tails.

We don't have lobsters, they hang out where it is cold. If it's on the menu it is probably imported. I think I have seen it once.

We do have crayfish, but those are different and not red. And of course crabs. But the lobsters you have bibs with and pour garlic butter on and exclaim over, never had them.

 

[Makarov]

I like this episode because of the questions it brings up for me. The idea of a couple of Star Trek characters suddenly being stuck without their ship for possibly the rest of their lives. It brings up questions like.. just what are these people like when they aren't on the ship? Just how does a person "improve themself" as Picard says, outside of the important starfleet missions? Aside from the obvious answer like, finding a way back onto a ship. That's pretty interesting to me. Of course the episode doesn't really explore it at all, but still.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I think this episode is the reason why the 'romance' between them fizzled away and died a quiet and lonely death.

Working with people, socializing with people, flirting with people during all of those interactions, all of that is a very different proposition to when you actually decide to move in together, and suddenly you realize how annoying all those 'cute' little personality quirks actually are when you're confronted with them 24/7 on a hourly basis.

This is why people should skip that part and not move in together.

I like this episode because of the questions it brings up for me. The idea of a couple of Star Trek characters suddenly being stuck without their ship for possibly the rest of their lives. It brings up questions like.. just what are these people like when they aren't on the ship? Just how does a person "improve themself" as Picard says, outside of the important starfleet missions?

Janeway improved herself with animal husbandry and Chak improved himself with wannabe husbandry.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Google says otherwise.

Google is known to lie.

But it is likely that the Australian Rock Lobster is indigenous to Australia maybe.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/wa-rock-lobster-breaks-record-price/4934220

90 AU Dollars per kg?

Fuck that.

I'll stick to imitation crab-meat from the takeaways.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

But that is not the big red lobster of Maine! The real lobster!

And I only eat in cheap asian places, the bottom tier, which is full of real crab but no lobster.

Whatever, it's hardly on my to do list. Well it's ahead of jacuzzis but so is whale meat.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You can hire a spa pool for an entire week, for less than the cost of half a kg of lobster.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

When I was a child I once saw canned hippo in a store on some island.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Would that be classified as seafood?

8 minutes under (fresh) water makes it partially aquatic, right?

 

[Kobayshi Maru]

I often go vacationing in Brittany (France) where the Lobster is cooked divinely. The Lobster and more generally the seafood is to them, what the Bouillabaisse is to Marseilles. There is also a delicious squid dish there.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I am totally meh on squid which is in every other dish here and in every cuisine and is just squidding about in its boring rubbery whiteness. I do like octopus though, the tentacles, which have a great seafoody flavour.

I am cooking seafood soup as I type. It has salmon, hoki, squid and mussels in it.

It seems pointless to pay huge sums to eat lobster in a country where most people have never eaten it. But you have inspired me KM (such wonderful initials!) because I would rather have this lobster eating experience in France than Maine and it seems more likely to happen. In my fantasy where I jet about eating things.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Silly.

You eat Lobster, so that you are better than everyone else.

Don't you want to be better than every one else?

Sure you do.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

No, because it is too much pressure. Why be at the top when you can be at the bottom and every time you do the smallest thing you've improved.

Okay here is my soup, I am eating it now:

Time to prepare and cook: 15 minutes.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hello new wallpaper.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It is a little Pollock-y.