Funny / Star Trek: Federation

• Picard et al. are negotiating with DaiMon Pol for the Borg artifact. Dr. Crusher suggested during the strategy planning session that they imply the Federation had an inventory of Borg artifacts already.
  Pol: If the Federation has other pieces of Borg technology, then why has the Alliance not heard about it?
  Riker: Perhaps because the Federation pays Ferengi spies more than the Ferengi do.
  • Extra Credit: They don't tell us why DaiMon Pol is upset by that comment; that spies would turn traitor, or that the Ferengi Alliance isn't paying their spies enough. One suspects it is the latter.
• The Ent-D's bridge crew get into a discussion on a Snipe Hunt Riker sent Data on while Picard was running around with Vash in "Captain's Holiday".
  Data: I was not successful, although I did hold the bag and call for the snipe exactly as Commander Riker had instructed me. Snipe appear to be exceptionally well evolved for remaining unseen. Even the ship's computer has no record of— (Riker bursts out laughing.) Captain?
  Riker: I'm sorry, Data. It's just that, well, there are no such things as snipe.
  Wesley: What?
  Data: Have you also hunted snipe, Wesley?
  Wesley: Geordi told me—
  Riker: Eyes on the board, Mr. Crusher!
  Wesley: Aye, sir.
  Data: At least that would explain why no one has ever seen one.
• From a Meta perspective, the fact that an Oberth-class science ship- generally seen as the weakest ship in all of Starfleet- blew up a Romulan warbird in a single hit.

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