fun story: my dad is black but because he’s biracial when his skin is less dark like in the winter he gets a lot of “what are you” questions from every person around him because he had a giant Afro. my dad was a special education teacher with the public school system for what was his entire career. he was assigned to teach in a [gag] open custody jail facility for “criminal youth”. my dad worked there in the 80’s, 90’s and a little until 00’s until it was shut down and he was reassigned to a rural high school to work with autistic kids mostly (but any real developmental disabilities)
when he was teaching in the jail one day, this one student kept harassing him at his desk about “what he was” (which my father couldn’t even answer because he’s not going to tell a traumatized child in his care about his fucked up life as a transracial adoptee) so my dad looked him dead in the eyes and said, “cardassian”. the kid asked, “wait where is that?” so my dad said as a joke, “if you can find “cardassia” on this map [on a book on his desk] i’ll [buy you a pizza or something inconsequential]” and the kid sat all day researching lmao bless kids
all disabled people worldwide, after learning an “anti gravity harness” exists in the trek canon: 👀👀👀
CONTINUITY ERROR i know for a fact a medical officer could cross-check dna in like five seconds flat based on other episodes so this extremely long “picard and his ?son? waiting around for hours for a paternity test” is incongruous with the world of story