That drawing just looks like Tina from Bob’s burgers
Human butts are too…fragile.
Bob’s Gagh.
Don’t have a crap attack
OOOOOOooooOooooOoooo!
When in Rome, Mr. Worf.
When where, sir?
Worf: “I am told I was raised on Earth.”
Worf’s parents were the super-sheltering homeschool types.
They were “teddy bear with fangs” people, not cat people.
Worf grew up on the farming colony of Gault with the Rozhenko family. They later moved to Earth when he was a teenager, but he didn’t live there for too long before joining Starfleet.
Yeah, fair enough. But there were still a bunch of humans on that dirt-farming planet, right? I guess maybe they weren’t allowed to have cats, for some reason. But I dunno. I know what would happen in the United States right now, if someone tried to ban cats. It would get real ugly, real fast, for whoever tried to pull that shit.
So I still say, if Worf hung out with humans for any chunk of time, he should have seen cats. Or at least, like, a shitload of vintage cat memes and videos. Those would still be going around on all the Earth communications networks, for sure. It’s a huge part of human culture.
You can’t just bring cats to random planets, they’re invasive.
Gault has very restrictive interplanetary customs laws protecting songbirds and people with cat allergies.
Gault outsources their songbird protection to these guys so you really don’t want to fuck around importing a feline species:
fwiw: the United States also doesn’t exist when Worf was growing up. that country (like many others) ceased to exist during/after WWIII.
anyway, that’s not to say Worf had never seen a cat, but that doesn’t mean he’d ever interacted with one or had any familiarity with them. I’ve known humans today who are completely clueless about them.
Yeah. But humans and cats do. A little nuclear war and political rearranging won’t make anyone willing to give up cats.
sure, but like i said, Worf didn’t really live on Earth that long, and there may not really be that many cats living off-world. Even still, since Klingons mostly see pets as food, it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for Worf to have grown up getting too familiar with them, especially while struggling with his “warrior identity”.
Not to keep arguing, but he understood that pet targs were a thing. Although, now that I think about it, I don’t know if they eventually eat those, too.
Klingons regularly eat targ. Keeping them as pets is like humans keeping a pig as a pet. Some people do it, but it’s uncommon.
Yeah, I guess so. I was wondering how long a pet targ might be kept, and now I recall that Martok said he’d had his old targ “since [he] was a boy,” up until the point when his wife was moving into his house, and deliberately let him wander out into the woods, or whatever.
So I guess the Klingons who do have pet targs are definitely keeping them as full pets, and not some weird halfway situation, where they’re a pet until they get fat enough to eat.
Surely he must have seen a cat in his four years at the Academy … in San Francisco… on Earth.
I’ve met lots of people today who are less familiar with cats than Worf.
Just because he coexisted briefly on a planet with cats doesn’t mean he’s an expert in cats. Surely he’s seen or at least heard of a cat, but that doesn’t mean he knows much of anything about them. He was also willing to look after Spot when even Geordi was like, “fuck that shit!”
Wasn’t there a bit of backfilling lore that Earth’s feline population died as a side effect of an biological weapon released during the eugenics wars? They couldn’t bring back the genus because of the ban on genetic engineering. That’s why Worf didn’t know the word. …that would make Spot the rarest animal in the galaxy. Or he’s not a domestic cat at all…
Îf I know what a woolly mammoth is, he should know what a cat is.
Excellent point, but you’re a Lemming, you’re highly literate. Federation Standard might be his second language, I speak a decent amount of Spanish and I don’t know the Spanish word for “woolly mammoth”. 🐂
I just spent a while thinking how to say “woolly mammoth” in my second language, only to realise it’s “woolly mammoth”. English is my second language.
Hi there, slightly off topic, but speaking of translators, I recently saw the Discovery ep. where the translator is broken and I realized not everyone on the ship speaks Federation Standard. And now I can’t stop imagining Picard speaking French the whole time on TNG.
Or everyone using native regional accents instead of Received Pronunciation…it would be glorious chaos, worthy of a season closer/opener two parter…“Dorme vous…Data…dorme vous.”
Now I’m imagining that Scotty’s accent is the best the universal translator can manage to do with what’s actually a stream of incomprehensible Scottish gibberish.
Oh, I like that. That’s fully in my head-canon, now. Scotty is blasting out waves of full-on Scots lingo, and the computer is barely able to chew through it.
He carries around a universal translator
Well, this motherfucker DID switch sexes, turn into an iguana, and suspiciously look like four or five very different orange cats, over the years. So, ya know, you might be onto something.
He’s either a spy for Q or…he’s a Tribble with legs and has another Tribble superglued to his butt.
i remember reading a reddit post several years back postulating that the most rational - and horrifying - explanation was that Spot was, in fact, several different cats in a series, all named “Spot”, representing Datas various failures in pet ownership, and that whenever we saw a “different” one, it was because the previous “Spot” had met some inglorious end off-screen.
:'(
Oh god. The first thing that came to mind was how many “feline supplement” variants Data had programmed into the replicator. The way they’re numbered implies that there were at least 221 of them.
Maybe some of them were WAY TOO EXPERIMENTAL.
Or he’s not a domestic cat at all…
Freakin’ flerkens, man…
I’m all for people being highly pedantic on a forum designed for that type of stuff but common guys, this was just shallow writing for a quick plot point or lazy comic relief.
Well, yeaaahh, but the point is having fun with all of the above. Doesn’t cost ya no latinum. In the words of an ancient pre-warp cultural documentary, “Don’t Be a Hater While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood”.
It wasn’t lazy comic relief, it was a scene that was good enough to stand out in our memories.
That’s a cat? And it is meant to be a pet? That you keep alive?
I thought that was live food meant for eating. Those things are delicious!
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In fairness Spot was a week known menace to everyone but Data. Although I suspect a Vulcan would probably have been fine. As for cats, I believe that even a targ would likely avoid picking a fight with a cat.
Antarctica maybe? Surely not Aoshima, Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoshima%2C_Ehime?wprov=sfla1
