Episode Trivia

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The tea used in the Klingon tea ceremony is quite deadly to humans, but Pulaski is able to synthesise an antidote.
   
Klingons are quite prolific at writing love poetry.
   
Earth was recovering from the Third World War in the early 22nd Century.
   
The "European Hegemony" was a loose alliance and one of the main proponents for a World Government. Records of spacecraft launches in this period are very vague.
   
The S.S. Mariposa launched on 27 November 2123 for the Ficus Sector under Captain Walter Granger. It's cargo included 225 Yoshimitsu Computers.
   
A major philosopher in 2123 was Liam Dieghan who founded the Neo-Transcendentalists and advocated a "return to a simpler life in which one lived in harmony with nature".
   
The Enterprise leaves Starbase 73 to respond to the Bringloidi Distress call.
   
Worf is suffering from the Klingon childhood ailment "rop'ngor".
   
Danilo claims the replicated whisky has no "bite", so Worf replicates some Klingon Chech'tluth which seems to do the trick.
   
Geordi can apparently detect when some humans are lying through his VISOR which can pick up blushing, pupil dilation, pulse and breathing pattern.

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