• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    This is La’an Noonien-Singh comforting a young Khan, her ancestor, from the Strange New Worlds episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Khan would grow up to regularly misquote Moby Dick while fighting Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

    (And the meme parodies a line in The Wrath of Khan.)

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      2 months ago

      OK, thanks! As a quasi alien to the Star Trek universe, I humbly accept your explanation!