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    5 days ago

    I’ve always considered the lack of space drugs to be a network TV concession. Pike uses deadly parsley to cook, I’m sure there are some wild substances you can get on just about any station, and they’ve probably made it into an art form on Earth

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      They also still have characters like Raffi who ruin their lives with drugs. You’re telling me in the 24th century, you can create an entirely new spine for someone or make perfect clones or come up with a cure for an ancient disease in a week but you can’t cure basic drug addiction?

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        5 days ago

        She did? I thought she was just an off-grid hippie. I didn’t find Picard particularly memorable though

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          Yeah, that was in the first season and why she stopped being Picard’s assistant. Then there was a callback to it in the fourth season where she had to take a drug as part of her covert activities with Worf.