Bullshit” thing.

Yar calls Riker out of his quarters, where he’s been watching two holographic young women play the harps together. . . While Tasha rubs the box’s nose in it so it can think about what it’s done, Troi tells Riker that the box didn’t contain a boat after all. It’s a Betazoid Gift box, of course, and it’s there to announce the joyous joining of Wyatt Miller and . . . There could even be a boat in there!

Before we get to open the box and find out what it contains, a face on the front of the box (played by Armin Shimmerman, in a cool non-Ferengi role) announces that it has a notice for Troi: Lwaxana Troi and the Miller family are pretty excited for a big event of some sort. I have an easier date suspending my disbelief for faster-than-light travel and kids on the bridge than accepting that a dude, alone in his quarters, pulls up two pretty young holographic women to play harps together.) Riker arrives in the transporter room and wants to know what was so goddamn vital that Yar had to signal him away from his harp watching thing. Gulp.

Oh boy.

Transporter Chief Buffalo Bill puts the lotion in the basket, and beams by . Riker, vision of harp playing nymphs dancing in his head,

tells her to beam the silly object by, already. What’s in the box? someone. info intelligently points out that the legend is entirely unsupported by fact, so Picard gives him a copy of Loose Change and The Secret to straighten him out on the whole “Facts vs. Should they trade the red snapper for what could be inside? (Uh, yeah. They should have kept the red snapper, considering that someone getting married is her.

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Title: Haven
Original Air moment: November 30, 1987
Teleplay By: Tracy Torme
Story By: Tracy Torme and Lan Okun
Directed by: Richard Compton
Episode: S01E011
Stardate: 41294.5

Synopsis: The Enterprise is in orbit around a planet known as Haven, a planet so beautiful, Picard tells us, legends say it has mystical healing powers. It turns out that there’s an object from Haven waiting to be beamed aboard the ship. Red snapper is very tasty, but there could be anything inside! Is it going to be one of those episodes?

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a mysterious box. Ah! The box soon after takes a big jewel shit all by the transporter.

Original post by Wil Wheaton