Top 10 TNG episode for me and has one of the best “oh shit we really doin sci-fi” moments in TNG:
CRUSHER: Here’s a question you shouldn’t be able to answer. What is the nature of the universe?
COMPUTER: The universe is a spheroid region seven hundred and five metres in diameter.
Top 10 TNG episode for me and has one of the best “oh shit we really doin sci-fi” moments in TNG:
You’d think with their warp tech they’d have figured out at least the shape of the universe.
They struggle to even go to different quadrants of a single galaxy. There are trillions of galaxies.
That’s not how science works. We have a few ideas of how the universe is shaped now, and we’ve never gotten past the moon.
So what? We’ve always had ideas about how it was shaped. Maybe it’s a really hard problem.