That drawing just looks like Tina from Bob's burgers
Human butts are too...fragile.
Bob's Gagh.
Don't have a crap attack
When in Rome, Mr. Worf.
When where, sir?
Worf: "I am told I was raised on Earth."
Worf's parents were the super-sheltering homeschool types.
They were "teddy bear with fangs" people, not cat people.
Worf grew up on the farming colony of Gault with the Rozhenko family. They later moved to Earth when he was a teenager, but he didn’t live there for too long before joining Starfleet.
Yeah, fair enough. But there were still a bunch of humans on that dirt-farming planet, right? I guess maybe they weren't allowed to have cats, for some reason. But I dunno. I know what would happen in the United States right now, if someone tried to ban cats. It would get real ugly, real fast, for whoever tried to pull that shit.
So I still say, if Worf hung out with humans for any chunk of time, he should have seen cats. Or at least, like, a shitload of vintage cat memes and videos. Those would still be going around on all the Earth communications networks, for sure. It's a huge part of human culture.
You can't just bring cats to random planets, they're invasive.
fwiw: the United States also doesn't exist when Worf was growing up. that country (like many others) ceased to exist during/after WWIII.
anyway, that's not to say Worf had never seen a cat, but that doesn't mean he'd ever interacted with one or had any familiarity with them. I've known humans today who are completely clueless about them.
Wasn't there a bit of backfilling lore that Earth's feline population died as a side effect of an biological weapon released during the eugenics wars? They couldn't bring back the genus because of the ban on genetic engineering. That's why Worf didn't know the word. ....that would make Spot the rarest animal in the galaxy. Or he's not a domestic cat at all......
Well, this motherfucker DID switch sexes, turn into an iguana, and suspiciously look like four or five very different orange cats, over the years. So, ya know, you might be onto something.
He's either a spy for Q or...he's a Tribble with legs and has another Tribble superglued to his butt.
i remember reading a reddit post several years back postulating that the most rational - and horrifying - explanation was that Spot was, in fact, several different cats in a series, all named "Spot", representing Datas various failures in pet ownership, and that whenever we saw a "different" one, it was because the previous "Spot" had met some inglorious end off-screen.
:'(
Oh god. The first thing that came to mind was how many "feline supplement" variants Data had programmed into the replicator. The way they're numbered implies that there were at least 221 of them.
Maybe some of them were WAY TOO EXPERIMENTAL.
I'm all for people being highly pedantic on a forum designed for that type of stuff but common guys, this was just shallow writing for a quick plot point or lazy comic relief.
Well, yeaaahh, but the point is having fun with all of the above. Doesn't cost ya no latinum. In the words of an ancient pre-warp cultural documentary, "Don't Be a Hater While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood".
It wasn't lazy comic relief, it was a scene that was good enough to stand out in our memories.
That's a cat? And it is meant to be a pet? That you keep alive?
I thought that was live food meant for eating. Those things are delicious!
Antarctica maybe? Surely not Aoshima, Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoshima%2C_Ehime?wprov=sfla1
In fairness Spot was a week known menace to everyone but Data. Although I suspect a Vulcan would probably have been fine. As for cats, I believe that even a targ would likely avoid picking a fight with a cat.
