Viral Twitter thread imagines today’s board games in Star Trek
Spock and McCoy contemplate a game of three-dimensional chess in Star Trek
An innocuous Twitter thread about board games in Star Trek has gone viral in Trek circles. Yesterday morning, Sean Kelly (@StorySlug on Twitter) posted the following: “It’s weird how many board games exist in Star Trek.” He then proceeded - in a 54-tweet thread - to poke fun at the leisure activities people seem to get up to on the show, first by lampooning scenarios from actual episodes, and later moving on to imagining Star Trek characters playing games contemporary to our time. (One presumes that their classic nature means they’ve simply been preserved into the 24th century.)
Some of the best:
Worf *rolls the dice* "Ah, now it is YOU who is 'Sorry.'"
— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) March 9, 2020
T'Pol: "Can we not simply replicate the missing piece?"
— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) March 9, 2020
Trip: "This is an ORIGINAL copy of 'Mousetrap,' those plastic mice are irreplaceable!"
Seven of Nine gets really into Candyland and for most of the episode it's just super-embarrassing until she has a monologue at the end that ties it into barely-remembered childhood trauma and suddenly it's your favorite episode.
— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) March 9, 2020
Q forces the crew to play in a real-life version of "Chutes & Ladders" which turns out to be way more dangerous than you'd expect because the British version has snakes
— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) March 9, 2020
At the very end of the thread, Kelly suggests that maybe Alex Kurtzman or the Star Trek writers’ room should give him a job. Personally, I’m a fan of more board games in Trek and in real life, so let’s hope that maybe, they “make it so”.
