Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell and referencing TNG s7e12 "The Pegasus"
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Was there a Breaking Bad / Star Trek Disco crossover episode? Who's Heisenberg?
Okay that got me. I'm referencing the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and, more specifically, the Observer Effect which says that the study of something will inherently change it. Granted, that applies to physics in that case but it's still used in reference to studying various other things as there is no way to study something without leaving a footprint of some kind. That footprint alone is enough to vary the study or, as Starfleet is afraid of with Pre-Warp civilizations, vary the thing you're studying.
Oh gotcha. Yeah wasn't even thinking about that. Good joke.
I should have realized, since there's an old joke in my family my parents would make that when you forgot to turn on the burner, you were cooking with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Effect. Something about it being possible for all the atoms of the food to spontaneously change energy states, just incredibly unlikely.
Oh that's a far better joke.... I'm stealing that one. That's fantastic.