I never really watched TOS (except a few clips here and there) and I was positively surprised by this episode! Cool sci-fi story (love a doppelganger infiltration) and good pacing!
I adore the plant monster puppet that was so clearly just a hand in a glove with plant/flower stuff glued to it.
There is an actual RFC for "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service" that was released on April fools day 1999.
There are some fantastic diagrams in there: 
I can recommend the Janeway autobiography by Una McCormack! She also wrote the Spock autobiography.
Listening to this episode, I remembered how I just never could warm up to Malcom Reed. I couldn’t stand him across the whole 4 seasons.
It’s not Keating’s fault, the performance is fine. It’s just the character that bums me out.
w/r/t this episode‘s drunk Shimoda: I couldn’t believe that there actually is a mouse pointer in the LCARS displays but here it is:
(yes, I took a picture of the screen because Netflix blocks screenshots)
The healing powers of pan flute music are unmatched.
Was that Patton Oswalt as a Vulcan? Maybe he's Sybok! And Rhys Darby looks like he could be playing Trelane.
From the new(ish) Star Trek shows I really liked Lower Decks and mostly liked Strange New Worlds and the last season of Picard (you can watch that season on its own, especially if you’ve watched TNG).
I have mixed feelings about Enterprise, but would recommend it as well. It’s only 5 seasons, so …
TV has also changed a lot since the TNG-era, so if you like the vibe of those shows, I’d recommend checking out other sci-fi shows from that time.
All of that is highly subjective of course.
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I could have easily watched 5 more seasons of Lower Decke. By far my favorite new trek
I wonder if we find out what is actually going on with bearded, successful Boimler. Can’t be good, right?
Awesome!