Has it ever occurred to you how fucking weird Star Trek — and space travel in sci-fi is? You're in a big metal box (or disk, I know, I know, spare me, pedant) full of air and people and food and water flying through literally nothing. Look, the Vacuum of Space isn't quite a vacuum. It's got dust and shit floating in it. Some planets too, I suppose. But mostly it's empty. We have to bring all the stuff we need with us! Each starship is a tiny little microcosm of our home, our environment, our alma planata.

So how weird is it that there isn't a single blade of grass or blue sky or even simulated sunlight in this tin can zipping through space? You rely on it to keep you alive and get you where you need to go and we think about it like it's a gloried '98 Nissan Altima, not the little slice of ecosystem it actually is. Curved metal and 5000 K lights and miles and miles of hotel-grade carpet, but no chirping birds or warm breeze on your face.

Do you think the aliens Starfleet run into think that we evolved in an industrial park? That earth is nothing but cold steel caves connected by tubes and ladders? The design of Voyager goes beyond "utilitarian" into something so far removed from where we live that it's almost incomprehensible to our little ape brains. If Starfleet is humanity's representation amongst the stars, how did they mess up our home so badly?

Covered this episode: 

Star Trek: Voyager S04E03 — Day of Honor 

Adventure Time S05E31 — Too Old 

Adventure Time S05E32 — Earth & Water

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