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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Technically he's a Spock stand in: hyper logical but not quite getting humanity.
This characteristic... In fact lots of characteristics get shared and mix and matched across DS9, TNG, and Voyager.
In Voyager Seven of Nine and The Doctor are the "not quite understanding humanity" characters. In DS9, it's Odo.
Ideally newer Trek would do this too, but it might also want to have:
A quirky or modded engineer: LaForge, O'Brien, Scotty, Be'lana.
A superior strength character: Spock, Data, Odo, Worf, Seven of Nine, Tuvok.
...and maybe a couple of psychic characters, Spock, Kes, Tuvok, Seven of Nine, Benjamin.
You'll probably also need some mentally brilliant characters, a Klingon, and someone who doesn't fit in due to a negative background and is jaded about it.
...a brilliant doctor helps too.
These characteristics are needed so you can write certain storyline types and stand alone episodes.
It's great that the two characters discuss this topic, I think it's in the multi-part TNG episode where Ambassador Spock is creating a dissident movement on Romulus.