The things that used to make my day in prepandemic times were small and unplanned for — noticing a street sign that prohibited the capture of pigeons or overhearing one stranger scolding another for ordering salad at a barbecue restaurant.

[…] speaking a language invented before the human tongue learned the trick of articulative speech […]

And the Yard would most likely become the very center of Starfleet's xenotechnology studies. “An intriguing proposal,” said Spock. Bishop pointed to the space station nearest them.

Brown v. Board of Education