M-Class E-Mail: Episode 24

Companion episode to If Wishes Were Horses (DS9).
This is the first episode where the trek bois talk about the podcast being recorded in a satellite.
== Email Topics by Contributors ==
Contributor [Title/Positon] 	Topic/Question
Tyler Fun 	Given that resources are easily replicated/simulated in the holodeck, what hobby or currently difficult/expensive skill would you pursue?
Bam [Brigadier General, Son of Ron] 	Science Fiction vs. Fantasy. Sci-fi tends to have a more narrow focus. Fantasy tends to have a bigger focus. PIODI
Jakub [Ensign of Sciences USS Monahari] 	Talks about Jeff and Josh getting married but Jeff skips it. Phaser design
Phantom Thief Goofus 	PIODI. Does Ponfar have to be straight? Does that count as cheating?
Tom [Helmsman USS Pegasus] 	The Enterprise cleans itself. Does DS9? Also, Maquis talk. PIODI
Jive Turkey [Barback in training at Tenforward] 	Star Trek: Enterprise love. PIODI
T'Pon [[[USS T'Pon's Radio Program]]] 	M-Class Lore. Explanation of "exclamation mark"
T'Poppy [USS Dangercat] 	PIODI
Boston Sean [Petty Transport Officer T'Pon's Radio Program] 	New game: "Which folk said the quote?"
Spivzy 	Might cite M-Class Podcast in an academic paper. PIODI
Charles [Prisoner 43297 Bart, Stowaway, Orion Freighter Wanderer]	DS9 is like a high fantasy story. PIODI from a friend who doesn't watch Star Trek.
== Pitch It or Ditch It ==
Pitcher 	Series	Idea 	Pitch or Ditch?
Bam 	DS9 	O'Brien is stuck in a room with Bashir and Dr. Gaius Baltar. Will O'Brien kill himself before the circle jerk become literal? 	
Goofus 	TNG 	God friends Picard on Facebook. Picard blocks him. He knows it's freakin' Q.
B-Plot: Data celebrates his activation day and wants a surprise party. 	
Goofus 	TOS 	Q starts bothering Kirk. Kirk tells him to fuck off. Q says he doesn't even WANT to bother him or anything.
B-Plot: Spock does karaoke and bombs pretty hard. 	
Tom 	DS9 	It's the night before some Ferengi holiday. Quark does something mildly charitable like give a drink for free. He's visited that night by three ancient Negus' that tell him the true meaning of profiteering. He shown an awful future where he's running an orphanage. Quark wakes up and vows to get into chemical weapons dealing because that's where the big bucks are.	Pitch It
Jive Turkey 	ENT 	Daniels shows Archer a wormhole shaped like a crutch and says they need to close it or the mirror universe episodes of TNG will happen. After throwing up, Archer agrees and shoots quadralithium into it and closing it. But this actually causes the events of the episode "Mirror Mirror". 	Pitch It
Poppy 	DS9 	Jake and Keiko are talking about old Earth Halloween traditions. Dax overhears and gets Sisko to get the station to hold a Halloween party. Quark is holding a costume contest to cover up some smuggling dealings. Small language mistakes in the Universal Translator cause people to think the station is haunted. "Flim flam" is the Cardassian word for "gooch". 	Pitch It
Spivzy 	TNG 	A Klingon in Star Fleet uniform appeared in Ten Forward. He has lots of knowledge of the Enterprise and her adventures, but no one recognizes him. He knows everyone except Worf. Why? Something something portals. 	Pitch It
Charles' Friend	 	Something about when to say goodbye to old traditions because they no longer have relevance to modern life? Probably something word centric? 	
== M-Class Lore ==
Character 	Plot/Lore
Jeff and Josh	Jeff and Josh say they like to imagine they're on a shitty satellite orbiting an M-Class planet sending out a podcast to the other ships. Josh is the scientist and Jeff is the single security guard. They were shoved on there because they were terrible at their jobs.
T'Pon 	T'Pon used an Orion stenographer to write his emails. The stenographer has been fired. Vulcan keyboards don't have exclamation mark or shift keys.
Bart 	Bart escaped from Rura Penthe and is now a stowaway on the Orion Freighter Wanderer
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