T-Rex: Some students will spend their entire lives studying a subject - science, philosophy - so that they might fully understand it, and then, if they're VERY lucky, even push the frontiers of knowledge out just that little bit further.
T-Rex: Respectable!
T-Rex: Admirable, even!
T-Rex: And while I have not dedicated my life to one of the CANONICAL subjects (science, philosophy, there's probably others), I DO know an awful lot about Star Trek.
Dromiceiomimus: T-Rex, you're not about to compare watching a bunch of TV shows to earning a DOCTORATE, are you?
T-Rex: Not yet! But in a few years...?
Utahraptor: What happens in a few years?
T-Rex: They keep making more Star Trek!
T-Rex: And at a certain point, it'll reach the level where it DOES require a lifetime of study to fully understand it. If you want to write a Star Trek then, it'll take most of your life to consume all existing Star Treks, leaving but a few days at the end of it to write a single episode. Hope it's good!
Off panel: Or you could just read summaries and say "yeah I get it, Data's a robot guy (no contractions) and the Doctor from Voyager is another kind of robot guy (contractions)."
T-Rex: But even that kind of critical synthesis grows over time!
T-Rex: Also, HOW DARE YOU
