10 Life Lessons Learned (and reinforced) from Star Trek Next Generation Up The Long Ladder - S2EP18

The Enterprise discovers two threatened colonies, vastly different from one another, that must learn to cooperate to survive.

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1. Everyone faints (even Klingons)

2. Be aware of your mortality and death is an experience best shared.

(Klingon Tea Ceremony)

3. To build a future you need resources.

4. Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd.

- Picard quote

5. Never look at gift foot bath in the mouth

Plus, when giving a foot bath, you start at the top and work your way all the way to the bottom.

6. A moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased with an equal moment of pain.

7. Whole civilizations can get lost in a bureaucracy.

8. Diversity is essential for a healthy gene pool.

9. Beware of authoritarians asking for your bodily fluids and DNA.

10. Never look a gift gene pool in the mouth.