An innocuous Twitter thread about board games in Star Trek has gone viral in Trek circles. Yesterday morning, Sean Kelly (@StorySlug on Twitter) posted the following: “It’s weird how many board games exist in Star Trek.” He then proceeded - in a 54-tweet thread - to poke fun at the leisure activities people seem to get up to on the show, first by lampooning scenarios from actual episodes, and later moving on to imagining Star Trek characters playing games contemporary to our time. (One presumes that their classic nature means they’ve simply been preserved into the 24th century.)

Some of the best:

At the very end of the thread, Kelly suggests that maybe Alex Kurtzman or the Star Trek writers’ room should give him a job. Personally, I’m a fan of more board games in Trek and in real life, so let’s hope that maybe, they “make it so”.