Thread by @AlexandraErin

Dream show to write for, for each decade. I was not alive in the 70s but that's where the two nested below started so I did the same

1970s: Land of the Lost
1980s: Dungeons & Dragons
1990s: Highlander: The Series
2000s: Justice League
2010s: The Tick
2020s: Star Trek Lower Decks

https://twitter.com/baddestmamajama/status/1421268841779273734

If I could do just one episode of Lower Decks, it would be about washing hands and other hygiene issues, with a soupçon of the implications of superscience on medical technology.

The two things that convinced me that the Lower Decks people are deeply in touch with the Star Trek lore were a throwaway reference to handwashing and Boimler angsting over the idea of washing out and being shipped off to a research asteroid.

Handwashing episode overview: Boimler discovers a subculture within Star Fleet of people who wash their hands because even though they know there's biofilters everywhere "it just feels gross" and also weird space germs constantly get through the biofilters anyway.

Boimler is conflicted because on the one hand relying on the futuristic science wizardry is just how it's done in the 24th century and he hates to rock a boat, but the idea of spending thirty seconds to be extra clean deeply appeals to his nerdy and correct soul.

He gets discovered washing his hands by Mariner and breaks down pleading for her not to say anything and talking himself around to proud defiance and demands to let the chips fall where they may, mystifying her because she's always washed her hands without making a big deal of it

Episode ends with Mariner mentioning it obliquely to Freeman, wondering if she was the weird one for washing her hands, and they start talking about other people they know definitely do it.

"Wait, did white people just stop washing their hands?"

"How far back did this happen?"

Also, the secret society of handwashers tells their story to Boimler after he threatens to turn them in because he immediately jumps to the conclusion that they're time travelers from the past when he sees them washing their hands.