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I baked these myself and thought that it would really brighten up the bridge if I, well, if I baked something and everyone ate it.

Thank you. That was so nice of you. I baked it. I baked these. You baked these. This is really good. This is, this tastes a lot like Corbo's famous lemon garlic cookies. Oh, yeah. Wait, you didn't, so you didn't put them in the recipe to the replicator? You actually baked them. No, I actually baked them. I actually, yeah, they are lemon garlic cookies. I did get the recipe from Corbo, but I made them actually, I made them. Oh, wow. Yeah. Boy, you can really tell that they're baked by hand. Yeah, by hand, by me. Specifically, I made them. And it means something, you know? It does, doesn't it? It does mean something. Yeah. I feel like there's no better way to communicate your love for your coworkers, your friends. Well, and each of these cookies are individual and separate.

And, you know, there's no other cookie exactly like this one because you did it by hand. I mean, they look very, very identical.

They look identical, but I promise they're all different because I did bake each and every one of them individually.

Yeah, Rita, I just scanned all of them.

And you know what? They all have the exact same circumference. But that just shows how much, like, effort. Yeah, like the amount of work that must have gone into measuring these out so that they each had the exact same circumference. And I do think you're right. I think it feels like it's bringing us closer together just by, you know, sharing these ginger, what, garlic?

Lemon, garlic. Garlic cookies. Can I have another one? Oh, yeah, please, do. Thank you.

Lauren, sometimes I forget that you're not familiar with earth flavors. Yeah, I always get ginger and lemon confused.

There is a really big movement in the late 21st century, where humans realized that

any flavor combination you can use for chicken, you can use for cookies. And it really

upped the cookie game on Earth. Can I have another one? Yeah. Thanks. Hey, Rita. Yeah. So I made these cookies. I was about to take them up to the bridge. I spent a lot of time on them. If you look, the diameter is exactly the same for each of them. But I got an emergency call. I've got to jump on a shuttlecraft.

Can you make sure everyone on the bridge crew gets these?

Yes, I will make sure they get them.

All right, thanks.

Bye. Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Sisypice.

Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

You're listening to the improvised Star Trek,

with Matt Young as Captain Julius Valentine Baxter.

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