Wil Wheaton, who was once the bane of my childhood Wesley Crusher (special thanks to my parents for giving me the same first name!), is recapping Star Trek: The Next Generation for TVSquad. In addition to just being generally awesome, Wheaton also touches on one of my pet peeves with various Star Trek episodes:

Data says Ferengi are like traders, and explains this with the most obvious contemporary reference: Yankee traders from 18th century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 400 year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you’re stuck in traffic on the freeway, and you say, “Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!”

Although I suppose that’s not quite as bad as, say, the cast of Star Trek: Voyager returning to mid-90s Los Angeles. Or the entire run of Galactica 1980.