Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
The lunch arrangements will vary greatly by age/grade level. A high school is more likely to have the canteen style while an elementary school is more likely to have the cafeteria style. In either case, bringing a lunch from home is also reasonably common.
And TNG did break its own rules with Moriarty.
My headcanon is that Dr. Zimmerman and Lt. Barclay used the Moriarty program to discover how to make sentient holograms, and that’s why sentient holograms started showing up everywhere.
No matter how well you understand the passage of time in the abstract it’s a shock the first time you meet a full grown adult, with their own keys and everything, but you can remember what you were doing in the year they were born.
Ha. An Android phone.
Or just watch DS9.
Symbiosis: The crew must mediate between a planet of addicts and another planet of dealers.
Loud as a Whisper: The crew are ferrying a famous mediator to a warzone, but after his aides are killed the crew must step in.
The Vengeance Factor: The crew must mediate between the queen of a planet and a group of rebels who left the planet 100 years ago
The Price: The crew host negotiations for control of a wormhole
The Outrageous Okona: The crew rescue a charming rogue, but two angry fathers show up looking for him.
Too Short a Season: The crew deals with the ramifications of a badly botched diplomatic negotiation that was handled decades earlier by the guest-starring badmiral.
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