Bonus buffering:

Inspirational credit to Lonewolf@leminal.space with further encouragement from davidgro@lemmy.world and cm0002@lemmy.world

• an old person with zero patience or energy for this shit [TNG s1e1 'Encounter at Farpoint"]

• YEARNING (unlimited capacity) [SNW s2e9 “Subspace Rhapsody”]

• a teenage goth with a lot of feelings [TNG s4e4 “Suddenly Human”]

• an ethereal being that lives outside of the realms of space and time [TNG s3e25 “Transfigurations”]

• a group of vengeful children [TOS “And the Children Shall Lead”]

• a gremlin with an abnormal relationship to dopamine [DS9 s4e4 “Hippocratic Oath”]

-bonus from DS9 s4e1 “The Way of the Warrior”