I think the Cardassians would appreciate "Columbo." We know from the start who's guilty and what they're guilty of, and the mystery is then how they're going to be caught. Seems to fit Garak's description of Cardassian mysteries pretty well.
If the Klingons can adopt Shakespeare, what Earth culture would other species claim?
I thought Daft Punk were the first Been ambassadors. But they hit a temporal anomaly and ended up stuck in the late 20th century.
We didn’t tho…did we?
I mean, one of the dudes is literally named Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo - “guy man human”, c’mon!
“Manuel” is a shortening of Immanuel, which is Hebrew meaning “God is with us”
A likely story, section 31 operative.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Breens love a Thot though.
The Breen
Those notorious party animals: *One more time...gonna celebrate...oh yeah!"
:)
Romulans love trashy reality tv. The catty bitches, the backstabbing, the drama.
I bet the Cardassians would love Keeping up with the Kardashians... until they realised that the kardashians arent cardassians, just really trashy humans. Then theyd love it even more!!!
Omnipresent leather skint tyrants bent on galactic domination.
I was going to write exactly this!
I buy this one wholesale. Backstabbing is Romulan truth.
Ferengi would love Shark Tank
And The Price is Right
Rom would be watching that all day.
I feel like he'd be more of an Antiques Roadshow guy
Rom is an outlier. He'd prefer to watch a lot of How It's Made.
He would watch How It's Actually Made instead and believe it's 100% true
Rom would want to go on Bargain Hunt* to prove to Quark he can make a profit. Nog teams up with him to spend quality time with his dad. (Leeta sneaks into the auction and bids on their items to lessen the innevitable losses.)
*No idea if this is a thing outside the UK or not?
Pawn Stars.
Totall!
Best I can do is half a slip of latinum
The Price is Right would be a much different show when ported to Ferenginar. Episodes would start about the same as we're used to, but quickly devolve into haggling and arguing about the prices, eventually leading to the "Showcase Showdown" being an MMA style cage match.
"How dare they slander the fiduciary honor of Nabisco Brands by insinuating that 'Nilla Wafers are overpriced! They are priced appropriately to their market demand and competing products, you vermin!"
It would be very popular.
I’d watch an earth version of that…
Well, in that same timeframe, the Earth version would be completely unwatchable.
"Can you guess the price of thi-"
"Damn it, Bob, no! Of course I can't. None of us can. Our society hasn't used money in a goddamn century."
Eh, it’s no Landlord Cops.
And Pawn Stars
Storage Wars
That's what I came here to say lol.
And Succession.
Would the Ferengi make a saint of Trump?
<shudders>
I think they would prefer successful businessmen. Perhaps they'd revive the Fordian Church from Brave New World.
I can see Andorians getting offended by the Smurfs
I reckon Ferengi would enjoy duck tales, theyd really love scrooge mcduck, Also probably A Christmas Carol
I think Bajorans would likely enjoy our sitcoms, if anybody needs something to laugh about its those guys
Tamarians might like seinfeld, but its hard to say
The Ferengi being horrified that Scrooge is being PUNISHED BY SUPERNATURAL FORCES for his actions. He is the HERO of the piece.
“The Tragedy of Ebenezer Scrooge”
And to cross-fandom shitpost...
"How do I learn this financial affluence?"
*ominously* "Not from a small business..."
It's not a story Starfleet would tell you...
I'd love to see a ferengi talk about their favorite earth movies. Like the poor Lex Luther always being harassed by the evil Superman so that he can never turn a profit.
It'd be like that episode of HIMYM where Barney roots for the bad guy in every movie.
“Batman? Bah. Where are my comics of Bruce Wayne, Billionaire?”
I I think the Ferengi would massively prefer the Blackadder version of Christmas Carol where the ghost accidentally turns the kindly, philanthropic Ebenezer Blackadder into an absolute bastard.
Bunch of Tamarians sitting around: “The frilly shirt!” “The soup!” “The contest!”
George's lies, marble rye's, kramers eyes, susan dies
Theres honestly enough content in that series to alter their entire language
George, with shrinkage.
Kramer at the doorway
Elaine, her body convulsing…
George, with pretzels
Jerry, the fusilli figurine
Keith, asking Jerry to help him move
There’s an entire dialect of Tamarian that relies exclusively on the first ten seasons of The Simpsons.
The best part is, everyone here already speaks it.
Homer, when he receives a free donut.
Ralphie, his Wookie bent.
Friends has potential, too. “Ross and Rachel, on a break.”
That's basically r/seinfeld.
Would the Tamarian's love Pulp Fiction?
Butch and Wallace, in the basement.
Jules, his eyes open.
Jules and Vincent get the hose.
Jules and Pumpkin, with the wallet
Butch, after the fight
Butch, receiving the watch.
There are so many.
You had me at butch and Wallace in the basement
Mia, with Jules heroin
Vincent and Mia, at the dance
Marcellus sends the Wolf
Zeds chopper
Mr. Wolf, solving problems!
I wonder if Tamarians might like catchphrase-heavy/very meme-able sketch shows? I can totally picture a Tamarian shopkeeper refusing service by declaring, "This is a local shop for local people, there's nothing for you here!" with utter seriousness.
Tubbs, her points uncovered.
Chloe and Radcliffe at the scarecrow.
Lazarou, his pegs for sale.
Pauline at the jobcentre.
Royston, when the shop burned.
Just make sure we show the ferengi the original work - Muppets Christmas Carol
Kramer in the operating theatre, his junior mints box open.
I think Vulcans would claim Frozen just to piss off the Andorians.
All while telling them to "Let it go"
"It would only be logical to..let it go."
Imagine a whole crowd of Cardassians, all casual, all lounging on and around a sofa watching a huge viewscreen. Most are inebriated to some degree.
They're marathon watching the Fast and Furious movies.
Dom says 'family'.
The Cardassians go apeshit, whooping and hollering. "FAMILY, YEEEEEEEEEAH!"
Cardassians are all about family.
until Mr. Nobody shows up, the Cardassians would have no one to root for. Peasants, running vehicles?
It's the most important thing.
The Founders would absolutely HATE Stargate SG-1.
false gods. dead false gods
Or they would love it as satire. No wonder these gods die so easy. They make who they are way too obvious. At least the Ori have Vorta like Priors who are the face of the religion. What kind of god would "mingle" with so many solids?
I think maybe Trill might have a problem with it, too. "Why the hell didn't they go with the symbiotic option?! It's so much easier!"
Well the Tok'Ra did...
I am watching SG-1 and I realized the trill are literally the Tok'Ra just uh have less of a god complex. Also way more bodies so their society actually includes non joined.
The trill came after SG-1 right? Cuz they are totally inspired.
However the Jem Harad would absolutely love war movies. The one about the last imperial japanese holdout would be a tragic story of loyalty. They even had to fly out the original commander to order the soldier to surrender because he was so faithful to his duty.
At Unimatrix Zero, it’s not unusual to hear strains of ABBA’s Dancing Queen echoing through the alcoves.
Swedish origin of Borg confirmed 🇸🇪
“Cube 4-17483-338 is playing Under Attack again.” - “Please don’t let it be Species 8472, please don’t let it be Species 8472…” - “Now they’re signaling When I Kissed The Teacher.” - “Goshdanggit!”
Ugh, just kill me now in that case.
I'd love Cardassians Columbo...
Romulans might like MacGyver.
I could imagine Weyoun as Dominion Columbo. “Oh, just one more thing…”
Romulans love SG1, Vulcans are hardcore MacGyver fans. This is the real cause of their schism.
Weirdly, the Prophets are super into Babylon 5.
Thus proving once again that they are indeed higher beings.
They did think Sinclair’s arc was a little too simple and straightforward though.
But they would have approved of his non-corporeal nature.
No, they find timeloops to be really tedious
By the 32nd century they compromise on The Simpsons by way of time slot and O'Neill's love for the show.
Romulans would love 24.
"Jack doesn't lean into the torture enough"
"Then you should watch all SAW movies, Mr. Romulan."
It's a show where society is constantly under threat from at least five different existential terrorist threats at once and the only chance of salvation is a security agent constantly going rouge and remaining answerable to nobody to the extent of regularly murdering his own boss. I assume the Obsidian Order has it running on the canteen TVs.
Vulcans surprisingly love Hallmark movies because they are formulaic. They made a multi-dimensional graph to chart and predict with striking accuracy the variables for protagonist girl character traits, job, love interest traits, setting, etc.
The Binars favorite Bible book is Numbers.
You don't think they'd also like Peter 1 and Peter 2?
You mean Peter 1 and Peter 10?
Q would absolutely love Jeeves and Wooster, with every mortal being Bertie. Within weeks of receiving their first copy of Lord of the Rings, every Vulcan would speak Quenya fluently. Tellarites would have epic rap battles. Joined Trill would kill at trivia contests. Jem'Hadar would rule online gaming.
"Ketracel White is a sacrament only for those valiant warriors who break into the Leaderboard top 50"
Murder On The Orient Express is best enjoyed in the original Cardassian
The Metamorphosis really lost a lot of its patriotic charm when the humans translated it.
Orions like Red Shoe Diaries. And NCIS for some reason.
Red Shoe Diaries is a throwback. Pretty sure the Tal Shiar would sneak a peek or two at it (Denise Crosby was in an episode).
DiNozzo is the perfect Orion shield. All that valor, all that vainglory, all that stupidity.
Horta love The Rolling Stones, especially the compilation album Hot Rocks.
“Flintstones, we’re the Flintstones… Ah yes, back when stone and men lived in harmo… - wait, are they BEATING THOSE ROCKS?”
Can we introduce them to Mat Zenk?
Gorn would love Jurassic Park
It'd be like gornography for them.
The Voth would complain that it’s racist
New Gorn would love Alien
Those dudes from that early DS9 ep that were obsessed with games would love Taskmaster.
Or Takeshi’s Castle.
Or Squid Game
Orion's would either love or hate the Pirates of the Caribbean.
"You are the worst Orion pirate I know!"
"So you have heard of me!"
Not necessarily cultural, but like Worf, Pakleds enjoy Prune Juice too. For a very different reason.
It makes them go
Shark tank is basically ferengi porn.
The Trill would like Dr. Who
The Ocampa canonically love watching the weather Channel, apparently.
Hirogen are "Duck Dynasty" fans.
And redshirts/crewmen of any species would be fans of "Most Xtreme Elimination"
I don’t know, Kelpians don’t seem like they’d be fans of anything with “Xtreme” in the title.
Kelpians would be the teriyaki served to the audience.
Vulcans are big Neil deGrasse Tyson fans. They see him as a kindred spirit because he shares their contempt for humans.
Ooooooooooffffff but yeah so true
Do you actually listen to Niel, or are you just responding to the memes?
Don’t know why, but I think Linus would be way too much into soap operas…
K Pop but they keep it secret until an anomaly interferes
I think if you listen to the Klingons they say you have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
This indicates to me that Shakespeare was a Klingon and released his plays on Qu’nos. Obviously they had no time for Romeo and Juliet so he came to earth and gave it a go.
Anyway the point is. They didn’t adapt Shakespeare. Earth adapted it from the Klingons.
This is correct
Kes and Neelix got really into soap operas, so their respective species might go for them.
Most Ocampans aren’t really into them for the plotlines, though. They’re just fascinated by the fact some of the actors have been on the show for decades.
You haven't seen The Apprentice until you've seen it in the original Ferengi
Lower Decks should've had a Ferengi Apprentice TV show Boims watched.
The Pakleds would LOVE Fox News. It would make them feel so smart.
Plot Twist: Shakespeare WAS a Klingon (Klingons had warp drive well before Earth's 16th century AD)
I feel like the Cardassians would be big fans of Leni Riefenstahl films.
Bajorans would be into the '70s disco scene.
They'd probably love Rambo
Cardassians keep saying they came up with Star Wars, but then the humies took it over and made it about the disgusting rebels instead.
Cardassians would really be into the Saw movie franchise
Nope, Kramer fucked up in minute one. Adam had no legal way out of his situation, that key went down the drain. That's also your proof that Kramer is just a piece of shit serial killer instead of the rule master he casts himself as.
Cardassians would DESPISE Kramer. Because anything after that is shame covering, and Cardassians do not acknowledge failure.
Cardassians would DESPISE columbo.
Romulans will love goregrind
Gaila and the rest of the Orions may enjoy the book series, Magic Kingdom For Sale, Sold.
Niche?
Orions could claim Debbie Does Dallas, Taboo, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Tholians love to crochet
Some deep reaches:
Cardassians would love Battleship Potemkin
Ferengi would love Wallstreet
Orions would love The Italian Job
Vulcans would love Casablanca
Andorians would love Fight Club
And for bonus:
Denobleans would HATE Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Ferengi are obsessed with Shark Tank
The Klingon discovery of the Nordic Sagas is an unsung hero of normalization of relations between the Klingon Empire and Earth. There is an active ‘Cult of Odin’ fraternity among Klingon scholars, a reference to Odin’s sacrifices in search of knowledge. Sun Tzu is used as a primer in school for 12-14 year olds.
Q loves MST3K
According to this video Star Wars is a Cardassian repetitive epic and George Lucas is a Cardassian.
Betazeds might appreciate the giant Harold Robbins. The Organians might find the bible to be interesting fiction.
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I wonder if Star Wars is popular?
I think a Klingon made Anime would go hard af
Vulcans: HUGE bowling fans.
Pakleds would go nuts over Big Bang Theory.
Cardassians really enjoy Terry Giliam’s Brazil
The Orions love Pirates of the Caribbean and Pesto
Kelpians-baby shark do do do do.
The Cardassians can go Faulk themselves.
Star Trek and Columbo are my two most favorite TV shows of all time, but of course Star Trek is #1. Interesting way to connect them!
Andorians would probably get a kick out of a lot of old school war movies.
Some Ferengi would definitely buy the rights to the song Big Spender by Cy Coleman, and maybe the whole Sweet Charity musical.
Pakleds love Wagner for all the big helmets, and think that the Bugs Bunny version is the standard for opera. *
Pakleds simply adore Bill O’Reilly.
which ones would be into be into Stephen King
Reckon the Bajorans would really get into Radiohead and whispery quirky girl singers like Billie Eilish and Lorde. NIN and Rammstein would be super popular on Cardassia and Romulus.
Oooh and friggen Enya has Bajor written all over it. The Vorta would like all the Disney girls, they're all kinda clone like for a start too!
Ferengi claim to have invented Fish and Chips but not mushy peas. :-)
The Vulcans would love the history channel, up until the switch to all the crappy reality shows they made more recently, the catch is they wouldn’t know exactly when the bull start d flowing so they would see a documentary on the Loch Ness monster or whatever and go away thinking it was real and they just hadn’t heard of it yet. Plus ancient aliens is basically true in that universe
The Breen claim that we stole Daft Punk.