That was, Geordi thought in dismay, one very unexpected, if also very familiar flash of light and scaled-up finger snap combination, and combined with the ship to ship comms traffic they'd been getting from the bridge just before the audiovisual effects kicked in - oh, great.

"Sir--" Solis sounded as bemused as he suddenly felt. "Did that unidentified vessel just reference some kind of empire and a Cardassian drink in the same sentence, sir?"