The outer space equivalent of the Monster of the Week, except it isn’t necessarily a creature — it can be the nebula that conveniently zaps your stardrive, or the planet with the radiation that makes you age too fast, or, well, any of a hundred similar things from Star Trek. It’s unexpected, unexplainable, and puts the cast in an artificially-heightened state of crisis for 25-45 minutes plus commercials — until they find or invent the necessary cure, solution, fix, and/or repellent spray.
Negative Space Wedgie, TV Tropes
Negative Space Wedgies are fun
Sure, the weekly space weirdness can be some new flavour of impossible. We like the impossible. We love characters who do three impossible things before breakfast.
Do you love a good negative space wedgie?
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Matt says:
Give me more negative space wedgies.
What’s your favourite negative space wedgie? Mine is the reverse time anomaly from Star Trek TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds”.