ok so i was in the shower one time and my brain trailed off and i just started imagining what if the Enterprise got a distress signal that has been sent from the 21st century and when they look at it it's just stupid ancient meme shitpostery. like they think they've come across a really weird time-travelling anomaly and they put it on main viewer and they just get colossally rickrolled from 300 years in the past. it hasn't left my head for the past few days so now you must witness my vision
Data: Captain, it appears we are somehow receiving an unusual distress signal originating from the ancient year of 2024.
*Picard and Riker exchange looks*
Riker: 2024..? That's impossible.
Picard: Hm... Unusual indeed. Put it on main viewer.
Data: Aye sir.
and then the viewscreen activates and it's just this
Track 4 from the US Promo-only Cave EP that was sent to press and radio in the US and Canada in 1999/early 2000. Coma is listed on the track listing as a "previously unreleased B-side" at this point in time.
I swear i'm not weirdly fixated with numbers it's just that i need to remind myself how much time it took to some informations to become relevant to the plot and to keep in mind how much i have already read... and it's a thing that annoys me to no end because this story has no need to be this long! Like ace gets introduced in volume 18 (i know because he's on the cover) and he's there for a great total of 2 chapters in which he spend most of his screen time naming people that the reader doesn't know and will not know for at least 8 volumes more (which is equivalent to roughly 80 chapters). After this oda forgets about him for 27 volumes (around 300 chapters) and then he reappears for 2 more chapters and then he disappear again... and the plot related to him is literally the main plot of the manga!!! Can you see why i keep pointing out the volumes number and how many volumes it takes to go from the set up to the pay off