A big dick in space

The UP-flagged pirate ship made a move when they saw his pod escaping; they hit him with an energy virus blast designed to incapacitate his pod. Jon thought it must have missed when he managed to escape, but the blast had done a lot of damage. The energy virus burrowed deep into his pod’s programming and caused it to malfunction. He could neither perform an emergency navigation override nor send out a distress call. The virus had injured the system so badly that, as he joked to a deeply interested Vivian, the pod’s onboard knowledge and pop culture database only went up to the twenty-second century.

The captain shuddered at the prospect of being cooped up in a small escape pod with only pre-23rd century history and entertainment to keep her company. It did give her an idea for a question to keep him talking and joking, though.

“So, I know we consider the twentieth century significant for the beginnings of space exploration, and the twenty-second for the first off-Earth colonies, but what was the twenty-first century like?”