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I've just finished watching the DS9 baseball episode, in which a (rather unpleasant) Vulcan challenges Sisko to a baseball game for no apparent reason, and the rest of the DS9 core cast for no apparent reason go along with it.

I know I'm fixating on the wrong thing - and that there's no way you can justify taking the episode seriously - but the thing that really stopped me being able to suspend my disbelief is that neither O'Brian nor Bashir made the 'rounders' crack, or argues out that any or all from a list of cricket, football, rugby, hurling, Gaelic Rules football, or, indeed, rounders was a superior game to baseball, and better for the character.

I also think it would have been infinitely more amusing if it had been cricket, although admittedly given war-time conditions they could hardly have played a full test.

I have to admit that I wouldn't mind trying Miles' whisky flavoured chewing gum, though.

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I've had a similar episode in TNG recently - one of those We Must All [activity X] things - I've been racking my brains all afternoon to try and remember what, with no success!

But for what it's worth I had exactly the same reactions you seem to be having now.

And there is organised sport in Enterprise - Archer is often seen watching water polo (the link with his extensive and lovingly bound porn collection speaks for itself, I think). And wasn't there some sort of bat-and-ball game with aliens in a desert?