And the worst part of it is my only hope for salvation is the Federation.

I love that O’Brien references how the TNG holodecks almost killed the crew at least once every season.

I also love how, having been off the Enterprise a short time, Worf has already mythologised himself and his crewmates into the Knights of the Round Table and probably genuinely remembers them as wearing dramatically flowing cloaks at all times.
And sometimes the Captain would ride a white stallion onto the bridge and make it rear heroically before he took his seat, right? Yes, that’s how it was.

Riker’s Piratical Stance and Butt-dooming the ship is already the stuff of legends.

Behind the scenes on The Way of the Warrior.