I haven’t played Timberborn but I almost did pick it up on the spring sale, decided to get dotAGE instead to see what all the fuss was about and damn I love it. It’s a lot more of a worker placement game and is a roguelike so if that doesn’t interest you it might not be for you but damn it’s good so far.
I get the first part of the joke (klingons were on the Enterprise during the Tribble episode) but don’t get the bit with O’Brian