I mean, banjos can be incredibly soulful and beautiful.

Béla Fleck or Abigail Washburn come to mind.

Hurdy-gurdy.

🎶 Oh, Deanna! Don’t you cry for me!

I came from Alpha Quadrant with a banjo on my knee. 🎶

Spock in the rec room playing the drums while Uhura sings.

Wonder if it’d hit the same way if the instrument was a saxophone and the song he played during the fade out was Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street

Rocketgirl has never played Outer Wilds, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_wIb_n4ZU (DO NOT look at the comments, go play the game instead)

Something like this, maybe

…Or if Commander Daren unrolled a digital xylophone.

Excellent typo

“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaw now, get along little doggie!”

(Furious banjo solo begins)

(Tear wells up in Picard’s eye)