TNG s1e4 "Code of Honor" and VOY s1e1 "Caretaker"

From Memory Alpha:

At a Star Trek panel at DragonCon 2010, Star Trek: Voyager actor Garrett Wang said this episode "stinks", to which LeVar Burton agreed, adding, "Without question." [10] Furthermore, Wang attributed his viewing of the episode as the reason why he ended up landing the role of Harry Kim, stating that, had he watched another episode of TNG, he would have been "too nervous" during his audition, as he would have ended up being a big fan of the show: "So three times I tried watching [the series] and I realized God was telling me 'Do not watch Star Trek: The Next Generation'."

DS9 s5e3 "Looking for par'Mach in all the Wrong Places"

VOY s2e19 "Lifesigns"

For quite a while I thought "root beer" to be a fictitious beverage, like Romulan Ale or Bloodwine.

Until I stumbled upon some comments by Americans mentioning it to be a real thing!

Only problem was that it is basically unknown and very hard to find here in Germany.
After unsuccessfully trying two special US stores as well as a couple of Asia markets (after someone mentioned that it is also a thing in some Asian countries) I basically gave up.

So imagine my excitement when accidentally coming upon this can in my local Edeka market (a type of German higher end grocery store)!

Now I and my kids are ready to try it, but this should naturally be with the right background.

So: Which Star Trek episode that references it should we watch while tasting it?
We are currently watching TNG, so this would be preferred (if it even appears in there?).
I would even be ok with a Wesley centered episode.. ;-)

Update:

First, thanks to you all for the suggestions! In the end we went with DS9's "Little green men", as other episodes would have required too much contextual knowledge (and are also much darker).

Individually perceived tastes of the Root beer varied somewhere between toothpaste and decomposed rubber.

Final verdict has been mixed:
My daughter completely hates it, my wife is not especially fond of it, I kinda like it and my son now has a new favorite soft drink :-)

The sketch from MST3K 706 Laserblast

VOY s5e15 "Dark Frontier"

LD s1e1 "Second Contact," TNG s3e24 "Ménage à Troi," with gifs from ST: Nemesis

Inspired by a post I saw in /c/firefox

Based on a comment thread inspired by @hakunawazo@lemmy.world

Any early 90's SNL fans out there?

TOS s2e26 "Assignment Earth" and VOY promo material.

No meme, just thought it was neat.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64434174