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A punk on a bus shows Kirk the finger
Mariner giving a double middle finger
The finger, also known as flipping the bird, was an offensive hand gesture from Earth Human culture, particularly known to the punk subculture. It involved holding up one's middle finger and displaying it to another person. The double finger involved the same concept, only both hands were used in this case, holding up both middle fingers to display to another person.
In 1986, when a time traveling Admiral Kirk and Captain Spock were on a bus crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, a punk on the bus gave Kirk the finger after he asked him to turn down the volume on a boombox that he had, blasting a punk rock song from its speakers. Immediately thereafter, said punk was made unconscious by Spock's Vulcan nerve pinch. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
In 2381, after crashing a shuttle craft in a cave on the world of Glish, Beckett Mariner was surprised to find that her combadge actually worked. She then proudly gives the cave a double finger by raising both middle fingers into the air and saying "!@#$ you, cave!" Despite that her combadge functioned, they were still too far underground for their signal to get through. (LD: "Caves")