The gif started buffering for me at the 2 second mark and was stuck there for a bit buffering and I thought it was a meta joke. Alas, just a regular funny ten forward joke. :)
It's actually a dream sequence. Spoiloers ahead if you don't want them.
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The ship encounters an evolved tardigrade, which they use to warp around instantly. She sees that every time they warp it hurts the beast, and the pain she figured out how to inflict on it via the warp manifests here