Words I Never Used Before Star Trek

[Bear_Nenno]

Conduit
Alcove
Subroutine
Futile
Assimilate
Promenade
Insurrection

These are just some of the words I never used or even heard before Star Trek. What words have television or movies taught you. Any?

[Bippy the Beardless]

Exterminate from Doctor Who. Few other real words that I can trace back to a particular program. But I did learn fresco, lackey, topiary, and gazebo from eight bit adventure games.

[Daniel]

'Importunate', from The John Laroquette Show. An entire episode centered around which characters did and did not know the meaning of that word.

[Larry Mudd]

"Tracheotomy." From M*A*S*H.

I can never hear the word without thinking of poor Father Mulcahey. At least I can now look at a ball-point pen without imagining breathing through it via a hole in my neck.

With a little hindsight, I wonder if M*A*S*H was strictly appropriate viewing for a seven-year-old.

[Helena]

I remember first hearing "bazooka" on The Incredible Hulk, and "calisthenics" on The Brady Bunch.

[Snooooopy]

Exterminate from Doctor Who. Few other real words that I can trace back to a particular program. But I did learn fresco, lackey, topiary, and gazebo from eight bit adventure games.

What about menhir? :)

[Teelo]

Trek.

[Paul in Qatar]

Deflector Array
Jefferies Tube

[Evil Captor]

Does anybody else routinely say or think, "Accelerating to light speed," as they work up to cruising speed on the non-informative superhighway?

Or does anybody say, "Wo-o-o-o-ormhole!" when they hit bumpy parement?

[dogbutler]

Does anybody else routinely say or think, "Accelerating to light speed," as they work up to cruising speed on the non-informative superhighway?



I always say "Warp speed, Mr. Sulu!" when getting on a freeway onramp.
:dubious:

[Call me Frank]

Well, I started to read the Star Trek:TNG novels when I was in second grade (started with Dark Mirror, IIRC), so I picked up a lot of my vocabulary from there. And of course there's the always useful "bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHeg" and "bortaS bIr jablu'DI'reH QaQqu' nay'". Admittedly, I just looked up the spelling, but they are phrases I have memorized...and used from time to time as appropriate :D

As well as things like conduit, replicator, quantum mechanics, etc...

[Nonsuch]

I can never hear the word "reconfigure" without hearing it in Geordi's or Data's voice.

Berke Breathed had a good one he used in his Star Trek parodies: "renoberate." I try to slip that one by every now and again.

[LordVor]

I can honestly say that I never used the term "Shmeg-head" before Red Dwarf.

-lv

[Smeghead]

You called?

[Superdude]

Tangential, to be sure, but 80's recording artist Rick Springfield introduced me to the words "acquiese," "concilliatory," "consummate," as well as the phrase "sexual tension."

[Ephemera]

I learned the word "virgin" from Night Court to very comic consequences.

[blowero]

"Tracheotomy." From M*A*S*H.

I can never hear the word without thinking of poor Father Mulcahey. At least I can now look at a ball-point pen without imagining breathing through it via a hole in my neck.

With a little hindsight, I wonder if M*A*S*H was strictly appropriate viewing for a seven-year-old.
Also "stat", "four-oh silk", "vascular clamp", "subdural hematoma", and strangely enough, I learned the word "genuflect" from M*A*S*H.

[BrotherCadfael]

Trek.Bingo! I remember wondering what the hell 'Trek' meant... I was, what, eleven? when it first aired.

[elf6c]

EPS Conduit (usually combined with "have exploded on decks 7, 12, and 18")

Singularity

Quantum (not just for torpedos anymore!)

Time Paradox (most of Voyager)

Continuity (what Enterprise destroyed).

:)

[Bippy the Beardless]

What about menhir? :)
Nope I learnt that from Asterix and Obelix :), heck I learnt a lot of words from Asterix and Obelix.

[Trunk]

"Supposably"

[elf6c]

Futile (as in expecting quality from a Braga produced series is _____)

[Bear_Nenno]

oooh, and "anomaly".

[rowrrbazzle]

I was reading a lot fairly early, such as comic books and Asimov's SF and science articles, so there wasn't too much to pick up from TV or movies.

clairvoyance (the supposed ESP viewing ability): possibly from "Science Fiction Theater" or "One Step Beyond".

nugatory, mordacious: two that I remember hearing from W.F. Buckley on "Firing Line"! :D

How about tapes of radio plays?

instantaneous, semantic, aborigines, prognosticator, disseminator, illegitimate, hashish, psychoanalyst, strychnine: from tapes of two episodes of "X Minus 1", the radio SF series. The episodes were "Early Model" and "Man's Best Friend". I wasn't clear on some of the words until I was older.

superheterodyne: from a tape of the radio program "Mr. Magoo and the Hi-Fi"! (again, I wasn't quite clear on the word until I was older.)

[rowrrbazzle]

And of course, growing up in the 50s, we had only 4 TV channels and no VCRs, so there was much less to watch.

[Paul in Qatar]

"Wormhole"