# Captain Jack Sparrow takes over the Enterprise

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 16, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502 "2003-08-16T01:09:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502/21 "2003-08-16T14:21:45Z")

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> _Tsk, tsk… you’re mixing up your Treks. Redshirts appear on TOS and Ten Forward is a TNG concept._

_I’m_ not mixing my Treks…this is Captain Jack Sparrow we’re talking about here. In the time I’ve had my back turned, he could have The Defiant halfway to the Delta Quadrant. **I** am just your humble reporter here as we watch the going’s on.

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**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502/22 "2003-08-16T14:47:16Z")

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_Commandeers_ the Enterprise. It’s a nautical term.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502/23 "2003-08-16T17:25:45Z")

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'Allo, 'allo! I am Leftenant Commandeer Malcolm Reed, da-har da-har…

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502/24 "2003-08-16T17:33:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by racinchikki \*  
> \*\*In which Captain Jack Sparrow finds a large wooden crate and discovers that it can be used as a transdimensional teleportational time machine! \*\*

Oooh! A _TARDIS_!

Captain Jack Sparrow and The Master both try to _commandeer_ the Enterprise.

Quark hears rumors of a cache of cursed space pirate bounty on some planet in the Delta Quadrant.

Hilarious hijinks with mny senseless deaths (including a Tasha YARRRR!!! caught in a causalty loop) 🙂

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**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502/25 "2003-08-17T00:34:15Z")

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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*  
> Hilarious hijinks with mny senseless deaths (including a Tasha YARRRR!!! caught in a causalty loop) 🙂

Would that make it a casualty loop? 😃

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-jack-sparrow-takes-over-the-enterprise/195502/26 "2003-08-17T00:56:44Z")

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Could be, could be…

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