# Enterprise Bounty spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077 "2003-05-13T22:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/341 "2003-05-27T19:38:47Z")
yelling at some of the neo-cons is fun, watching them furrow their brow in a futile attempt to understand what i just said. Kills time while waiting for the smarter Neo-cons to show up and make better points. What Enterprise reruns this week? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/342 "2003-05-27T20:23:36Z")
Minefield, I think. If you don’t want to be the Morale Officer, you can be the Navigator and resident _deus ex machina_, **Linus**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/343 "2003-05-27T20:34:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt \* > \*\*And what is really the deal with Starbucks? Do the people in Seattle really love that stuff? Or do they just laugh at the rest of the country while drinking the _good_ coffee themselves? \*\* We used to, but Starbucks just bought them. No shit. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/344 "2003-05-27T21:50:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Shouldn’t “but” be capitalized since it’s starting a new sentence? \*\* It wasn’t necessarily a new sentence. Or maybe it was. It’s MY sentence. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/345 "2003-05-27T21:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Moby Dick? > Coffee? > Battlestar Ponderosa? \*\* I can never tell anymore when people are being rhetorical here, so… The first one is right. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/346 "2003-05-27T22:00:55Z")
…my heart is like an open highway, like Frankie said i did it my way… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/347 "2003-05-27T23:02:41Z")
Call me Ishmael. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/348 "2003-05-27T23:14:19Z")
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This is a Trek related thread, you know. Carni was on the right track literary references in Star Trek ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/349 "2003-05-27T23:59:31Z")
So, Moby Dick was in TWOK. What about a Tale of Two Cities? Something Picardian, I’ll warrant. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/350 "2003-05-28T00:04:17Z")
Okay, but can you explain who Starbuck was and the connection to the coffee house? (No, not the Battlestar guy.) ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/351 "2003-05-28T00:08:41Z")
**Carni** , Moby Dick was both TWOK, and First Contact. As for a Tale of Two Cities, nope on Picardian. Think older, although you’re sort of already there. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*We used to, but Starbucks just bought them. > > No shit. \*\* That is one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard… If I may make a suggestion, [try these people out.](http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/Default.asp) > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Aesiron_ > \*\*If you don’t want to be the Morale Officer, you can be the Navigator and resident deus ex machina, Linus. \*\* OK, a comparison to Neelix is one thing, but to equate me with one of the most reviled characters in the history of the genre, well them’s fightin’ words! I mean, that’s just mean… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/352 "2003-05-28T00:10:36Z")
Starbuck was Ahab’s Number One, was he not? Starbuck Coffee is that joint at the airport that Mrs. Plant cannot pass without spending money. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/353 "2003-05-28T00:22:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Moby Dick? > Coffee? > Battlestar Ponderosa? \*\* Chief? McCloud! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/354 "2003-05-28T00:23:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt \* > **Carni** , Moby Dick was both TWOK, and First Contact. As for a Tale of Two Cities, nope on Picardian. Think older, although you’re sort of already there. Pssst, **Carni!** Remember the birthday present Spock gave Kirk in TWOK? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/355 "2003-05-28T00:26:38Z")
anyone want me to hint to how to get a link to a very disturbing trek site that is not work save and involves naked people? It is VERY DISTURBING. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/356 "2003-05-28T00:36:26Z")
No, Tars. Perhaps some other time. Sorry, Noclue. I underestimated you. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/357 "2003-05-28T00:38:09Z")
Wait, wasn’t there a Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica that was Face from A-Team? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/358 "2003-05-28T00:55:44Z")
“What is Star-buckin’?” ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/359 "2003-05-28T03:46:49Z")
Okay, okay… you can be a redshirt. Plenty of oppurtunities to move up in the ranks just whatever you do, don’t go on Away Missions! ---
**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:** [May 28, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077/360 "2003-05-28T03:53:02Z")
[Yes, Starbuck is from Moby Dick](http://www.starbuck.com/) Whales Think whales and you’ll see the connection to the other piece of classic literature. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-bounty-spoilers/175077.md?page=19)