# Enterprise: Dead Stop 1/1/03 \[Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150 "2003-01-02T04:12:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/161 "2003-06-12T02:36:04Z")
YES, YOU DID! PLOW THROUGH THE LAST 100 OR SO POSTS YOU’VE LEFT IN CS. “WHAT FLAVOR KUDOS YOU LIKE?”–NCB I ain’t makin’ this stuff up! ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/162 "2003-06-12T02:37:37Z")
Doesn’t Rush Limbaugh say “Kudos”? …sounds like a Klingon bartender. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/163 "2003-06-12T02:39:11Z")
I don’t even know what Kudos means. Wow, my timeline must have split somewhere. **Viva** would be a good Klingon. _And then… they throw things at you._ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/164 "2003-06-12T02:41:43Z")
Kudos are little snack bars. Also, praise. I was searching your posts, but there are so durned many of them that I had to stop. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/165 "2003-06-12T02:45:01Z")
**Linus** : (whenever you get here, of course): have you been to the Star Trek Experience at the Lost Wages Hilton? Or to Quark’s Bar? You don’t live too terribly far from it. * * * Kudos. Chocolate and more. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/166 "2003-06-12T02:45:53Z")
You can always search for Kudos, view by post not thread, and see where I said it. 😃 I knew about the praise thingy. Will have to look into this snake thing you speak of. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/167 "2003-06-12T02:50:10Z")
Unfortunately, since Kudos means those two different things, I can’t narrow the search to look just for snack thingies. But I KNOW you said it. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/168 "2003-06-12T02:52:19Z")
[Kudos.](http://www.blaircandy.com/nutssnacks.html) Okay, I’ll stop now. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/169 "2003-06-12T03:06:18Z")
I’m such a stinker, aint I? 😃 ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/170 "2003-06-12T03:51:36Z")
“Kudos” are also the “awards” used by many big companies when they want to pretend to be supportive of employees without actually giving them anything of real value. It usually consists of an e-mailed certificate involving lots of bright colors. I personally would rather get the snack bar - at least I’d get a brief sugar rush out of that (they’re actaully not bad if you like granola). Viva, I’ve never been to the Star Trek Experience, although I’ve heard that it’s pretty good. Actually…I have a…confession… I’ve never been to Vegas at all. **\ I’m so ashamed.** ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/171 "2003-06-12T04:47:18Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by vivalostwages_ > **Aesiron: I thought we already had one of those multiple, amplified Denobulon marriages…? Too bad; I ain’t giving up my ball(s). I spent two hours last night with balls: between the thighs, knees, under the tailbone, under the legs, under the neck; a TheraBand around my ribcage; a tennis ball under both feet (not at the same time.)** We wha’? You mean this whole time, I could have been hitting on **Kn\*ckers** with impunity instead of… uh. Ahem. Nevermind the “instead”. :o Oh, yeah… by the way: **Aesiron** ’s breath smells like chloraseptic spray. I went all winter without so much as a sniffle and now that summer’s starting, I’ve got a sore throat. Stupid ironic viruses. I want a kudos. Granola ist gut. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/172 "2003-06-12T05:22:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt \* > \*\*“Kudos” are also the “awards” used by many big companies when they want to pretend to be supportive of employees without actually giving them anything of real value. It usually consists of an e-mailed certificate involving lots of bright colors. I personally would rather get the snack bar - at least I’d get a brief sugar rush out of that (they’re actaully not bad if you like granola). > > Viva, I’ve never been to the Star Trek Experience, although I’ve heard that it’s pretty good. > > Actually…I have a…confession… > > I’ve never been to Vegas at all. > > **\ > I’m so ashamed.** \*\* :eek: But…but…but…you just gotta stand in the long line and read all the Trek history on your way up the ramp to the Experience; get into a group and into the turbolift; get beamed up; get onto the bridge, which is way cool, very authentic–and funny as hell because the people working the controls are in full uniform and they look serious, like they really are ON THE BRIDGE and not just in a Vegas hotel. Worth the trip. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/173 "2003-06-12T05:31:55Z")
::chops some liver:: Anyone else wish they could be transported at some point in their life? That’d be sooo cool. Anyway, I’ve never been to that place. Or to a convention. I was given the chance to go to one about seven years ago but Ethan Phillips was the special guest. I’m not that disappointed that I didn’t go. I want to meet Chase Masterson. And Linda Park. And Roxanne Dawson. And Nicole De Boer. And Terry Farrel. And Rosalind Chao. And Nana Visitor. You know who I think would be cool to hang out with? Alexander Siddig and Colm Meaney. Sure, it’d be awesome to meet Brent Spiner, Avery Brooks, Patrick Stewart and so on but Bashir and O’Brien seem like they’d be cool to knock a few beers back with. I’d be too intimidated by the other guys. [/ **NCB**] ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/174 "2003-06-12T05:33:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Sola is Tars Tarkas’ babe, a’la Edgar Rice Burroughs “A Princess of Mars”, but let’s not tell Tars, I want him to look stupid. > \*\* What? i have a kid now? That waitress said she was on the pill! Now they’re gonna garnish my wages! They already take enough out to pay for repairing the Eiffel Tower, now this!! ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/175 "2003-06-12T05:34:22Z")
**Viva** , I would imagine that most of the people there are struggling actors for whom a full time gig is a wonderful thing. If I were them, I’d take it seriously too. **Aesiron** , just be aware that the Kudos bars aren’t just granoloa. [Link to their website.](http://www.kudosbar.com/kudos/index.html) **Cervaise’s** breath smells like popcorn, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/176 "2003-06-12T05:38:56Z")
I’m not no **NCB** … I know what a Kudos bar is and have had many in my days. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/177 "2003-06-12T05:54:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\* > I want a kudos. Granola ist gut. \*\* I was just responding to that - you didn’t say you’d had them, just that granola is gut. I quite agree. But if you’d never had them and were expecting unadulterated granola, you’d be in for a rude awakening. [manly sob] Just looking out for you, man! 'Cause I care. [/manly sob] ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/178 "2003-06-12T05:56:07Z")
Granola is gut? :dubious: From what kind of animal? ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/179 "2003-06-12T13:52:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > > \>snippity doo dah\< > > **Anyone else wish they could be transported at some point in their life? That’d be sooo cool.** > > \>snippity ay\< > > \>My, o my what a wonderful day\< > > \>Plenty of of sunshine headin’ my way\< > > \>Zip a dee doo dah\< > > \>Zip a dee ay\< > > \>Hey Mr Blue Bird on my shoulder\< > > \>It’s a fact\< > > \>It’s actual\< > > \>Everything is satisfactual\< > > \>Zip a dee doo dah\< > > \>Zip a dee ay\< > > \>Wonderful feelin’\< > > \>Wonderful day!\< **NO!** Who in their right mind mind would want to have all their molecules torn asunder, flung across the ether, and then reassembled by some damn fool machine? Not me. :dubious: Give me a shuttle craft any ol’ day. [thus ends my McCoy-ish rant] ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150/180 "2003-06-12T14:51:36Z")
Does anybody else wonder, assuming transporter technology is possible (a big if), whether or not what is reassembled would truly be _you_? Or would you be destroyed as a person, then recreated anew with all of the same characteristics and memories? _But not really **you**!_ \ I’m with **NCB**. Keep me in one piece, thank you very much. Now if we could just fold space/time so that you could step from one place to another without being atomized… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-dead-stop-1-1-03-spoilers/146150.md?page=10)