# Enterprise Episode Sequels Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 2, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661 "2003-03-02T22:46:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/21 "2003-03-07T05:50:22Z")

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You dirty-minded freaks. For shame! Forsooth! Forehead!  
It’s just a simple abbreviation and you have to get all naughty about it.

No wonder we get along so well. 😉

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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:** [March 7, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/22 "2003-03-07T05:55:20Z")

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Yeah, my warp nacelle leaks plasma everytime you post.

😃

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/23 "2003-03-07T06:02:06Z")

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That’s disgusting. Me like.  
\*Speaking seriously of plasma for a minute, though…Both Reed and Mayweather have mentioned scrubbing plasma conduits as being some sort of awful disciplinary measure. How bad would it be, really? Isn’t there some Easy-Off Conduit Cleaner they could just spray on and wipe off? What exactly is this plasma stuff anyway? Is it worse than grease? Can’t you tell this is keeping me up at night? Why else would I be here? ???

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/24 "2003-03-07T06:04:00Z")

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Your nacelle leaks plasma? I hope you breached the warp core first!

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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:** [March 7, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/25 "2003-03-07T06:11:42Z")

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Isn’t plasma energized gas? Like what’s found in the Sun’s atmosphere?

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/26 "2003-03-07T06:13:14Z")

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Pretty much. It scrubs you instead of vice versa.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/27 "2003-03-07T06:17:10Z")

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Then it makes no sense that they’d be worried about having to do it…right?  
Now, scrubbing an entire deck with a toothbrush would be a different matter. No, wait—having to don an EV suit, then go outside and scrub the space barnacles off the ship’s hide: that would be something worth avoiding.

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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:** [March 7, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/28 "2003-03-07T06:19:23Z")

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:::_SHUDDER_:::

Space Barnacles. I saw them at the Ford center last night. With The Revolting Cocks and Cake.

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/29 "2003-03-07T06:20:15Z")

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Wouldn’t you be worried if Trip told you that you had to go scrub the plasma manifolds?

It’d be a one way trip. Awful disciplinary action indeed.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/30 "2003-03-07T06:20:40Z")

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Mmmmmm…Revolting–er, oops, I mean–mmmm, Cake.

:eek:

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/31 "2003-03-07T06:22:28Z")

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Yo two post too fast. I can’t get my witty responses in quick enough! ☹

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/32 "2003-03-07T06:22:45Z")

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You two post too fast. I can’t get my witty responses in quick enough! ☹

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/33 "2003-03-07T06:24:01Z")

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Oh, god… I’m in _another_ time 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:** [March 7, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/34 "2003-03-07T06:24:29Z")

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So you just double them up, huh?

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/35 "2003-03-07T06:26:36Z")

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Apparently.

I think Q’s found someone else to harass since Jean Luc’s busy or somethin’.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/36 "2003-03-07T06:27:21Z")

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Probably got an error message and wasn’t sure the message got through. It happens a lot to me during the day, which is why I can never yak witchoo till later.

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/37 "2003-03-07T06:28:54Z")

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Yeah, but I like my technobabble excuse better.

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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:** [March 7, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/38 "2003-03-07T06:31:08Z")

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Take it to Great Debates, you guys!

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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:** [March 7, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/39 "2003-03-07T06:32:53Z")

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Are the Revolting Cocks still together? I remember them from the mid to late 80s.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-episode-sequels-thread/158661/40 "2003-03-07T06:34:30Z")

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And I remember you from that wild night on Risa.

When I don’t know the answer, I give one anyway.

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