# Enterprise Precious Cargo Spoiler

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 11, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910 "2002-12-11T01:58:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 9

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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 26, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/161 "2003-03-26T06:34:10Z")

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**NCB**? He tasks everybody.

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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 26, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/162 "2003-03-26T06:49:08Z")

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I was just quoting ST2 because you were! Oh, we’ve got it in for NCB, eh? Yeah, you’re right. 😃

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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 26, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/163 "2003-03-26T06:53:28Z")

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I really should have went with the “from the depths of hell, I stab at thee” line instead. “Revenge is a dish best served cold” was just… weak.

Anyway… back to our spastic buddy, have you seen the _Good Ideas for Trek Series That Don’t Suck_ thread recently? I think it might be my most favoritest thread ever. 😃

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**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:** [March 26, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/164 "2003-03-26T06:53:42Z")

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Yours is superior…

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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 26, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/165 "2003-03-26T06:59:02Z")

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My grammar is superior.

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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 26, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/166 "2003-03-26T07:05:56Z")

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We are the inerudite. We will be learned . Our lingual and grammatical distinctiveness will be eradicated.

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**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:** [March 26, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/167 "2003-03-26T07:08:58Z")

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Grammer allowed is not! Is planet forbidden!

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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 26, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/168 "2003-03-26T12:05:29Z")

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_Survivor: Deep Space Nine_

(yes, **Viva** , I know what thread i’m in.)

**Tars** , _STIII:TSFS_ quotes are not allowed. Carbon unit infestation must be steralized.

**Aesiron** ’s words are unimportant, and we don’t hear them.\*

My feets be dance’n

Mugatu is best served with a side of burgandy mushrooms. Top of the food chain, baby. Mmmm… mugatu… [drool]…

- guess what show that quote is from, Spenser for Hire… Hmmm… can you?

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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 26, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/169 "2003-03-26T23:48:39Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*  
> \*\*_Survivor: Deep Space Nine_
> 
> (yes, **Viva** , I know what thread i’m in.)
> 
> **Tars** , _STIII:TSFS_ quotes are not allowed. Carbon unit infestation must be steralized.
> 
> **Aesiron** ’s words are unimportant, and we don’t hear them.\*  
> SNIP
> 
> - guess what show that quote is from, Spenser for Hire… Hmmm… can you? \*\*

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000  
“What the Klingon has said is important, and we do not hear his words.” --one of those tall dudes–Maab?-- in “Friday’s Child,” from ST TOS.

[Pakled]You think we are not smart?[/Pakled]

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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 27, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/170 "2003-03-27T00:19:36Z")

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IT WAS BONES!!!

AND HE SAID UN I SAY UN UNIMPORTANT!

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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 27, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/171 "2003-03-27T01:55:08Z")

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UN! UN! UN! There!

Now, who said, “I do not understand that reference. Therefore, it too is of no importance.”

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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 27, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/172 "2003-03-27T02:03:15Z")

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I did, Monkey Cheeks. 😃

You’re so cute when you’re flinging things.

Next week’s ENT looks like a Stephen King show.

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**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:** [March 27, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/173 "2003-03-27T04:48:19Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*  
> [B **Tars** , _STIII:TSFS_ quotes are not allowed. Carbon unit infestation must be steralized.  
> \*\*

You Klingon bastards! You killed my array of ST3 Quotes! The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many!

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**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:** [March 27, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/174 "2003-03-27T04:51:52Z")

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Watching this one now for the first time, this lady is the worst actress ever! Worse than the older sister in Troll 2!!!

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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 27, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/175 "2003-03-27T04:54:03Z")

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And no nudity!

Huh!?!

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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 27, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/176 "2003-03-27T05:30:35Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*  
> \*\*I did, Monkey Cheeks. 😃
> 
> ## You’re so cute when you’re flinging things.
> 
> **It was Lord Garth of Izar, Gorn breath!**
> 
> Next week’s ENT looks like a Stephen King show. \*\*

* * *

**Coooooooool.**

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**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:** [March 27, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/177 "2003-03-27T05:56:38Z")

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Next week’s episode has it’s title all raised up special like Calimar or whatever did. I guess that improves ratings more than decent writing.

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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 27, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/178 "2003-03-27T06:34:49Z")

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They don’t have much on it yet, not even at the official dot com, so I’m just giving this much for now.  
[Next episode summary here.](http://www.treknation.com/episodes/season2/the_crossing.shtml)

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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 27, 2003, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/179 "2003-03-27T06:57:30Z")

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You totally missed **Tars** ’ misuse of _it’s_ as a possesive noun, **Viva**. You’re slipping!

Tsk, tsk.

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**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-precious-cargo-spoiler/141910/180 "2003-03-27T12:59:34Z")

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It’s Canamar. Calimar is “the bright ones” in Elvish.

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