# Enterprise: "Stigma" (Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947 "2003-02-05T14:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/121 "2003-02-11T18:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Mr. Spock doesn’t laugh unless he has a snootfull of spores. \*\* I know. Or is being controlled by the Platonians (or whatever they were called from Plato’s Stepchildren). As an aside, _there’s_ an episode that the producers must have decided never happened. Anyway, how else can you explain it? The completely logical Vulcan, based on the evidence in “Enterprise”, simply doesn’t exist. Spock was simply yanking everyone’s chain and the rest of the Vulcans of his time were playing along (as they have a very highly evolved sense of humor). Hence, when they finally decide to reveal this, the ass removing laugh. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/122 "2003-02-11T19:10:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Tendrils? > Is that a crack about plants? \*\* He’s talkin’ about that episode with the flying pancakes where Spock gets blinded. ::cues up Blinded by the Light on the Jukebox:: What kind of pancakes can’t go out in the sun, vampire pancakes? That’s another violation of Ape Law, right there! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/123 "2003-02-11T19:21:40Z")
The Vulcans will change in the next hundred years as humans will. Of course, the “jerk” Vulcans will probably still be alive in a hundred years, indeed, running things… Maybe Porthos will wake up on _Serenity_ and it’s all been a dream. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/124 "2003-02-11T19:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > \*\* vampire pancakes? That’s another violation of Ape Law, right there! \*\* I thought those hairy guys at IHOP were truck drivers… ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/125 "2003-02-11T20:27:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*… > Maybe Porthos will wake up on _Serenity_ and it’s all been a dream. \*\* No, not Porthos. Hoshi. Stepping out of the shower. That’s the only proper way to show that it’s all been a dream, right? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/126 "2003-02-11T21:22:17Z")
Can we compromise on Hoshi _and_ Porthos stepping out of the shower? Tars! Buck up! Get a grip, man! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/127 "2003-02-11T22:35:15Z")
Mmmmmm…Hoshi stepping out of the shower… i guess i won’t be getting any more work done today, too busy fantasizing… ::Porthos has broken Dog Law and must now be sacrificed to the nuke:: ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/128 "2003-02-11T23:11:17Z")
One day, Archer was served a special breakfast sausage and vampire pancake plate carefully prepared by Chef. But the sausages tasted funny. He suddenly realized that Porthos was nowhere to be found and tried hard to wake up… but it WASN’T A DREAM!!! _Serenity Now!_ Gad, I am so disoriented. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/129 "2003-02-11T23:13:26Z")
It wasn’t “a nuke” It was a hydrogen bomb with a cobalt casing. Once detonated, it would set up a chain reaction ending witht he Earth’s atmosphere being blown off the planet. At least, that’s what the monkey told me. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/130 "2003-02-11T23:16:28Z")
**Viva** , my name is God, not Gad. Get it right. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/131 "2003-02-11T23:19:42Z")
I’m so disoriented, **Gad.** Unfamiliar fluid keeps falling from the sky and I don’t know what to make of it. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/132 "2003-02-11T23:23:38Z")
Um, rain? People outside of Calipornea see it on a regular basis. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/133 "2003-02-11T23:27:34Z")
_pornea_ is a Greek word loosely translated as “fornication” by some Bible thumpers. _Californication_ was so popular, I shouldn’t have to mention the Red Hot Chili Peppers. So, _ **Calipornea** _ was a masterpiece of punnery by the Great and Mighty Me. You may bow down now. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/134 "2003-02-11T23:40:22Z")
i don’t get it… ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/135 "2003-02-11T23:42:50Z")
eh, it was weak… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/136 "2003-02-11T23:50:35Z")
I got it. I give you a little head-bob that will serve as a bow. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/137 "2003-02-11T23:54:48Z")
So…how about dem Andorians? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/138 "2003-02-11T23:58:47Z")
Ummmm…they’re blue? You got spoilers for us already?? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/139 "2003-02-11T23:59:07Z")
Actually, for **Wearia** and some others, that should be tonight, no? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947/140 "2003-02-12T00:01:06Z")
And for others among us, we’ll be late to the party, since we tape ENT and TZ and don’t get home to watch either till 10pm. I note **NCB’s** sig with a unique appreciation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-stigma-spoilers/152947.md?page=8)