# Enterprise "The Communicator" (Spoilers maybe) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533 "2002-11-13T05:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/222 "2003-03-14T03:43:10Z")
Now, picture me wandering through a smoke-filled casino today (which I was), dodging old folks with walkers and oxygen tanks, while holding a bucket of coins and a voucher and downing a Sauza-Rita at the same time. Now _that’s_ coordination. But I feel sick from all the smoke. I’m stripping down for a massive nicotine decon right 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:** [March 14, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/223 "2003-03-14T03:47:54Z")
I’ve got the gel (goo)!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/224 "2003-03-14T13:25:50Z")
That must not have been fun, **viva** , sorry you had to endure it. The smoke-filled wandering, I mean. I won’t address the whole decon thing… AAARGGGHH! GRRRRR!! AAARRRGGGHH!!! Oh, sorry. Work-related raving, there. My job deserves a spanking, to be administered using a paddle studded with rusty nails and shards of glass. And then, the said job should be bathed in lemon juice, so it can feel the pain to which it subjects me on a daily basis. That is all. ---
**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 14, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/225 "2003-03-14T13:32:16Z")
Anthropormorphizing again, are we? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/226 "2003-03-14T13:36:33Z")
Dammit, another thing to wax, USS Anthropormorphizing. ---
**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 14, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/227 "2003-03-14T13:48:33Z")
Anyone else worried about the state of our educational system, if **Viva** has to go gambling just to make ends meet? Do you know why parralel lines never meet? [Linus] Because no one ever introduced them. [/Linus] ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/228 "2003-03-14T14:37:59Z")
**Viva** was gambling? I thought she was panhandling, what with the bucket of coins and all. Still pretty sad. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/229 "2003-03-14T14:41:58Z")
Pit-ti-full. ---
**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 14, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/230 "2003-03-14T18:43:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Kn_ckers \* > \*\*AAARGGGHH! GRRRRR!! AAARRRGGGHH!!! Oh, sorry. Work-related raving, there. My job deserves a spanking, to be administered using a paddle studded with rusty nails and shards of glass. And then, the said job should be bathed in lemon juice, so it can feel the pain to which it subjects me on a daily basis. > \*\* My job just needs some dancing go-go girls to make it more interesting. ---
**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 14, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/231 "2003-03-14T23:23:07Z")
My job has too many go-go dancing girls ---
**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:** [March 14, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/232 "2003-03-14T23:31:58Z")
Mama Plant once complained that one of her romance books had “Too much oral sex in it”. I did not ask her to explain, but I feel no such compunction with your august self. Ahem. How many go-go dancing girls constitute too many? ---
**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 15, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/233 "2003-03-15T00:22:38Z")
Well, count all the appendages an average hoo-mahn might have, multply by 3.1416 or so… ---
**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 15, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/234 "2003-03-15T00:57:20Z")
there are never too many go go dancing girls!!! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/235 "2003-03-15T01:05:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Anyone else worried about the state of our educational system, if **Viva** has to go gambling just to make ends meet? > > SNIP \*\* * * * You should be worried. It’s only getting worse, especially in CA. I am part time and am only paid by the hour. Check your email in a bit. It was a tight-ass casino. My mom didn’t even win, and she ALWAYS wins everywhere else. We are not going back (hmph!). That’s why we’re going to the Pala next time. They have non smoking enclosures of gaming iniquity in which we can breathe…and win! ---
**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 15, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/236 "2003-03-15T01:16:49Z")
When asked how did feel about Oklahoma being 48th in teacher pay average, our Govenor said, “Thank God for Mississippi and Alabama!” Any of you guys get an e-mail from MethodLab? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/237 "2003-03-15T01:24:27Z")
Who be MethodLab? Thanks for the virtual rubdown, by the way. I’m gleaming clean and feeling well enough to run off to the English perfessers’ partay in a minute for chow and martinis. It will help to take my mind off of something that I may start a Pit thread about when I get home. We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/238 "2003-03-15T05:03:30Z")
Post some linkage if you do. I stay out of the Pit but I don’t want to miss your rant. Considering your profession, I expects lots of eruditity. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/239 "2003-03-15T07:20:35Z")
**eruditity** : one of those words that sounds naughty, like **titular**. I don’t know if I’m up for it tonight…maybe tomorrow. We’ll see. **Kn\*ckers** : thank you for your concern. I finally got all the smoke out of my system after a loooooong night’s sleep–had to go to bed at eight frikkin-thirty. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/240 "2003-06-27T06:38:09Z")
Bumping this one back into business, just for next week’s rerun. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533/241 "2003-06-27T06:50:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*😕 > > Can’t say I have but how did my name come up? Not that I’m complainin’… I think this is the first time I’ve ever been mentioned in a thread I haven’t posted in (Yay! I’m finally a full fledged Trek Doper!) but huh?\*\* It’s only been three months? I thought I’d been around these threads a bit longer than that. Feels like forever. I still remember feeling completely out of it trying to read these threads though. “Porthos? Panda? Huh? What’re these guys talking about? I wish they’d just talk about the friggin’ episode already.” Talk about an about face, eh? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-the-communicator-spoilers-maybe/136533.md?page=13)