# mix up your sci-fi - again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380 "2015-06-24T18:31:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/81 "2015-07-07T13:53:04Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > ! > > Ripley: Hudson! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons, just the Weirding Way. Well why don’t you make HER the Kwisatz Haderach! Alia: Paul has drunk the water of life! Game over, man! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/82 "2015-07-07T14:00:56Z")
“You don’t have to run, Logan.” “Everybody runs.” “Now, I am Magneto the White” “The ring can only be destroyed in the fiery ritual of Carousel.” “Captain Needa! The ship no longer appears on our scopes!” “Impossible! No ship that small has an interociter!” ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/83 "2015-07-09T19:26:22Z")
My daughter, when she was about three or so, tried to make sense of what Daddy was looking up on the internet or watching on DVD by asking me about “Space, _Over 9000!_” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/84 "2015-07-09T19:48:34Z")
Hey! I used to love _Space Odyssey: 1999_ “To date, no THX9000 has ever malfunctioned” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/85 "2015-07-09T20:54:57Z")
In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, can kiss my shiny, metal ass. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/86 "2015-07-09T21:00:09Z")
It was a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/87 "2015-07-09T21:24:38Z")
I am known as “The Keeper,” and I come from a world… Wait a minute, aren’t you that guy that brought that robot to Earth back in the '50s? I don’t know what you’re talking about. Sure, it was named Mort, or Bort–“Clatter, Banana, Nixon”; something like that. Silence! I’ll destroy you all! “CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY!” Uh-oh, wrong robot. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/88 "2015-07-09T22:05:50Z")
Monsters from the Ix! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/89 "2015-07-10T00:10:21Z")
Ah-ha, there it is, Dr. Quest’s new Para-Power Gun. And now, my robot friend, pay attention. Approach it. Examine it. Learn it well so you can come back here with all its secrets safely stored in your memory cells. That does not compute. ---
**Author:** ![thestrangeness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@thestrangeness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thestrangeness)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/90 "2015-07-10T00:16:00Z")
We are the Borg. You will be exterminated! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/91 "2015-07-10T13:23:49Z")
Avengers assimilate! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/92 "2015-07-10T13:28:04Z")
One of my old sig lines: > [@](#): > > "Biddi-biddi-biddi > > Sarah Connor?" > > ``` > ---SkyNet unwisely goes with the lowest bidder > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/93 "2015-07-13T12:35:30Z")
“Ah, Kirk, my old friend. I wonder if you are familiar with the old Vorlon proverb, ‘The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.’” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/94 "2015-07-13T13:10:26Z")
Scotty: Captain, I canna change the three Laws of Robotics! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/95 "2015-07-13T17:18:26Z")
There’s no right, there’s no wrong, there is only Zuul. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/96 "2015-07-13T17:22:32Z")
Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart gave you the gift of the boomstick. The boomstick is good! The penis is evil! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/97 "2015-07-13T17:33:09Z")
“Phone home, Yoda will.” Or to beat a slightly stunned horse: “A killing word, my name is.” -Yod’ib ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/98 "2015-07-13T19:14:02Z")
[This guy gets it.](http://cdn.twitrcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Gandalf-Quote-l.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/99 "2015-07-13T19:22:33Z")
^ Thread winner! ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mix-up-your-sci-fi-again/723380/100 "2015-07-13T21:33:19Z")
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