# Mork of Ork on Happy Days

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-of-ork-on-happy-days/344470>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-of-ork-on-happy-days/344470 "2006-02-14T16:45:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-of-ork-on-happy-days/344470/41 "2006-02-17T00:02:09Z")

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So, Mork can time travel. I can’t imagine an alien, capable of interstellar travel and time travel, choosing to live in 1979. It reminds me of Scotty trying to speak into a 1986 computer mouse.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mork-of-ork-on-happy-days/344470/42 "2006-02-17T00:16:04Z")

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> [@Bearflag70](#):
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> So, Mork can time travel. I can’t imagine an alien, capable of interstellar travel and time travel, choosing to live in 1979.

I though Orson put him there, sort of like Time Lords exiling the Doctor #3 to Earth in 1969.

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