I’ve always thought you could summarize ST:TOS with the single line:
“Oh, for god’s sake, she’s dead, Jim!”
“The Man Trap,” the first episode aired on September 8, 1966? :dubious:
Why did he write Round Objects on a memo? I don’t get it 
The TV version doesn’t make any sense either. Is this a Britishism?
I thought “she’s dead, Jim” was said to King James I upon the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603. 
It’s a sanitized version of the immediately preceding (in the show) “Cobbler’s awls!”* = “Balls!” (as in “testicles”).
In British English, this is like saying “Bullshit!”
*Cockney rhyming slang. In CRS, you say only the word that doesn’t rhyme, in this case “Cobbler’s!” The second word is understood.
The payoff joke is, of course, that whoever read the memo next completely misinterpreted the comment, i.e., took “Round objects” to be a proper noun and a verb rather than an adjective and a common noun.
Quite clever writing, actually! 
there is a scene in ‘the mask’ movie. setting is in the bar and he grasps his badge and goes on a tirade. coughing, feigning death. sure ‘she’s dead, jim’ was in there too, hence my association with a cowboy movie.
but google using it to let you know the plugin has crashed. why would they do it?
i mean you could say something else…for non merkan users.
I just Googled the phrase and got 154,000 results, chock-full of references to Star Trek.
Even if you’ve been living in a vacuum since 1966 and have never heard of ST: TOS, the gag shouldn’t be that hard to figure out!
no, no i’m in china and google is blocked. sorry. was recalling where i heard it.
i wasn’t born in '66. don’t assume everyione is a startrekker. some people are well. YOUNGER.
we’re into vampire slayers and we didn’t have a crush on han solo from star wars.
As always, there is a relevant XKCD strip.
Apparently they block the shift key too.
Shush! It’s not polite to talk about that.
:rolleyes:
Dude, my parents hadn’t even met when the series ended, so don’t trot out that “some of us aren’t old farts” crap on me. That show was in fairly heavy syndication for nearly 30 years after it went off the air, it’s been satirized on everything from Futurama to SNL. Some things just reach a level of cultural saturation that it’s reasonable to absorb the broader strokes and catch-phrases without actually experiencing them firsthand.
I’ve only seen a handful of episodes of the original series, and I doubt I could tell you the plot of any of the ones I’ve actually seen. But even I can tell you that Tribbles are some kind of round furry thing that multiplies like crazy, that your evil twin from a parallel universe has a goatee, that Kirk slept with a green chick, that wearing a red shirt on an away mission marked you as cannon fodder, that Scotty “cannae go any faster, sir” because he was “a-gi’in’ all she’s got” and that dammit Jim, Bones was a doctor, not a ____.
my question has been answered and there is no need for your rant in general questions.
‘dude’.
Pssst! In TOS, they were called “landing parties.” 
pssst…i have never watched star trek.
And…?
Oh no, don’t you lump me in with that crap. I’m YOUNGER also, and I would like to make it clear that Han Solo is QUITE hot, and vampires are overdone and annoying, unless they’re getting staked by Buffy. Age has nothing to do with cultural illiteracy,
thankyouverymuch. Even if it is a sub-culture.
Clearly this is a result of giving everyone trophies.