# Star Trek has lost the art of sticky notes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907 "2004-03-23T15:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907/61 "2004-03-26T03:00:28Z")

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Yes but in the episode they didn’t have time to gather anything to pawn.

I can see why some people would be annoyed by the ATM robbery but it doesn’t bother me at all. Suspension of belief.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907/62 "2004-03-26T03:20:41Z")

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Has it been explained why this Daniels guy from the future doesn’t get off his ass and travel back in time to do any of this himself? Or why he doesn’t send The Terminator or something?

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907/63 "2004-03-26T03:25:05Z")

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I’ve not been watching long enough to tell you. My rationalization is that he normally does but has to send them sometimes for some reason unknown to us.

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**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 26, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907/64 "2004-03-26T03:28:44Z")

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Eddys in the time stream

\>Eddie’s where?

In the time stream.

\>Oh, he is, is he?

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-has-lost-the-art-of-sticky-notes/235907/65 "2004-03-26T05:00:16Z")

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> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Yes but in the episode they didn’t have time to gather anything to pawn.
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> I can see why some people would be annoyed by the ATM robbery but it doesn’t bother me at all. Suspension of belief.

Yeah, but it’d take just as long to hack a **totally** unfamiliar computer system as it would to find something to pawn.

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