# Star Trek non sequitur thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975 "2011-09-29T04:17:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 12

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/221 "2011-10-04T16:04:04Z")

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We look for things. Things to make us go.

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**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/222 "2011-10-04T16:12:06Z")

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Kirk to Enterprise…

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/223 "2011-10-04T16:20:17Z")

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Microbrain, growl for me. Let me know you still care.

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/224 "2011-10-04T16:30:02Z")

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My operatives would avenge my death. And some of them are _Vulcans_.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/225 "2011-10-04T16:39:57Z")

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Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of 3?

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/226 "2011-10-04T17:35:50Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
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> Microbrain, growl for me. Let me know you still care.

[\<Ahem.\>](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14305811&postcount=39)

And, if you jump up and down like an idiot, that is considered funny?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/227 "2011-10-04T17:57:06Z")

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“Does everyone know about this wheat but _me_?”

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/228 "2011-10-04T19:14:55Z")

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you didn’t beam them into space did you?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/229 "2011-10-04T19:29:33Z")

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“Let’s get the hell out of here.”

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/230 "2011-10-04T19:59:02Z")

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Harcourt Fenton Mudd, where have you been? What have you been up to? Have you been drinking again, you miserable sot! You good-for-nothing thing…thing…thing…

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**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/231 "2011-10-04T20:11:01Z")

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You mind your place, mister, or you’ll be wearing concrete galoshes.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/232 "2011-10-04T21:37:17Z")

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The more they try to overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/233 "2011-10-04T21:53:59Z")

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“I know this ship like the back of me han…”

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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/234 "2011-10-04T23:44:49Z")

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You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/235 "2011-10-05T01:47:54Z")

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“We is condemning food. Things and supplies.”

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/236 "2011-10-05T01:54:26Z")

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> [@Knorf](#):
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> You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.

See posts 164 and 171.

“You will relieve him, Mr. Spock. That is a direct order!”

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/237 "2011-10-05T02:49:28Z")

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> [@KneadToKnow](#):
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> “Does everyone know about this wheat but _me_?”

No, it’s a Russian inwention.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/238 "2011-10-05T03:51:26Z")

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Where do you keep your nuclear wessels?

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/239 "2011-10-05T04:53:22Z")

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It was inwented by a little old lady in Leningrad.

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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/240 "2011-10-05T06:58:39Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> See post 164.
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> “Military secrets are the most fleeting.”

Bah!

Change is the essential process of all existence.

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