# 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\
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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 15, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/401 "2011-10-15T19:45:26Z")

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“You! What planet is this?”

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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 15, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/402 "2011-10-15T21:09:00Z")

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“That’s quite all right, my dear, because I’ve convinced myself that you’re just a hallucination.”

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/403 "2011-10-15T22:23:51Z")

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[very dry]I see you managed to get your shirt off.[/dry]

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**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/404 "2011-10-15T22:25:17Z")

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Well, I know what a movie is.

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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 16, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/405 "2011-10-16T00:46:49Z")

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Gentlemen, there is one thing which requires the immediate attention of all of us. Specifically: our future.

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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 16, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/406 "2011-10-16T02:44:41Z")

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“I’m allergic to Retinax V.”

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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 16, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/407 "2011-10-16T07:45:08Z")

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“Something that can’t possibly exist, but it does.”

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/408 "2011-10-16T09:16:27Z")

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Perhaps something occurred during transport, Commander.

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**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/409 "2011-10-16T10:02:13Z")

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Felis catus, is your taxinomic nomenclature, an endothermic quadraped, carnivorous by nature?

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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 16, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/410 "2011-10-16T11:54:30Z")

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“Don’t you think I know that? There was, but _not anymore!_”

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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 16, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/411 "2011-10-16T17:35:43Z")

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“Intuition, however illogical, Mr. Spock, is recognized as a command prerogative.”

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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 16, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/412 "2011-10-16T17:48:02Z")

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“What is nessesary is never unwise.”

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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 16, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/413 "2011-10-16T21:33:00Z")

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“You filthy traitor! I’ll kill you! I’ll… kill you!”

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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 17, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/414 "2011-10-17T00:01:50Z")

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“Now when you jettisoned the fuel and ignited it, you knew that there was virtually no chance of it being seen.”

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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 17, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/415 "2011-10-17T01:53:04Z")

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“Commander, your attire is not only more appropriate, it should actually stimulate our conversation.”

(One of my favorite lines of Spock’s).

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/416 "2011-10-17T02:28:02Z")

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At 0800 hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They’ve already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys; this may even be the turning point of the entire war!

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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 17, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/417 "2011-10-17T03:37:05Z")

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You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him, because you’ll never know the things that love can drive a man to… the ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, and the glorious victories. All of these things you’ll never know, simply because the word “love” isn’t written into your book.

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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 17, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/418 "2011-10-17T13:59:17Z")

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“Picard and Dathon… at El-Adrel.”

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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 17, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/419 "2011-10-17T14:11:22Z")

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“Romeo and Juliet on the balcony.”

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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 17, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/420 "2011-10-17T14:18:09Z")

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Ohhh shit.

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