# 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:** 3

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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:** [September 29, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/41 "2011-09-29T16:18:06Z")

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_giant spear scuttles in at ground level_

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/42 "2011-09-29T16:25:44Z")

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Live Long and Proctor.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/43 "2011-09-29T16:27:42Z")

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I’m lying.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/44 "2011-09-29T16:37:11Z")

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Compensate.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/45 "2011-09-29T16:49:33Z")

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They’re aigs, aren’t they?

Yes, Captain, EGGS.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/46 "2011-09-29T17:07:16Z")

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You’re in good hands with Star Fleet.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/47 "2011-09-29T17:08:32Z")

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Sir! I must protest! I am NOT a merry man!

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/48 "2011-09-29T17:11:30Z")

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" That green-blooded son of a bitch!"

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/49 "2011-09-29T17:29:33Z")

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“It’s vile!”

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/50 "2011-09-29T17:40:07Z")

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If I were human I believe my response would be “go to hell.”… If I were human.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/51 "2011-09-29T17:40:41Z")

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But Miri is wid dem!

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/52 "2011-09-29T18:27:43Z")

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“I think I’m falling in love with Edith Keeler.”

“Scotty, get us out of here!”

\<BTW, the Uhura line is from **The Naked Time** and addressed to Sulu. As about the only undrunk person on the ship, she was feeling rather harried.

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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/53 "2011-09-29T18:44:39Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> No, it was Mirror Mirror.

Memory Alpha has the episode “The Naked Time” (the disease that acts like alcohol, and shirtless Sulu running about with a fencing sword) with those words in it. Sulu grabs Uhura on the bridge, pledging to protect her.

> **[The Naked Time (episode)](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Naked_Time_(episode))**
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> The Enterprise crew catch a virus that removes their inhibitions. The USS Enterprise orbits the dying planet Psi 2000, a world that was much like Earth in its distant past, with orders to evacuate the personnel of a Federation outpost that has gone...

Edit: Curses! I didn’t make the buzzer!

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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/54 "2011-09-29T18:52:55Z")

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Take d’Artagnan here to sickbay!

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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/55 "2011-09-29T18:52:58Z")

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I think you’re both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month …sir.

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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:** [September 29, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/56 "2011-09-29T18:58:28Z")

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“Miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starSHIPS…”

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**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/57 "2011-09-29T19:30:45Z")

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[Shut up, Wesley!](http://www.shutupwesley.com/)

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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/58 "2011-09-29T19:31:41Z")

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I fail to comprehend your indignation, sir. I have simply made the logical deduction that you are a liar.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/59 "2011-09-29T19:37:31Z")

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> [@mlees](#):
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> Memory Alpha has the episode “The Naked Time” (the disease that acts like alcohol, and shirtless Sulu running about with a fencing sword) with those words in it. Sulu grabs Uhura on the bridge, pledging to protect her.

I guess maybe it was. I was thinking that it was Evil Alternate Universe Sulu that was hitting on her. Or was it Chekov?

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/60 "2011-09-29T19:40:48Z")

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“He’s dead, Jim.”

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