# Star Trek non sequitur thread **URL:** \ **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:** 5
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/81 "2011-09-30T01:39:19Z")
1,771,561. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/82 "2011-09-30T01:43:32Z")
To carnivorousplant: Your remark is PRECISELY why that line from Spock never fails to crack me up. (Don’t remember the episode title, but it is from Classic Trek, and Spock and Kirk are on the planet with the “Yangs” and the “Coms.” They are jailed in separate cells, and Kirk is loosening the bars on an exterior window. He is cut off in mid-sentence when the leader of the “Yangs” karate-chops him on the back of the neck. Spock calls to him, then utters the fateful line: “Captain, are you unable to respond?” badbadbadbadbad… ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/83 "2011-09-30T02:12:20Z")
I didn’t mean to say that the Enterprise should be _hauling_ garbage, I meant to say that it should be hauled away _as_ garbage! _huge brawl breaks out_ ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/84 "2011-09-30T02:22:24Z")
This IS Alpha Ceti Five!!! ---
**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 30, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/85 "2011-09-30T02:39:28Z")
KHAAAANNNN! KHAAAANNNN! x ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/86 "2011-09-30T02:41:32Z")
Minsk. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/87 "2011-09-30T02:44:11Z")
“She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging… Well, I think of her constantly. And every time I do, I go further out into space.” ---
**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:** [September 30, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/88 "2011-09-30T02:50:31Z")
I… am… KIROK! ---
**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:** [September 30, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/89 "2011-09-30T02:54:49Z")
“Poetry, Captain? Non-regulation.” ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/90 "2011-09-30T02:55:40Z")
(forehead slap) Ceti ALPHA 5… I feel like such a n00b. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/91 "2011-09-30T04:20:20Z")
If I recall correctly, your solution was, shall we say, unique. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/92 "2011-09-30T04:25:50Z")
Are you One, Herbert? ---
**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:** [September 30, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/93 "2011-09-30T04:28:09Z")
Nice legs. For a human. ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/94 "2011-09-30T04:42:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I didn’t mean to say that the Enterprise should be _hauling_ garbage, I meant to say that it should be hauled away _as_ garbage! > > _huge brawl breaks out_ “Laddie… Don’t ye think ye should… _rephrase_ that?” ---
**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 30, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/95 "2011-09-30T06:25:41Z")
Sulu: What do you think, Chekov? Chekov: I think I’m getting spacesick. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/96 "2011-09-30T08:28:27Z")
Spock: I may have been mistaken. McCoy: Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that! And for the record, upon meeting Uhura in _The Squire of Gothos_, Trelaine says, “Ah, a Nubian prize! Taken on one of your raids of conquest, no doubt, Captain? She has the melting eyes of the Queen of Sheba, the same lovely coloring.” ---
**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:** [September 30, 2011, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/97 "2011-09-30T09:56:26Z")
Only the eyes of a chief may see the Eee Plebnista! ---
**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 30, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/98 "2011-09-30T14:01:32Z")
Even the lies? _Especially_ the lies. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/99 "2011-09-30T14:41:28Z")
I…am Brahms. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/100 "2011-09-30T14:42:20Z")
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