# 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:** 9
**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 3, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/161 "2011-10-03T03:26:38Z")
Data (sipping from his drink): “I hate this! It is revolting!” Guinan: “More?” Data: “Please!” ---
**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 3, 2011, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/162 "2011-10-03T10:25:00Z")
“The unit is a woman” “a mass of conflicting impulses” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/163 "2011-10-03T14:59:58Z")
His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking. ---
**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 3, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/164 "2011-10-03T15:18:16Z")
“Having a thing is not as pleasing as wanting a thing. It is not logical, but it is often true.” ---
**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 3, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/165 "2011-10-03T15:19:28Z")
Festival! Festival! ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/166 "2011-10-03T15:22:54Z")
“Why don’t you explain that to Mr. Worf? In the meantime, I will look forward to meeting Weyoun 10.” ---
**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 3, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/167 "2011-10-03T15:27:42Z")
“People like tribbles, Spock. They’re soft and they make a pleasing sound.” “So would an ermine violin, Doctor, but I see no point in having one.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/168 "2011-10-03T15:40:57Z")
That’s called a “California license plate”, and it’s registered, or was in 1968, to a corporation known as “NBC”. Wait… there’s something more… The computer isn’t sure, but it thinks this NBC used to manufacture cookies. ---
**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 3, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/169 "2011-10-03T16:21:43Z")
I know this world needs help. That’s why some of my generation are kind of crazy and rebels, you know. We wonder if we’re going to be alive when we’re thirty. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/170 "2011-10-03T16:56:31Z")
No more blah, blah, blah! ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/171 "2011-10-03T16:58:02Z")
You may find that _having_ is not so nearly pleasing a thing as _wanting_. It is not logical, but it is often true. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/172 "2011-10-03T17:11:23Z")
“Kirk! You can’t do this to me! It’s _inhuman_!” ---
**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 3, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/173 "2011-10-03T17:25:40Z")
nothing unreal exists ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/174 "2011-10-03T17:26:48Z")
You’re part Vulcanian, aren’t you? ---
**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 3, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/175 "2011-10-03T17:32:03Z")
If you can’t get those warp engines working, you’re fired. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/176 "2011-10-03T17:42:13Z")
“We’re going nowhere mighty fast." ---
**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:** [October 3, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/177 "2011-10-03T18:18:26Z")
“First star on the right, then straight until morning.” ---
**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 3, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/178 "2011-10-03T18:18:50Z")
“She was nova, that one.” ---
**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 3, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/179 "2011-10-03T18:49:50Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > You may find that _having_ is not so nearly pleasing a thing as _wanting_. It is not logical, but it is often true. See post 164. “Military secrets are the most fleeting.” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-non-sequitur-thread/597975/180 "2011-10-03T18:53:24Z")
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