# Why did the chicken cross the road? - Star Trek (or other Sci-Fi) version **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293 "2005-02-16T01:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/41 "2005-02-19T17:36:46Z")
Wheel Of Time By Robert Jordan: We don’t know yet, but we think it will be revealed in Volume 20. So she could smooth her dress and tug on her braid in frustration. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/42 "2005-02-19T17:49:44Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > Picard: There! ARE! FOUR! CHICKENS! That’s the spirit! [/Roy Batty] I don’t know why he crossed the road. Maybe in those last moments he loved crossing roads more than he ever had before. Not just this road, any road. My road. All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? Is there anything good to eat on the other side of the road? All I could do was sit there and watch him die. Napoleon Dynamite: Do the chickens have large talons? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/43 "2005-02-19T17:56:08Z")
More Picard… That chicken invades our space, and we fall back. He crosses our roads, and yet we fall back. The line must be drawn HERE! THIS far, NO further! And IIIIIIIII… will make that chicken bastard PAY for what he’s done!!! * * * Aliens: That chicken’s here! He got across the road! Game over, man! Game Over!!! ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/44 "2005-02-19T18:05:34Z")
Garak: “THAT is an excellent question, doctor. But what makes you think that I, a simple tailor, would have the answer?” T’Pol: “The Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that chickens cannot cross roads.” The Borg: “The chicken is borg. It crossed the road to assimilate humanity.” (Borg chicken: “_Ba-GAWWWK!_ You will be assimilated. Resistance is _BA-GAWWWWKK!_ futile.”) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/45 "2005-02-19T21:18:50Z")
“I find your lack of Poultry…_disturbing_.” ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/46 "2005-02-20T00:41:07Z")
_The Terminator_ It crosses roads! That’s what it _does_! It never gets hungry, it never gets tired - you can’t plead with it, you can’t reason with it - it will never stop until it has crossed! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/47 "2005-02-20T01:01:23Z")
_Starship Troopers:_ Like every species, chickens need to expand their living space for the sake of racial survival. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/48 "2005-02-20T01:10:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > _Star Wars:_ > > It was seduced by the lure of power promised by the Other Side of the Road. _The Bantam Menace_ ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/49 "2005-02-20T01:31:52Z")
Because, in every generation, there is a Chosen One. It alone will cross the road, to see what is on the other side. It is The Chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/50 "2005-02-20T02:16:29Z")
…to put flowers on Algernon’s grave. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/51 "2005-02-20T02:34:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > – from _Chicken-\_\_It,_ by Stephen King! 😃 Thank you. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/52 "2005-02-20T02:36:35Z")
Because Scorpius was in his frellin’ head forcing him to figure out how to get to the other side. Farscape ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/53 "2005-02-20T02:40:13Z")
Because he wanted to shop smart. He wanted to shop S-mart. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/54 "2005-02-20T03:02:13Z")
Because Omega Company wasn’t camping on the other side of the road. To escape being the apprentice of a Pervert. -----------------------------------That’s Pervect!!! Sorry, Pervect! (mouths Per-vert) To Help Col. Sanders bring back the Elder Gods. (Zelazny) Because everyone suddenly realized he wasn’t a man, but was really a 6 foot tall Chicken. (I never really got Chicken Boo, but hey, he works great here) Because the chicken had unwittingly become the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. To retrieve a shrubbery. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/55 "2005-02-20T04:06:03Z")
Little and Henny Penny, at the roadside. Shaka, when the sky fell. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/56 "2005-02-20T08:22:02Z")
Chinese Chicken Salad is a dish best served cold. With my last cluck, I peck at thee. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/57 "2005-02-20T11:46:33Z")
(Just guess): The chickens mainly cross the road at night. Mostly. Akira: _“CHIIICKEEEN!”_ _“ROOOAD!”_ ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/58 "2005-02-20T12:30:01Z")
The chicken is traveling through another dimension – a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the other side of the road! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/59 "2005-02-23T08:35:20Z")
> [@Monstre](#): > > Picard: There! ARE! FOUR! CHICKENS! Inquisitor: “And if the Party says there are five chickens, **then** how many?” (It always amazes me how few people realize that that particular _ST:TNG_ episode was a rip-off of Winston Smith’s torture scenes in _ **Nineteen Eighty-Four** _.) ---
**Author:** ![hildea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ebca7d/32.png) [@hildea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hildea)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/60 "2005-02-23T10:41:46Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > A song of Fire and Ice: > > To die unexpectedly. It wasn’t really unexpected, was it? I mean, just look at how the chicken is described in the books – _of course_ Martin was going to kill it off eventually. The chicken crossed honorably. The chicken crossed bravely. The chicken crossed valiantly. And the chicken died. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293.md?page=4)