# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/81 "2005-02-25T17:36:48Z")
Because he realized that _To Serve Chicken_ was a cookbook. ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/82 "2005-02-25T20:50:50Z")
Because a human was in danger on the other side, and the First Law of Chickonics states that a chicken may not through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. To get to the shelter before Beta, the last sun, sets. He was crossing the road to escape the persuing apes on horseback. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/83 "2005-02-25T22:40:33Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Cube? You sure you’re not thinking of [Timecube](http://www.timecube.com/)? No I mean Cube [www.cubethemovie.com](http://www.cubethemovie.com) > **[Cube (1997) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/)** > > Cube: Directed by Vincenzo Natali. With Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller. Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps. It’s sequels, not so much. ---
**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 25, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/84 "2005-02-25T23:25:51Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > **Unnamed Trek Doper** : > > “Ah. Chicken cutting chickens.” Pah! I looked **all though** that episode, and not **once** was there any mention of chicken-cutting chickens. Chicken I and chicken II, but not chicken-cutting chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/85 "2005-02-25T23:29:54Z")
Piers Anthony: The chicken had to take a copy of the Pecking Order across the road, through the Haunted Woulds, past the Infant Tree, over the KissingMe River, around Mount HeavyRest, under the Bridge of Size, and deliver it to the Kernel of Sanders. ---
**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 25, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/86 "2005-02-25T23:30:05Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > No I mean Cube Too bad, 'cause Timecube is even weirder. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/87 "2005-02-26T00:56:11Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Late Heinlein: > > It becomes evident that the chicken never in fact crossed the road. It was transported to the far side of the road by a self-aware Burroughs-Long continuum craft, without ever crossing the road between the two points. Yeah, but is that before or after it has sex with about 15 other chickens, half of which are somehow related to it? ---
**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 28, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/88 "2005-02-28T03:01:13Z")
The enemy’s gates were down. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/89 "2005-02-28T05:19:53Z")
Kirk: Chicckkkkkhhhhaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!! ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/90 "2005-02-28T10:28:18Z")
To pursue its half black, half white brethren. By the time they had reached the other side of the road, all they had left, was hate… Its the only episode I can think of at this moment… ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/91 "2005-02-28T17:53:30Z")
“Why did the chicken cross the road?” Jem H’adar: “Because he is a chicken. It **is** the **way** of things.” ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/92 "2005-02-28T21:03:20Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > The enemy’s gates were down. Hey Noclue, 1. I already did Ender’s Game 2. Your quote is the quote as is. Nothing has changed in it. = not funny ---
**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 28, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/93 "2005-02-28T21:38:34Z")
:eek: Well, I just now looked at the OP\* and saw no such rule. Plus, using the quote as is actually is funny to me. Besides, they don’t have to be funny. Some are weird and disturbing. 😛 **Lonesomepolecat** , what was that based on? I liked. \*I’m the OP. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/94 "2005-02-28T23:10:09Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > \*I’m the OP. 😃 I’m sorry, but once you crossed the road, you ceased to be the OP. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/95 "2005-03-01T13:07:25Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > :eek: > > Well, I just now looked at the OP\* and saw no such rule. > > Plus, using the quote as is actually is funny to me. Besides, they don’t have to be funny. Some are weird and disturbing. 😛 > > **Lonesomepolecat** , what was that based on? I liked. > > \*I’m the OP. 😃 That little lampoon was a parody of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Consult the _Necronomicon_ for details. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/96 "2005-03-01T14:06:09Z")
Data: Captain, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle dictates that it is impossible know both why the chicken has crossed the road and whether it has achieved the other side. Einstein posited that a quantum yolk matrix- Picard: Thank you, Mr. Data. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/97 "2015-02-27T02:28:27Z")
_The Hunger Games:_ War, terrible war. Widows, orphans, a motherless chick. This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebelled against the country that fed them, loved them, incubated them. Rooster turned on rooster until nothing remained. And then came the peace, hard fought, sorely won. A people rose up from the ashes and a new era was born. But freedom has a cost. When the traitors were defeated, we swore as a nation we would never know this treason again. And so it was decreed that, each year, the various districts of Bantam would offer up, in tribute, one young cock and hen to fight to the death to cross the road in a pageant of honor, courage and sacrifice. The lone victor, bathed in riches, would wander aimlessly around the other side of the road as a reminder of our generosity and our forgiveness. This is how we remember our past. This is how we safeguard our future. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/98 "2015-02-27T02:44:26Z")
**ST: Voyager** [ul] [li]He didn’t; he was shunted to the deflector array.[/li] [li]Because the warp core was about to go critical.[/li] [li]He wanted to modulate the field harmonics.[/li] [li]To get back to his people.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/99 "2015-02-27T02:47:50Z")
**Heisenberg version:** We won’t know that he did until we open the box. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road-star-trek-or-other-sci-fi-version/290293/100 "2015-02-27T02:50:11Z")
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