Real life imitates Star Trek

[pokerfan]

Watching The Enterprise Incident. To recap, Kirk orders the ship to enter Romulan space for no particular reason. I had to laugh out loud at this exchange:

SCOTT: We've not got many choices.
KIRK: We have three. We can fight and be destroyed, or we can destroy the Enterprise ourselves and keep her from the Romulans. Or we can surrender. Opinions, gentlemen.
SCOTT: If the Enterprise is taken by Romulans, they'll know everything there is to know about a starship.
SPOCK: If we had not crossed the Neutral Zone, on your order, you would not now need our opinions to support a decision which should never have had to be made.

Where was Spock in 2003?

[Archae]

1. That episode stunk.

Had plot holes I could fly a starship through.

Was Star Trek's version of the 60's Pueblo incident.

[pokerfan]

2. Yeah, but it had Joanne Linville

[Archae]

3. Oh yeah...

(Skips obvious jokes about photon torpedoes and nacelles, not to mention impulse engines...) :-)

[Richard Steele]

4. Mmmm...I just went to "half impulse", if ya knowhutimean! nm

[brentspeak]

18. I liked it. One of Season Three's better episodes.

And there were some real clunkers there.

[pokerfan]

5. I wanted to kick this

because it got side tracked. My original point was the obvious parallel to the Iraq war.

At least in my mind. Of course, Kirk was working under secret orders to steal the cloaking device. Dubya has no such excuse.

[Pierre.Suave]

6. This is the lounge...

Every thread gets sidetracked to innuendo, it is inevitable.

[Deja Q]

7. Yeah, but this is the Lounge - where Joanne Linville rules!

:D


Hippies too, but that's not important right now...

[Dr. Strange]

11. Nice post, Herbert.

That's right. Herbert.






Herbert!

[Orrex]

14. That's NOW!

[cynatnite]

8. Just be thankful Dick Cheney wasn't Kirk's first officer...

:scared:

Can you imagine?

[pokerfan]

10. McCain = the insane captain

from the Doomsday Machine.

[JTG of the PRB]

19. ...

:spray: :rofl:

Best. Analogy. Ever.

[DS1]

9. I'd still it in her warp drive

/further sidetrack

[Generic Brad]

12. And where was Spock before they crossed the Neutral Zone?

We had plenty of Spocks around in 2003. We just didn't have anyone interested in listening to logic.

[CreekDog]

13. If it's like real life, then how come you never see anybody cleaning?

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

15. You won't have to clean in the future.

Or potty.

[CreekDog]

16. that explains why there are no flies on their uniforms!

:think:

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. I was hoping you were going to tell us teleportation was now possible.

Damn, I'm still stuck with automobiles and airplanes.