Cringeworthy moments
Translating Klingon from books
Crew bunks and galley -- when it's well-established crew had cabins and food was computer-processed
establishing that a phaser cannot be used on board the ship... Only to have a later plot element depend on firing a phaser on the ship.
Searching for botto instead of uniforms... Only to have the boots turn out worthless.
"To rotest work conditions, Dutch workers threw their wooden shoes, called Sabo, into the machinery..."
"An ancestor of mine once maintained that if you eliminate everything that is impossibe..."
"There is an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China"
"re you familiar wi the Russian Fairy Tale of Conderlla?
"The Operation is over"
"I bet you wish you stood in bed"
"We have a heartbeat"
"It's gotta have a tailpipe."
"Care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?" "Fascinating!"
"Court reporter to take statement from. Rewmen Smith and Jones.
Court reporter to take statement from Smith and Jones.
Court reporter
Smith and Jones.
everybody got that? Court reporter to take statement...
"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we are capable of doing a thing, it does not necessarily follow that thatching must be done."
"That was not his kneecaps. (ButI suspect you're to stupid to get thejo,e, so I'll add "Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place." (Some keep the, in alocker, some in asafedeposit box...)
and of course...
totally misunderstanding Shakespeare's use of the term "The Undiscoved Country"
I find this list considerably longer than a similar one forTrek V.
"After years of fighting with reality, I am pleased to say that I have finally won out over it."