On diversity:
“Spock is only alien on the
whole ship?”
On Bones asking, “Do I
have a choice” about landing party duty:
“I like him.”
On cryogenic space
travel:
“Like they used in Planet of the Apes…except here it
worked.”
On Spock saying he is
not capable of irritation:
“YES HE IS!”
On how the language
hasn’t changed in hundreds of years:
“It’s weird how they use
all the same words in the future.”
Me- “So we understand
them.”
Kahn- “English I thought
I dreamed hearing it.”
Me- “See?”
“Humph.”
On Starfleet security:
“Don’t beam him on to
the ship!”
“Any patient can see
blueprints and tech manuals? Kirk thought he was a prisoner!”
On Kahn’s overtures to
Lieutenant McGivers:
“He’s doing her hair?”
“It was ugly…but it
looks the same now that he’s done anyway.”
“She has issues.”
On Kirk’s commendation
speech before passing out:
“Yeah! Take
responsibility this is all your fault.”
On Kirk in the Decon
chamber:
“Is he pooping in
there?”
On Kahn crushing a
phaser:
“Whoah! Its
smooshed! It was probably just plastic
but still.”
On yet another fight in
engineering:
“Why didn’t they use the
thing Kirk hit him with when anyone else was there?”
On dropping all charges
against Kahn:
“WHAT!?!?!”
On the movie that
follows this episode:
“Does the same actor
come back?”
Me – “Yes”
“YAY!”
On Kirk knowing the
Milton quote:
“Of course he knows.
Kirk read everything. He was a nerd until that flashy light chair thing.”
On logging:
“He’s not even talking
this time. It is all in his head.
Maybe the ship crashed
on Talos IV and only Kirk survived.”
On Ambassador Fox’s
introduction:
“He’s a butt.”
On any time Scotty being
in charge is referenced, he did something clever, or blew off Fox:
“YEAHH!!!”
[Kirk earned quite a few
in this one as well.]
On female Eminiar 7
outfits:
“I like the toga thing
with yoga leggings.”
On male Eminiar 7
outfits (top half):
“Is that a Klingon
uniform?”
On male Eminiar 7
outfits (bottom half):
My wife- “Is that the
official half wedgie uniform?”
On mind melding through
the wall:
“Wow, the writers had no
other ideas?
Why didn’t Spock just
push through the Styrofoam wall and grab him?”
On Ambassador Fox being
told nothing could be done about his impending execution:
“HA HA!”
On Scotty’s evaluation
of the situation, “The haggis in is the fire now!”:
*laughs, falls off
couch, rolls around a bit, pauses playback to run to bathroom still laughing
hysterically*
On Kirk saying he didn’t
know his plan would work:
“Oh yes he did. He’s the Captain.”
On the appearance of
Omicron Ceti III (or any planet in most episodes):
“It’s Earth again.”
ON DeSalle’s return:
“Yay! Wait, why are they asking him about the
botany report instead of Sulu?”
On Leila having met
Spock before:
“What? When?
Once upon a dream?”
On Sulu saying he
wouldn’t recognize danger two feet from him, when the spore plant is two feet
from him:
“Nice one, writers.”
After being sprayed:
“It’s always Sulu.”
On having vague memories
of these from when she was younger:
“When does Spock hang in
the tree?”- repeated endlessly until it happened.
On the plants reportedly
having microscopic spores:
“Uh, no. They spit out
giant confetti.”
On Jim alone on the
Enterprise:
“Awwwww. Yup, he’s still recording.”
On why the spores didn’t
affect Kirk’s drive:
“He’s awesome.”
On Spock’s superhuman
strength:
“Lord have mercy! AAAAAAHHH!!!”
On Spock telling Leila
she couldn’t pronounce his other name:
“I bet its Phil. Phil
Spock.”
On McCoy saying it was
the second time they were thrown out of paradise:
“Does he mean ‘Shore
Leave’?”
Me – “No Genesis…the
Bible.”
“Oh yeah.”
On Spock having the
final line:
“They end with him a
lot. He must be their favorite.”
On the gorgeous Matte
shot of the mining facility:
“Hello, painting!”
On the combination of
the Enterprise crew’s and miner’s uniforms:
*intense discussion
between my wife and daughter whether they all look more like the Wiggles or the
Imagination Movers.”
On Scotty being awesome,
again:
“Yay!”
On anyone saying “Phaser
Number Two”:
“Hee hee, it sounds
funny.”
On the nodules:
“Those are important.
Are they eggs? That would be cool.”
On the Horta’s
appearance:
“AAAAAAH!! That’s the most disturbing thing I’ve ever
seen, or at least one of them.”
“It has tentacles too!
Ick!”
On the Kirk Spock
relationship after the roof caves in on the Captain:
Spock- “Captain? Are you
all right”
My wife *imitating the
Vulcan* - “JIM!”
Spock- “Jim? Jim!”
“Nice call, Mami.”
On why no acid comes off
the section they phaser off:
“Styrofoam doesn’t
secrete.”
On Spock switching from
his initial stance to telling Jim, “Kill it.”:
“What?!? Emotions maybe?” *singing* “I got a feeling…
ooooh.”
On Kirk expressing the
need for the return of the retardation mechanism:
“Retard mechanism???”
*falls off couch again*
On the Horta’s life
cycle, based on the entire race dying out every 50,000 years:
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