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Even the shittiest Sci-Fi is way too cerebral. Unless you want to assign them the role of a particularly boorish species, like Morlocks.

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You're going to go and make me look up the original episode he's quoting, aren't you?

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from the captioning log:

<i>It is said ... thy Vulcan blood is thin. Are thee Vulcan ... or are thee human?</i>

Prissy, I assume your core competency here is in Elizabethan English or some such, not Vulcan or its rendering into TV English, which seems to be more like Quaker plain speaking than the KJB.

Or are you saying that being difficult is your core competency? If so, I grieve with thee. (T'Pao, <i>Amok Time</i>)

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T'Pao is one of the most wonderful characters in all of fiction, I feel.

Talk nerdy to me, Pristine.

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He's dead, Jim.

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That boulder is too large. I could life a smaller one.

</nerd>

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Spitzer on Countdown? Wow...the fall continues...

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PRIORITIES!

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