TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Flying Squid @lemmy.world 2mo ago

But what was the reference?!?

I haven't been this frustrated in ages. You know whatever the reference was, he got it completely wrong.

"Sydney is so crazy, it's like when Mr. Spock got his liver stolen by Cardassians!"

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They're eating the tribbles, they're eating the Alpha 177 Canines.
- They protein resequenced Porthos, they protein resequenced Spot, they’re protein resequencing the non-sentient beings aboard the ship!
  
  What I won't do is take in two hundred thousand Bajorans who could be Maquis... I have been watching this migration. And I see the people. I mean, they're men. They're mostly men, and they're strong men. These are physically young, strong men. They look like prime-time soldiers. Now it's probably not true, but where are the women?... So, you ask two things. Number one, why aren't they fighting for their world? And number two, I don't want these people coming over here.
We're all going to assume that this guy actually made a coherent, relevant, intelligent or even sensible comment that had anything anywhere remotely related to Star Trek?
- Of course not. That's exactly why I want to know.
  
  What's more upsetting, if he used it as an insult, or if he made an insightful and knowledgeable reference?
The only thing Trump probably remembers that's Star Trek themed is "Beam me up Scotty", which he probably said instead of calling her a space cadet. His generation thinks space is a fantasy land of rocks and nerds.
- I bet this was it. James Trafficant was a congressman who used to end his speeches by saying "Beam me up" which I understand was a way to say "this shit is crazy / out of this world"
- I'd say Trump was the right age for the demographics when Star Trek TOS aired. He would have been 20.
  
  It's just that he would have no interest in a socialist utopia full of diversity and equality, including (mostly, it was the 60s) gender equality and where you talk things out first rather than come in guns blazing.
  
  He's against all of that.
  
  And he probably wouldn't be able to take it when Kirk got the pretty girl and he didn't because TV is reality to him.
  
  There are plenty of “anti-woke” Trekkies these days, so I’d say cognitive dissonance ran rampant back then too.
  
  He saw TOS as a warning of the future!
- He went to military school, Ensign Ricky is a pretty common reference to being both unknown and totally expendable.
  
  Fred Trump and his generation used military school as a way to reform shithead kids before they turned 18. Doesn't seem to have had much impact on Don so Ensign Ricky may not have stuck. Besides, he was talking about Sidney Powell, and gender is important to him, so he may have avoided the comparison because of the misgendering.
Surely he said "I'm sorry, " which is a clear reference to the episode Measure Of A Man during the moment where Riker had to forcibly disable his friend while removing his forearm.
- I was thinking maybe he was quoting Garth of Izar, who said, "silence! The chatter of inferior weaklings wearies me." He may have also quoted Garth and said, "you're the only woman on this planet, you stupid cow!"
  
  This is a fair assumption. Though he may have quoted The Gorn by staring menacingly with an open mouth and lumbering towards an opponent.
"can't we just do that volcano mind meld thing that Vader does?"

Edit: it should have been Kardashians
All of y'all are wrong. He screeched "FEmAleS" like a Ferengi.
"I hate Sidney. She's coarse and rough and irritating, and she gets everywhere."
My assumption is that he said something like "It all sounds like made-up Star Trek bullshit."
It's probably a Pakled quote, trying to appeal to his base.
- We look for fake electors to make the MAGA go.
  
  He is smart! The smartest! Everyone says that he is the smartest.
I have no doubt it was "Resistance is futile."
- I imagine that's what he says to any woman he's alone in a room with.
- Ya, but you just know that he pronounced 'futile' with a silent "I" sound, instead of ī like you're supposed to.
  
  Sometimes I can't tell if people are saying 'futile' or 'feudal'.
  
  "I don't say sabotage. You say sabotage. I say 'sabahtahj'"
The screencap cuts off the content in the document embedded in the tweet.
- It does, but it never says what the reference was either way. You can see that from what wasn't clipped.
  
  Yes, but the reading comprehension for folks with reading disabilities still makes it very difficult.
- Unfortunately footnote 224 just says "GA258-260 (description redacted)", which is probably the transcript of the conversation.
Are we sure he wasn't just fumbling with buttons on the phone, making a series of beeps that they thought was a reference to Pike in The Menagerie?
- "Should we lie and say the election was stolen, sir?"
  
  "He says yes."
  
  Beep beep.
  
  "Double yes!"
I'm going out on a limp and just assuming that he accidentally quoted Quark or the rules of acquisition. And because he said something so random, baseless, and/or sexist there was an assumption that he was quoting trek on purpose.
He did the Vulcan salute but with his arm fully outstretched at a 45 degree angle.
What are the dark mode tags?
- Things that are redacted.
  
  Right, but is there a rhyme or reason for the codes? Specifically the literal part?
- Black highliter.

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