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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:07 PM
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Trekkers: Which species do the Democrats remind you of?
Essentially, 24th century humans. Though being a Dean supporter, I can say that there is some Klingon among Dean supporters.
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:12 PM
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1. Ka'Pla!
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-04 04:29 AM
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16. i dont know about the dems
but the repubs are definately the Ferengi
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:14 PM
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2. Tribbles?
:shrug:
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DifferentStrokes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:23 PM
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4. Yes
:-)
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:29 PM
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8. Hey now that just not....
oh look, Quatrotriticali!!!!! crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch crunch...
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:21 PM
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3. In the original series , there was a race..
that was decimated (I don't remember how it happened), and it was down to its last representative, a young woman (Miri?). This woman had the power to heal others by taking on their wounds. The task given the woman was supposed to demonstrate her worthiness, and that of her race, for survival. She hesitated, fearing the pain and possibly death, when McCoy was presented to her broken and bleeding and close to death. The real test was of her selflessness. In the end, she saved McCoy, after absorbing all of his injuries, but it took a long time for her to decide.
We have the ability to accomplish great social change, but we hesitate because of the things we might lose if we try. If we don't try now, pretty soon it will be too late, just as it was almost too late for Miri?
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:27 PM
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5. Bones called her "Gem"
Excellent acting on her part. Not a single word was spoken.
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:32 PM
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9. Thanks!...I couldn't remember her name daily senility attack
came earlier than usual today.:toast:
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-04 07:19 AM
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17. That was from the episode The Empath
Miri was from the episode where there were no adults around.

The Republicans are definitely a mix between the Klingons and the Ferengi (you will be assimilated).
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:28 PM
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6. Oh man!
I'm a Clarkie and I wanted to be a Klingon!

I guess I'll have to settle for a Betazoid or something.
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:29 PM
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7. Don't you mean Trekkies?
I think of Trekkers as folks who wander high into Himalayas and such.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:45 PM
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11. Nope!
The true fans find Trekkies offensive and coined the term Trekkers at least 20 years ago. And i should know, i am one!

Afficianados of Next Generation then went on to coin Nexters as a way of showing their preference in the Trekker world. Then the DS9 folks called themselves Niners. I've never heard Voyager folks use their own term, though.
The Professor
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:48 PM
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14. I'd have to say they stole the term, and I doubt it was 20 years ago.
Edited on Tue Jan-13-04 02:51 PM by HuckleB
But whatever keeps 'em going. I guess there's always got to be division.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-04 01:56 AM
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15. I believe the term for Voyager and Enterprise fans is...
Edited on Wed Jan-14-04 02:00 AM by JonathanChance
"On fucking drugs or something"


The people in the Trek community tend to dislike Voyager and Enterprise because of both poor quality writing and Rick Berman's fucking around with the timline of the Trek universe.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:38 PM
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10. The Morg (or I-Morg)
The women who stole Spock's brain.

One of them says "I am for D'Amato!" before she kills a red shirt dude.
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-04 07:48 AM
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18. you're mixing episodes
The women who stole Spock's brain are in "Spock's Brain"

The woman who says "I am for D'Amato" was from the episode "That Which Survives"
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-04 05:19 PM
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20. Ah yes, thanks for that
n/t
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:46 PM
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12. If that is the case, Republicans are Cardassians
With their superior attitude and sham trials.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-04 02:47 PM
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13. Nonsense, they're Cybermen. Or is it Daleks?
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-04 05:12 PM
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19. The Borg
resistance is futile
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