Quadibloc wrote: > On Nov 4, 9:37 am, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote:
> > Okay, but in first season Next Generation, wasn't the Federation or > > Starfleet ultimately revealed as secretly run by Trills? So a lot of > > the orders will have been weird.
> Oh, no, not the nice Trills, but bad bugs.
You think? Oh, they /call/ themselves symbiotes, or their helpless victims do. But that don't make it so.
In article <adfdc596-ded0-4a88-a421-2565e1429...@o10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote:
>Quadibloc wrote: >> On Nov 4, 9:37 am, Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote:
>> > Okay, but in first season Next Generation, wasn't the Federation or >> > Starfleet ultimately revealed as secretly run by Trills? So a lot of >> > the orders will have been weird.
>> Oh, no, not the nice Trills, but bad bugs.
>You think? Oh, they /call/ themselves symbiotes, or their helpless >victims do. But that don't make it so.
Many years ago, someone in one of the SF groups misread "dorsal trill" as "Dorsai Trill", leading to a pun cascade with gems like: "How bad is it, Ian?" "Bad--you took a slug in the belly."
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