Captain's blog, stardate 9274.8....
My sister Mary and I often end up chatting on Skype. Unfortunately Mary tends to quickly switch from having meaningful conversations with me to copy-pasting Star Trek quotes that she gets from iGoogle, for no apparent reason. I guess she thinks it's funny. Anyway, one time she was doing this copy-paste quote thing and I came up with the brilliant idea of playing along.
Hence, Awesome Game #1: In which Mary quotes Star Trek and I am a psychiatrist.
Here's a brief sample: (NB: iGoogle gives Mary quotes from all the Star Trek series, so don't be surprised if you don't recognize some of these.)
Mary: You're in love with a computer subroutine?
Elizabeth: No. Are you in love with a computer subroutine?
Mary: It's like being pecked to death by ducks.
Elizabeth: Well, I've never loved a subroutine myself so I wouldn't know. Is it very difficult for you? What does your family think about it?
Mary: I think I'm in trouble.
Elizabeth: Because your family doesn't approve?
Mary: I think I'm in love.
Elizabeth: With a computer subroutine, yes, you've already said so.
Mary: On my home-world it's much simpler. You choose a mate for life. There's no distrust, no envy, no betrayal.
Elizabeth: And you feel betrayed because your family doesn't support your choice?
Mary: Didn't think I had it in me, did you?
Elizabeth: This isn't about what I think of you. Tell me more about your family.
Mary: We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job.
Elizabeth: So you consider them "weird"?
Here's another:
Mary: Either I've become impervious to antimatter explosions, or we're still dreaming.
Elizabeth: Dreaming? So you've dreamed about being impervious to explosions. That means you feel youself to be very powerful, even invincible.
Mary: I was trying to blend in!
Elizabeth: I see. And you weren't accepted into the group.
Mary: I had not considered that...It is a risk I am willing to take.
Elizabeth: What risk are you talking about ?
Mary: The anomaly, my ship, my crew, I suppose you're worried about your fish too.
Elizabeth: I'm not worried about my fish. But I am worried about you. What is this anomaly?
Mary: Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?
As you can see, we're very good at this. But since it gets annoying for me, I limit our "therapy" to once a week. However, Mary found out that iGoogle also has Star Wars quotes, and decided to copy-paste some for me even though she doesn't like Star Wars. (I know! How can anyone not like Star Wars?!) Introducing...Awesome Game #2, In Which Mary Quotes Star Wars and I Quote Star Trek.
(I didn't get my quotes from iGoogle, they were all ones I remembered or found in my Star Trek notebook, so they're pretty much all from the original series.)
We only played this game once, which was tonight, but look how good we are at it:
Mary: I've got a bad feeling about this.
Elizabeth: Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. [Spock]
...
Mary: Are you sure about this; trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know? The Queen will not approve. [Padme]
Elizabeth: I've already got a female to worry about. Her name is the Enterprise. [Kirk]
Mary: Well I don't approve. [Padme]
Elizabeth: You will cease to pry into my personal matters, Doctor, or I shall certainly break your neck. [Spock]
Mary: You Jedi are far too reckless. The Queen trusts... [Padme]
Elizabeth: Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in the galaxy that can make that claim. [Kirk]
Mary: For a mechanic, you seem to do an excessive amount of thinking. [C-3P0]
Elizabeth: I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!! [McCoy]
Ah man...I'm such a nerd and I love every second of it.
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