[Closed] Swearing on Star Trek

It always seemed to me that in addition to becoming very naval like and regulation obsessed, Star Fleet banned swearing.

Lots of TV very potty mouthed today. I don’t think it’s needed.

Kirk once called Spock a "vulcan idiot" IIRR. I like to imagine it was deliberately naughty scriptwriting 😀

As long as no one was asked for their Christian name we’re all good

12 rated, innit?

That's higher than this forum.

I was surprised not shocked really, themes are a little stronger than some previous so not aimed at universal appeal.

I've not seen this week's. Is it "shucky darn" or "see you next Tuesday" or somewhere in between?

I can't say.

It begins with an F and ends in a monarch.

Unusual Shirley, Trekkies aren’t normally potty mouthed in that there are plenty of words in many languages they could use..

Naughty naughty, very naughty.

IMO.

IMHO using words that everyone knows is a swear word just slightly changed is lame and pointless. Everyone knows

It begins with an F and ends in a monarch.

Fuqueen?

Fhenry

Fbhumibol Adulyadej?

IMHO using words that everyone knows is a swear word just slightly changed is lame and pointless. Everyone knows

I'd say that's either more than slightly changed or you will be getting an email about filter avoidance 🙂
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I am swearing at Star Trek because I can’t find I on Netflix!!

In the US at the moment , is it not on here ?

https://www.netflix.com/title/80126024
Click that link and it should take you to the right region version

Thanks Mike but that did not work.

I am in Chicago if that makes any difference.

It is on in the US though not sure how netflix is playing cross border, I managed to watch some netflix stuff when I was over there.
ah you need CBS
https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1539370/where-star-trek-discovery-will-air

Cheers Mike I will just catch up when I get back .

hols2 - Member
Fbhumibol Adulyadej?

Surely they could be a bit inventive and not rely on common or garden terms. I noticed the potential for one reading this morning's Independent: an act of CarlyLunngus.

Gadsbudlikins!

Not to be a snoutband triptaker, but it seems a bit daft to think that in 2255 people will still be using 2017 swear words, especially after meeting so many other species with different languages.

Not to be a snoutband triptaker, but it seems a bit daft to think that in 2255 people will still be using 2017 swear words, especially after meeting so many other species with different languages.

I had a similar thought. I'd have expected something more contemporary. Though we're using it [url= https://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-mohr/a-****ing-short-history-of_b_3352948.html ]500 years on from its apparent Germanic origin[/url].

It did seem out of character for Star Trek.

well out of character! do not like. Mirror bit at the end was good / intriguing though.

but it seems a bit daft to think that in 2255 people will still be using 2017 swear words

"Goddam it lieutenant, that's a ridiculous idea. Are you being such a [i]Grayling[/i] on purpose?"

"Captain, the engines cannae take it. I'm dealing with a massive pile of [i]Cordern[/i] here".

"Don't give me that [i]Piers Morgan[/i], I need warp speed right now!"

Totally need to read this book:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/23/holy-shit-history-swearing-mohr

Warning: article about swearing contains swearing.

Okay, it's a film...

anyway https://twitter.com/swear_trek

Was a bit random.

but it seems a bit daft to think that in 2255 people will still be using 2017 swear words

It seems a bit daft to think that in 2255 people will still be using 2017 [i]words[/i]. What did English sound like in 1779?

and Kirk said "Klingon Bastard", but then that was a film also.

Picard said 'shit' in an episode....in French

Well that's true mike - but I think that's an allowable concession.

If they were all speaking a futuristic Mandarin/Spanish/English/Urdu/Vulcan hybrid pidgin language then it might be more realistic but it would get a bit wearing. 😀

Firefly?

It seems a bit daft to think that a fictional science fiction series set in 2255 would worry too much about the future linguistic evolution of swear words.

Just watched it, must have missed the swearing! Which bit is it?

I'm more confused that they name dropped Elon Musk who, on the grand scale of things, hasn't yet done anything as monumental as the wrist brothers (First successful plane (I know there is debate around that)) and Zefram Cochrane who invented the first warp drive.

Elon Musk has done some real cool shit don't get me wrong, but he's not invented anything on the scale of plane flight or faster than light space travel. Yet, anyway.

the wrist brothers

I think it was a nod to the future an a pat on the back/in joke

plyphon - Member
Elon Musk has done some real cool shit don't get me wrong, but he's not invented anything on the scale of plane flight or faster than light space travel. Yet, anyway.

He's taken self promotion of one's ego to new heights? 😆

I did wonder if because these seem to be aired on the likes of Netflix etc and are not shown on exclusively on terrestrial tv in the way they have been they can break away from the watershed restrictions.

the wrist brothers

Whoops lol

Elon Musk has done some real cool shit don't get me wrong, but he's not invented anything on the scale of plane flight or faster than light space travel. Yet, anyway.

He’s done a lot more than Zefram Cochrane will ever do.

So apart from being a committed environmentalist; kick-starting the mainstream electric vehicle market; the Boring company; pushing solar farms and home batteries; creating a worldwide transactional system and building a reusable rocket that can make a hypersonic reentry into the earth's atmosphere backwards and then land on a postage stamp... actually, yeah, he's not really done much, has he?

This doesn't even include the hyperloop or Falcon Heavy project, or his Mars endeavours...

Well yes but he didn’t fictionally discover the hyperdrive.

GrahamS - Member

Not to be a snoutband triptaker, but it seems a bit daft to think that in 2255 people will still be using 2017 swear words

That doesn't just apply to swear words, the whole language will shift over time, but you can't really deal with any of that on a TV show

Hipster swearing.

you do realise it's the Mirror Universe don't you

Never mind the swearing, what's Clem Fandango doing locked up aboard a klingon warbird?

You're all just a bunch of Fracking Tardigrades 😀

It begins with an F and ends in a monarch.

https://www.avclub.com/damn-it-jim-a-brief-history-of-swearing-on-star-trek-1819617254

I never even noticed the swearing.....

Never mind the swearing, what's Clem Fandango doing locked up aboard a klingon warbird?

I suspect that Clem Fandango is going to play a major role in the rest of the series otherwise that episodes storyline was fairly pointless.