{"id":17578,"date":"2018-08-30T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17578"},"modified":"2018-08-30T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:28:21","slug":"trek-house-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/08\/30\/trek-house-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek house rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>For a long time, I\u2019ve been intermittently collecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/fortunes\/\">fortune-cookie fortunes<\/a> that I find entertaining with phrases like <i>in bed<\/i> or <i>between the sheets<\/i> added.<\/p>\r\n<p>The other day, Kam came up with a new-to-us variation: adding <i>between the sheets<\/i> after lines of dialogue in <cite>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/cite> episodes.<\/p>\r\n<p>I didn\u2019t write down any examples at the time, but here are a couple of examples from s2e20, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chakoteya.net\/NextGen\/146.htm\">The Emissary<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>The rendezvous will be a bit tricky, so it is imperative you reach the intercept point on schedule.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The envoy will fill you in.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Probe is coming up to starboard.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I\u2019m concerned that you\u2019re working yourself too hard.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The game kept us giggling through a couple of episodes.<\/p>\r\n<p>(For more of my puerile-humor streak, see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2000\/04\/23\/iiinnuendo\/\">Column iii<\/a>, where I wrote about replacing words from <cite>Trek<\/cite> quotes with the word <i>pants<\/i>.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,41,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-games","category-maledicta","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17582,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions\/17582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}