TSFS: Minor dialogue during return to Spacedock

[Ubiquitousclate]

Occurring during the Enterprise's return to Spacedock, and several seconds before Uhura says "would you look at that" in regard to Excelsior.

On-screen is the control booth(?) where control of opening and closing of Spacedock doors occurs, and the two young fellas doing so.

The line that I hear as perhaps "chatter" sounds to be "thing in" and comes right before another voice says "acknowledge; doors are closing."

It's so minor as to be laughable, but can it really be "thing in?"

I ask this and for years, when unable to raise shields during the battle with the BOP, I thought that Scotty said "urination system is overloaded," but knew that couldn't be right.

Not sure if a video link for this scene would help...?

 

[Ssosmcin]

I always heard it as "Say again." "Acknowledged, doors are closing."

 

[David cgc]

I always heard "thing in," too, but it wouldn't be my only Trek mondegrene, especially from stuff I first saw when I was little. "Say again" certainly makes more sense.

I'm not sure if you're asking or already figured this out, but later in the movie, Scotty is saying "The automation system is overloaded."

 

[Doug Otte]

Occurring during the Enterprise's return to Spacedock, and several seconds before Uhura says "would you look at that" in regard to Excelsior.

On-screen is the control booth(?) where control of opening and closing of Spacedock doors occurs, and the two young fellas doing so.

The line that I hear as perhaps "chatter" sounds to be "thing in" and comes right before another voice says "acknowledge; doors are closing."

It's so minor as to be laughable, but can it really be "thing in?"

I ask this and for years, when unable to raise shields during the battle with the BOP, I thought that Scotty said "urination system is overloaded," but knew that couldn't be right.

Not sure if a video link for this scene would help...?

Did you check the subtitles? I will if you haven't.

 

[Vger23]

Definitely "say again"

 

[Ubiquitousclate]

I always heard "thing in," too, but it wouldn't be my only Trek mondegrene, especially from stuff I first saw when I was little. "Say again" certainly makes more sense.

I'm not sure if you're asking or already figured this out, but later in the movie, Scotty is saying "The automation system is overloaded."

Yes, it took me a number of years (I was seven when I first saw it), and to this day, it's easier for me to hear "urination" and then chuckle about it.

 

[David cgc]

Yes, it took me a number of years (I was seven when I first saw it), and to this day, it's easier for me to hear "urination" and then chuckle about it.

I was even younger when I though Scotty said “any man with manufactured feet” instead of “who could manage such a feat” in TMP.

 

[Jeyl]

Me when I was eight years old misinterpreting that line.

"Thing in."

How dare you! That's the Enterprise! Show some respect! ​

I also noted how despite all the "Acknowledge, doors are closing", the doors are not in fact closing behind the Enterprise in both shots. It's almost as if they say that line whenever the button to close the doors is pressed, but since it didn't happen, they pressed it again, said "Acknowledge, doors are closing" but they still didn't close. No wonder Scotty had trouble getting them open.

 

[Doug Otte]

Me when I was eight years old misinterpreting that line.

"Thing in."​

​

How dare you! That's the Enterprise! Show some respect! ​

I also noted how despite all the "Acknowledge, doors are closing", the doors are not in fact closing behind the Enterprise in both shots. It's almost as if they say that line whenever the button to close the doors is pressed, but since it didn't happen, they pressed it again, said "Acknowledge, doors are closing" but they still didn't close. No wonder Scotty had trouble getting them open.

The doors probably just need some WD-40.

 

[CoveTom]

The doors probably just need some WD-40.

There is no 23rd or 24th century technology that could ever eclipse WD-40 and duct tape in functionality.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I was even younger when I though Scotty said “any man with manufactured feet” instead of “who could manage such a feat” in TMP.

That sounds like amisheard lyrics. I heard “children of the little mind” when I heard “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” Actual lyrics: “children of thalidomide.”

 

[tharpdevenport]

The "urination system" might be over-loaded ... on "The Orville".

 

[Ubiquitousclate]

That sounds like amisheard lyrics. I heard “children of the little mind” when I heard “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” Actual lyrics: “children of thalidomide.”

This is far, far outside the realm of living memory in pop culture, but since I collect "antique" 78rom records and Edison Diamond Discs, I thought I'd mention it in regard to a song from 1916: My Hawaiian Sunshine.

The first tine that I heard the song on a rather scratchy-sounding record, the lyrics "for your little Malahini Boy" sounded very much to me as "your little many-headed boy."

I really do think that the "mistake" is better than the original, nine times out of ten.

Thus, long live "thing in" and the "urination system."