An interesting video.

[Gingerbread Demon]

I don't know if these things count for anything but I found it fascinating, in that someone collected and arranged every utterance of the phrase "some kind of something" during every Star Trek series.

Let the video begin.

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[Tosk]

during every Star Trek series.

No, just Voyager. Which, to be fair, probably accounts for 97% of this phrase in all Trek.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I could only take two minutes of it then had to stop, it's just too much!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

No, just Voyager. Which, to be fair, probably accounts for 97% of this phrase in all Trek.

Oh my mistake only Voyager.

At least they didn't use "star trek" in the show

 

[Jack King]

I also stopped

 

[Prax]

I assumed this was some kind of writer's room gag, like using the number 47 everywhere, because there's simply dozens of different writers that inserted this phrase all the time on TNG and Voyager.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I think the video needs some kind of Grand Funk Railroad soundtrack.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I noticed #112 had Torres saying: "Some kind of randomly fluctuating modulation"

LOL -- what other kinds of RANDOM modulations could there be? It's random!

 

[Kor]

What prevented them from simply saying "it's a" instead of "it's some kind of" over and over again?

Kor

 

[JRTStarlight]

To be fair, "some kind" is far better and often more accurate than saying "it's definitely this or certainly that" based upon what little knowledge they have at the moment. But I would have hoped they could find other ways to say it too. I didn't watch it all, but skipped around to see, and it's pretty much that all the way through, except the note at the end by the guy who put in the labor to make it.

Unfortunately, it's most annoying when you get it all at once like that. But one can do that with other things, too.

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[Prax]

To be fair, "some kind" is far better and often more accurate than saying "it's definitely this or certainly that" based upon what little knowledge they have at the moment. But I would have hoped they could find other ways to say it too. I didn't watch it all, but skipped around to see, and it's pretty much that all the way through, except the note at the end by the guy who put in the labor to make it.

Unfortunately, it's most annoying when you get it all at once like that. But one can do that with other things, too.

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That's hilarious how they threw Tuvok in the middle. I just knew how the video was going to end, and I ended up being right.

We should have some kind of brainstorm and come with alternative phrases.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Has "Star Trek" been used in any series as a phrase?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Has "Star Trek" been used in any series as a phrase?

Only by Zefram Cochrane in the movie First Contact.

 

[JRTStarlight]

Right after watching that video, I happened to look at Elaan of Troyius where Scotty caught the guard with "some sort of transmitter" and McCoy speaks of "a sort of biochemical substance." Has anyone done a search on all the Trek series to know Voyager is so much more guilty of this than any other?
Some kind
Some sort
Some form
Some type

were there others?

What else could be used?

Some variety?
Some class?
Some category?
Some breed?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Only by Zefram Cochrane in the movie First Contact.

Admittedly it was funny when he did it, the one time.... After a 2nd or 3rd viewing the joke kind of sucks.