Have you ever given up on a Trek series? If so, what was the last straw for you?

[Greg Cox]

BSG using frak worked surprisingly well.

I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I'm reminded of a story in "The Making of George A. Romero's 'Day of the Dead'", where the producers of the movie saw a rough assembly of the picture and were surprised by the amount of swearing in it and they asked George if he could cut some of it out, and George response was, "If I cut out the swearing the movie would only be five minutes long."
So, the producers acquiesced and allowed the swearing to stay in.

 

[Farscape One]

I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.

I've still got my "FRELL ME DEAD" buttons.

 

[1001001]

I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.

“Gorram” from Firefly was decent too.

Swearing in Trek is fine with me.

Imagine if we had gotten the Tarantino movie!?

 

[Greg Cox]

I've still got my "FRELL ME DEAD" buttons.

"Merry frelling Christmas!"

 

[CorporalCaptain]

And this is where I point out that the very first Star Trek that ever aired involved a Salt Vampire who lured its victims by posing as an attractive member of the opposite sex.

Which was clearly meant to be a sexy, provocative notion -- at least by the standards of 1960s sci-fi shows.

May as well add that the term man-trap in slang means literally an extremely seductive woman. (The quotation on the Wiktionary page from Our American Cousin (1858) can be found on Project Gutenberg.) I've always suspected a double meaning in the episode's title.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I remain crushed that "frell" (from Farscape) never caught on the way "frak" did.

"Frell" sounds way too soft to be fake profanity, IMO. "Frak" has the right cadence with that hard "K" sound you spit out in a moment of frustration.

The same way "slag" was a good fake slur on the Alien Nation series. It had the right sort of ugly sound for a slur.

 

[Firebird]

The same way "slag" was a good fake slur on the Alien Nation series. It had the right sort of ugly sound for a slur.

I haven't seen Alien Nation, so I don't know the context in which they used it there, but the term "slag" isn't a fake slur. In Britain, it's synonymous with "slut."

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I haven't seen Alien Nation, so I don't know the context in which they used it there, but the term "slag" isn't a fake slur. In Britain, it's synonymous with "slut."

"Slag" was the human slur for the Newcomers, the alien race in the show.

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[fireproof78]

I haven't seen Alien Nation, so I don't know the context in which they used it there, but the term "slag" isn't a fake slur. In Britain, it's synonymous with "slut."

Weird. Transformers: Beast Wars used it.