Ever notice how often this phrase is uttered in TNG?
I try to incorporate it into my daily conversations. Especially with my boss.
I try to incorporate it into my daily conversations. Especially with my boss.
"With all due respect..."
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Twenty-three times. But Voyager used it twenty-four times, and the actual winner is Enterprise, which used it twenty-five times despite having three fewer seasons. DS9 used it twenty times, the TOS movies three times, TOS once, and TAS never.
Eleven times. Not that much, but more than any of the other series.
Two hundred and seventy-seven. Which considerably surpasses every other individual Trek series's uses of the phrase.
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"Don't you see?" is only used 56 times in DS9. I thought it was a lot more than that.
And only one 'harumph" though Odo did it all the time...
And only one 'harumph" though Odo did it all the time...
It doesn't.
Incidentally, how rude was it of McCoy to out Korax in front of everyone like that?
On a slightly different note. Was it in Next Generation where the liberal use of the number 47 started? Sometimes when I watch any of them now, I start seeing how many times 47 crops up.
Yes, apparently it was an in-joke started by TNG/VGR writer/producer Joe Menosky, based on a joke from the college he went to. Interestingly, J.J. Abrams has used the same joke in many of his productions, so when the new movies used it, it was the convergence of two separate paths for the gag.
Did he actually use that word?
Yes, he actually used that word. That was the late 60's. I'm surprised it was allowed by the networks.
That's because it literally means hermaphroditic, having both male and female sexual organs. Its use to refer to a human sexual behavior is more recent; it existed at the time, but wasn't in widespread use.
Yes, I get that. It was describing the tribble's dual gender. Not someone's orientation.
Then why are you surprised that the network allowed it? It was being used as a technical, biological term, so it was harmless. (Like how the censors allowed references to Hell as a place or the phrase "hell-for-leather" but only once, in "City on the Edge," permitted "hell" as a curse word, and grudgingly at that. Context matters.)
Well it sounds to me that if one "hell" was grudgingly permitted, there could have possibly been some worry that someone might take other words out of context.
From scanning Chrissie's Transcripts, I estimate that "with all due respect" was spoken about 21 times in TNG.
The point is that they did allow "Hell" on several occasions where it wasn't used as a profanity. Same with "damn" -- it was never used as a curse until the movies (the only time McCoy ever said "Damn it, Jim" was in TWOK), but we had "The evidence... was damning" in "Court Martial" and "I can't damn him for his loyalty" in "Journey to Babel." Censors know the difference between an acceptable usage and a problematical one (otherwise they'd never allow characters named Dick on the air).
