In Jokes

Q at Large

In-Joke Inventory and Bad Joke Clarifications

That was just a test tribble, you moron! :-)

NCC-1588 : Katie's 9th grade history teacher was obsessed with his students knowing that the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588.

Jackson V : We hoped everyone would get this one, but neither of our editors picked up on it, so... The Jackson Five. Get it? Roman numerals?

"And then the llamas arrived." Aside from the fact that we both love llamas (they're so cuuuuuute!!!), this is what Katie writes whenever she gets writer's block. It fits into any scene. Well, maybe not, but it works here. >:-)

42: When we pick an arbitrary number, we usually choose 42. Why? Ever read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series?

We're writing in "Shatner-speak". Get...it?

Gingritch: Yes, we know we're misspelling Gingrich, but Katie can't spell it right, so we just left it wrong. Okay? Good. :-)

Xibble Gort Dip Dip XII : Not really an in-joke, but inspired by "Zizza Botta Wotta Wotta Boink Boink III" on the Garfield and Friends cartoon. :-)

Pretty much everyone on the Pegasus, and most of the extras, are named after famous people. Their last names, anyway. Perhaps thanks to some weird cosmic coincidence all their direct descendants are on the same ship?

Captain Sally Letterman ==> David Letterman
Commander Bob Lloyd Webber ==> composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Nigel Fillmore ==> Millard Fillmore
Lenny Gingritch ==> Newt Gingrich
Ensign Jacques ==> Katie's favorite author, Brian Jacques
Ensign Eddings ==> Kayleen's favorite author, David Eddings
Counselor V'Larek ==> Okay,so she's not named for anyone famous from Earth. Maybe from her own planet?
Dr. Fox ==> Also not really named after anyone famous. It could be Michael J. Fox, I guess, but we just like foxes. :-)

Spork: You know, those are those little half-spoon/half-fork things they give you at KFC.

Krusean Spatulites: We know a guy whose last name is Kruse, and spatulas are funny. Thus the name.

"had body parts stolen" : Originally we paired up Spock and Neelix based on this similarity, but that's about all it was. It turned out to be funny, so we kept them around a little while longer.

Ed Sullivan Theater : Where David Letterman tapes his show. And no, co-author Katie Sullivan is not related to Ed Sullivan. (To the best of my knowledge. *ahem* -- Katie)

Lutefisk : You might have to be Scandinavian to get this one. Lutefisk is this really smelly fish that's soaked in lye, and typically eaten at Christmas, like most people eat turkey at Thanksgiving. See? You may have actually learned something from our story! *gasp!!!*

Gul Dukat : He later ends up killing Jadzia Dax. The big poo-poo head. But then, you knew that already. Anyway, that's one of the very few later DS9 events we actually included in the story. Just because.

Odometer : The odometer (oh-DA-meh-tur) is the thing on your car that tells you how far you've travelled. Note the "odo" in the word. :-)

"Are you challenging me to a duel?" / "Yes, if you have the courage!" : These lines are from the TOS episode "The Squire of Gothos", which has Trelane in it. :-)

Lumberjack: Kayleen is obsessed with Monty Python. :-)

Tacky rooster-shaped tea pot: A really tacky gift someone Katie knows got for Christmas one year
One-legged elf: Katie has a Christmas tree ornament elf, but one of his legs fell off. You kinda had to be there.

You knew we'd have to do at least one of these jokes, right?

The gap in her teeth is a Letterman family trait. ;-)

You've seen that Bugs Bunny cartoon, haven't you? The one where there's that big fuzzy red monster with sneakers?

Okay, so maybe we have a small obsession with baldness in this fic...

Really! Try it sometime. We spend all summer testing this. Well, okay, not ALL summer, but...

Alnilam really is a star on Orion's Belt. We *gasp!* actually did some research!!!

We didn't think this one needed explanation, but one of our Canadian friends had never heard of Mentos, so...
Their commericals say you can do anything you want (including defying laws of traffic and common courtesy), as long as you show people you have a roll of Mentos. It's weird, but so are we.

Believe it or not, we really do know a guy named Benj Effinchuk. No kidding. And he's actually quite a bit like Benjuh is in the story. Scary, isn't it? ;-)

benjuh.jpg (2291 bytes) Here's what he'd look like if he really was a Spatulite. *ducks bricks*

'Cuz Chekov looks like one of the Monkees. Not really an in-joke, and true Trekkers/Trekkies got it, but we just like making footnotes. :-)

Finish the sentence any way you want to.

had intimate relations with farm animals
have poor personal hygeine
think roadkill is a delicasy
etc...

It's that "Squire of Gothos" episode again.

"Semaforo" is Spanish for "traffic light". It sounds cool, doesn't it?

Well, Japanese-American, I guess, but...whatever.

This one really is an in-joke. Not much of a joke, perhaps, but very "in". We had this history teacher who was always asking us, "Could you be more specific?" and driving us nuts. I think writing too many essays for him helped push us over the edge, but we were actually nuts long before he got his hands on our brains.

'Cuz Paramount is the studio where they make Star Trek. Murray is a stagehand. Or at least, in our little world he is. He doesn't exist, as far as we know... If some actual stagehand named Murray who works on Star Trek sees this, we apologize. :-)

Katie read somewhere that Patrick Stewart and William Shatner wore pantyhose underneath their uniforms when they rode horses in the "Generations" movie, to avoid getting saddle burn. More than you wanted to know, we realize...

Named after Michael Crawford, a British singer with the voice of an angel. *drool* Or perhaps an Angel of Music... Seen Phantom of the Opera? He was the original star. *dreamy sigh*
~~~Katie

Katie: My favorite line in the whole story! :-)

They never DID explain all that in the first movie, dangit! :-p

If you didn't get that joke, you're on the wrong website!

So maybe Picard would never act like that, but the way they all treated Wesley, you almost came to expect it... :-p I mean, why else keep Wes around?

Monkeys have much grosser butts. And usually more hair.

Don't ya just love the Shatner Fight Music^tm?

One of our editors threatened to contact the Humane Society about this...

These jokes are just soooooo easy to make...

Kayleen: I love that line!!!

The Klopman Diamond: A running gag on the Garfield & Friends cartoon.

Alien wearing sunglasses: A reference to Katie's as-yet-unpublished science fantasy novel. :-) [Shameless plug] Click here for more info! [/Shameless plug]

We just can't stop ourselves. Sorry.

Loopy on the junk: David Letterman reference.

Quote from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I can really see Q as Puck, come to think of it...
~~~Katie, English Major

There was much rejoicing: Another Monty Python ref.

Ponce deLeon was the guy who searched for the Fountain of Youth.

Scrooge McDuck ref.
<shameless plug>If you've only seen DuckTales, you haven't experienced the REAL Scrooge McDuck. Read the comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. </shameless plug> :-)
~~Katie