Was it worth it to ya? (aka Fire the Nuclear Wessels)

[Seraph]

Quoth AngloSaxonViking

NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT

Holy malonies, I love you for this.

Quoth Tama

Seeing the thread title made me go AWWW.

Chekov is so adorable.

He totally IS!!! /squees

[Aria]

LOL... the whole time, I was reading the title as "Fire the Nuclear Weasels" and I FINALLY realized it's missiles with a russian accent. And I only figured it out because I read a comment about Chekov. *facepalm*

[dragon_wings]

Quoth Aria

LOL... the whole time, I was reading the title as "Fire the Nuclear Weasels" and I FINALLY realized it's missiles with a russian accent. And I only figured it out because I read a comment about Chekov. *facepalm*

Don't worry. I did that too (except I watched the YouTube vid someone linked). Lol.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Quoth Aria

LOL... the whole time, I was reading the title as "Fire the Nuclear Weasels" and I FINALLY realized it's missiles with a russian accent. And I only figured it out because I read a comment about Chekov. *facepalm*

It's not "missiles" it's "vessels."

Nuclear vessels.

But to me, "vessel" will ALWAYS be heard or read with Chekov's accent. "Wessels" forever.

[Racket_Man]

Here is another one that I used to use in my siggy

"bitch, Bitch, BITCH. Don't be difficult. Try a little harder and be IMPOSSIBLE" a saying that my college roommate made up about 35 or so years ago.

I thought the line from Chekov was "We are trying to get to the nuclear Wessles at Alimidia" or something like that.

[PepperElf]

oh and speaking of Chekov ....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMaGnpVaSGQ

it's the entire medical scene though, but i always loved McCoy's "dark ages" comments anyway

[vikingchyk]

Quoth Jay 2K Winger

But to me, "vessel" will ALWAYS be heard or read with Chekov's accent. "Wessels" forever.

Me too. At the time the movie was released, a bunch of people from my office went to go see it together. We all busted out laughing at that scene, because we worked with someone whose last name was Wessel. He wasn't too put out being called 'Nuclear Wessel' for quite some time after that.

[vikingchyk]

Quoth Racket_Man

I thought the line from Chekov was "We are trying to get to the nuclear Wessles at Alimidia" or something like that.

Chekov: We're looking for the naval base in Al-a-mee-da - can you tell us where the nuclear wessels are?
Unhelpful: Oh, I don't know. I think it's across the Bay. In Alameda!
Chekov: That's what I said - Alameda, I know that.
Uhura: But where is Alameda?

Across the Bay, duh!

[Zoom]

Just so this doesn't devolve into Fratching, I won't mention the Horst Wessel Song.

Um, except to mention that I won't mention it.

[wolfie]

Quoth PepperElf

Hamster poop?

Yep, one of the hazards of firing "live ammunition".

As for the Chekov lines, "Captain, we have found a nuclear wessel, and she is the Enterprise."

I've heard that when Star Trek IV was shown in the Soviet Union (audio in the Original Russian, of course), the censors left in what was a throwaway line for North American audiences but had audiences rolling in the aisles behind the Iron Curtain "The bureaucratic mentality is the fundamental constant of the universe", and an extremely politically-charged line about the crew's arrival in the 20th century United States "Remember, you are entering a primitive and paranoid society".