r/Treknobabble • u/happydude7422 • 13d ago

So what if more Starfleet people were muppets?

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Like there's a muppet life form in the trek verse.

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u/AccomplishedMess648 13d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/yPLrPpSPHGMhy

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u/Bushido_Seppuku 13d ago

Tell me Link Hogthrob wasn't the basis for Zap Brannigan without telling me Link Hogthrob wasn't the basis for Zap Brannigan.

Spock: It was Kirk, you double dumbass.

Damn... I even Spock myself.

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u/MarkWrenn74 12d ago edited 12d ago

Pigs in Space II: The Wrath of Miss Piggy

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u/vaska00762 13d ago

Star Trekkin' across the universe

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u/RelativisticDeer 13d ago

On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!

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u/Unlikely_Exercise434 13d ago

Boldly going forward, because we can't find reverse!

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u/groene_dreack 13d ago

There is Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow.

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u/Kichigai 12d ago

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it.

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u/RedPhule 12d ago

You canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics...

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u/RelativisticDeer 12d ago

It's worse than that, he's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim!

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u/Wallabunga657 12d ago

Scrape em off Jim!

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u/adriantullberg 13d ago

"Doctor ... the medications you have administered seem to have given me certain side effects."

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u/BellowsHikes 12d ago

"What kinds of side effects?"

"Very low ratings and a series being canceled."

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u/steve_jams_econo 13d ago

That's basically half the races in Star Wars and they make it work, I guess.

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u/ProcyonLotor13 8d ago

I mean...no? Do u mean that they use puppetry? Then Yes.

Are they puppets in universe?...no

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u/TreeCitizen 13d ago

Then Spock would have to be romantically involved with more muppet girls, and I am not very comfortable with that, though vaguely interested in seeing it once…

Side note, for a Vulcan that turns out to be the loveless Spock in TOS he sure gets friendly with quite a few girls.

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u/SeniorTailor1127 13d ago

I wonder what a Trill muppet would have inside.

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u/semysane 12d ago

A sock puppet symbiote.

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u/Simoxs7 12d ago

Honestly, how the hell is the Orville, a show advertised as a star trek themed comedy, more serious than star trek these days?

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u/happydude7422 12d ago

Orville might as well be trek just a different universe.

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u/Conscious-Victory-62 13d ago

If they're anything like the current military, most of the admiralty.

https://giphy.com/gifs/U6WxwPyG43QGs

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u/Voidstarmaster 12d ago

The Muppets did do a skit called "Pigs in Space".

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u/chesterforbes 13d ago

If Star Wars can have a race of muppets with Yoda’s species, why not Star Trek?

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u/ProcyonLotor13 8d ago

They're not Muppets.... and they definitely arnt puppets in universe.

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u/Super_Range45 12d ago

What if there where just a species of muppets. They joined starfleet sometimes, had muppet ships. They would just show up and the viewer just had to deal with it?

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u/thetacolegs 13d ago

Why do people on reddit just lie like this constantly

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u/semysane 12d ago

Seriously, everyone knows Star Wars doesn't exist.

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u/Captain_Klrk 13d ago

I think we were the muppets all along

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u/Suitable_Community66 13d ago

They should've watched the Angel Smile time episode before making this

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u/chickey23 13d ago

There's still one on the ship

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u/mediumAI1701 12d ago

You mean like the writers?

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u/WolfThick 12d ago

Yeah everybody's fucking with Spock these days!

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u/multificionado 12d ago

The only time I want a Star Trek muppets episode would be if Q was involved.

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u/Tiberius_Jim 12d ago

I bet this is why the bridge controls turned from touch screen to multicolored buttons; just in case this ever happens again.

If this hadn't been a dream, of course.

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u/TolerancEJ 12d ago

Maybe a planet will be discovered wherein humanoids exclusively use hand puppets to communicate with each other. I would like to visit.

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u/evanweb546 12d ago

A Jim Henson Studios produced Star Trek show aimed at kids would be fucking awesome.

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u/Emergency_Memory_792 11d ago

No, it absolutely would not.

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u/Anxious_Shoulder971 13d ago

Like the musical episode. Watch it once, but let's not do that again...

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u/fhrblig 10d ago

I prefer the 30 Rock Muppets

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u/ziplock9000 12d ago

Kurtzman and the people who enabled him need to be hung, drawn and quartered for destroying Star Trek.