Beam me up Scotty

It’s interesting how we accept phrases and lines from popular television shows and enrich our everyday language with them. This “beam me up Scotty” line came from the original “Star Trek” series I believe and was a request for the chief engineer on the starship Enterprise, Scotty, to activate their teleportation device and return the crew that was presumably on some planet back to the starship. The teleportation was a series of “beams” which could dematerialise the bodies they touched and reconstruct them with no ill effects at the other end of the “beam”. I suspect the modern study of quantum physics could be used to explain the potential better. For me though it prompts a memory of an apocryphal court case in New Zealand where when the judge asked the accused whether he had any last words before passing sentence the accused responded with “Beam me up Scotty I’m in a power of shit down here!”. The story doesn’t tell us whether this response had a favourable effect on the sentence he received.

P.S. The scribble above is my response in 10 minutes to a daily prompt generated by the Imaginative Storm . See my earlier post outlining the Imaginative Storm prompting method. Note the featured image is based on star-trek-7737321.jpg Image by Peace,love,happiness from Pixabay.