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1-> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' But they run into the most dangerous thing in any sci-fi movie: ''space stuff!'' Yeah, ya know, space stuff. Nobody knows what it is, but as long as you say some TechnoBabble with the word "electromagnetic" thrown in, it suddenly can do anything!
2-> '''Officer:''' Take initial radiation, gamma ray readings... it's an electromagnetic storm.
3-> '''Nostalgia Critic:''' Bingo! Now a city of apes can happen.
4-->-- ''WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic'', "Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001"
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6->'''Quark:''' What do you make of that?
7->'''[[TheSpock Ficus]]:''' A most fascinating phenomenon, but one which leaves the mind facing a myriad of possibilities, alternatives and conclusions that are at best strictly hypothetical with no sound basis in fact.
8->'''Quark:''' In other words, you don't know.
9->'''Ficus:''' That's what I said.
10-->-- ''Series/{{Quark}}''
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12->'''Makoto:''' We have visual of the target.
13->'''Misato:''' Great! What can you tell me?
14->'''Makoto:''' The target appears to be...[[SinisterGeometry a thing]].
15->'''Misato:''' What the hell do you mean, "a thing"?
16->'''Makoto:''' It's a...a...thing?
17->'''Misato:''' Can none of you three do ''anything'' useful around here? Maya!
18->'''Maya:''' ''(talking very fast)'' Yes! The object is cruising at a steady pace towards Central Dogma. Its constant phase gives it a reflective quality that makes it appear like a massive...thing.
19-->-- ''WebVideo/EvAbridged 3.0 Rei is (not) Pleased''
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21->'''Kirk''': Bones, there's a thing out there. \
22'''[=McCoy=]''': Why is anything we don't understand always called a ''[[ThatMysteriousThing thing]]''!?
23-->-- ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''
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25->'''Ensign Kim:''' Captain, there's something out there.
26->'''Captain Janeway:''' I need a better description than that, Mister Kim!
27->'''Ensign Kim:''' I don't know. I'm reading...I'm not sure what I'm reading!
28-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Caretaker"
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30->"I finished my study of the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie spatial distortions]] coming from the [[OurWormholesAreDifferent singularity]]. I can give you a [[TechnoBabble long, boring analysis]]. Suffice it to say, I don't know what's going on."
31-->-- '''Captain Janeway''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Parallax"
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33->"Captain, we have encountered an unusual phenomenon...phenomenon...phenomenon... [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand pheeenooomeeeennnonnnnn....]]"
34-->-- Tuvok reporting this week's NegativeSpaceWedgie in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Twisted"
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36->'''Counselor Tryhard:''' ''(regarding a shapeshifting alien)'' I've never seen anything like it!
37->'''Commander Piker:''' That's 'cause [[Series/DeepSpaceNine Deep Sev Nine]] got all the morphing effects.
38-->-- ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'' (2002)

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