What is Star Trek Bingo?
I grew up watching reruns of the original series
Star Trek.
I loved it (and still do). Then a few years ago the
Sci-Fi channel
did a 30th anniversary special where they showed each episode in order with
commentaries by the actors. I couldn't watch them because of the time it was on (I was at work),
but my loving wife recorded each and every episode for me (even going so far as to edit the
commercials)! Well, as we began watching them together in the evenings, we couldn't help but
poke fun at all the cliché sayings, fake-looking props and bad music that kept recurring.
One day we decided to start writing them down, and soon the idea came to us: Let's make a game
of it! Soon Star Trek bingo was born and the fun ensued each evening as we sat down to watch
the adventures of the Enterprise crew unfold...
I want a gameboard!
So you want your own gameboard? You're in luck. Just click the button and print the resulting page.
The complete Star Trek Bingo cliché list
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A badly cast stunt double in a fight-scene
A main character gets captured
A planet made of rocks, scrub brush, and a twilight orange sky
A redshirt gets killed
Cheesy special effect
Chekov boasts of Russia
Close-up of beads of sweat on Kirk's forehead
Comic relif music plays
Encounter a race in which everyone dresses exactly alike
Encounter an alien species or planet that resembles earth
Encounter life - but not as we know it
Fight music plays
Kirk and McCoy make fun of Spock's emotionalism
Kirk breaks the prime-directive
Kirk does his little karate/judo chop
Kirk kisses a woman
Kirk talks a computer into suicide
Kirk uses a dramatic pause
Kirk's shirt gets ripped
Love music plays
Main character has a near death experience
McCoy and Spock argue
McCoy says "He's dead Jim"
McCoy says "I'm a doctor, not ..."
Mind Meld
Nurse Chapel shows an interest in Spock
Red Alert
Scotty says "I cannot change the laws of physics"
Set phasers on stun
Shot of control board shows buttons and lights with no words
Soft-light closeup on the beautiful guest-star actress
Someone fires a phaser at a rock, then warms his/her hands
Someone is sent to sickbay
Someone loses their phaser or communicator
Someone makes a personal log entry
Someone makes a sexist remark
Something/one takes control of the Enterprise
Spock expresses emotion and explains it as a logical response
Spock gives an exact estimate
Spock gives the Vulcan nerve pinch
Spock looks into his scanner on the bridge
Spock raises his eyebrow
Spock says "Fascinating"
Spock says "Illogical"
Spock says "Logical"
Styrofoam rocks on the planet
Technobabble
The Enterprise or Scotty breaks the laws of physics
The Enterprise orbits a mono-colored planet
The Enterprise travels through time
The bridge lurches in an attack
Transporter malfunction
Uhura says "Hailing frequencies"
Warp drive is used
We see "the hill"
You uncover a plothole
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