Beam me up, Scotty

read any of the Italian books or comic books or play any of the video games or any of that crap, everybody knows it to a degree.

Everybody knows Beat Me Up Scotty.

Everybody knows Live Long and Prosper.

Everybody knows the idea of a warp engine, a transporter room, that sort of thing.

read any of the Italian books or comic books or play any of the video games or any of that crap, everybody knows it to a degree.

Everybody knows Beat Me Up Scotty.

Everybody knows Live Long and Prosper.

Everybody knows the idea of a warp engine, a transporter room, that sort of thing.

And I pronounce here today an acclaim that Whitewater has now entered The final frontier.

I yield back the balance of this and beam me up, Mr.

Speaker.

That was Captain James Traficant 30 years ago, March 13th, 1996, and 30 years after Star Trek first aired.

Many other members of the House and even the Senate have said in their floor speeches, be me up, just like James Traficant, just like Captain Kirk.

As we celebrate 60 years of Star Trek, the first episode aired on September 8th, 1966, it's time for a congressional tribute to the legendary NBC TV show.

Which members of Congress other than James Traficant have said, beam me up? Why did they want to be beamed up? And what was James Traficant's own reason for ending a floor speech by pleading, beam me up? Find out in this episode of Extreme Wortman, as this podcast boldly goes where no podcast has gone before.

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So sure, this is fun for them, but it has to be fun for us.

And again, I understand why this young audience, that they think they've been taking a piss at Star Trek ever since they saw the first memes of Kirk kissing a green girl or – You know, Beam Me Up Scotty, Live Long and Prosper, all that shit.

And they're like, no, that's what Star Trek is.

And it's like, no, I'm sorry.

Yeah.

And it had a voice bubble that said, "Beam me up, Scotty"?

Yeah, yeah.

And then it would say it would be attributed by-

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Star Trek, "Beam me up, Scotty" is probably, like, the most [laughs] most famous line-

Most common, yeah

... from Star Trek.