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   wndrwrthg said, 11 months ago

   The captian has a…

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   ejcapulet said, 11 months ago

   The captain has a regular human chick, therefore the captain needs a room with a locking door.

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   Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

   Gotta like those “leggy, full-lipped chick[s].”

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   Doctor Toon said, 11 months ago

   I would send the crew on an away mission - far away.

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   heligmyer said, 11 months ago

   Time for Spock and Sulu to go off on a landing party.

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   txmystic said, 11 months ago

   Strange: The first time I saw this, the captain had a “tomato”. Creative editing in the ol’ hometown paper, I guess, but is “tomato” more PC than “leggy, full-lipped chick”?

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   eriknielsen said, 11 months ago

   It was “tomato” when it was printed in the book too. Is tomato the original or is chick? Personally, I think tomato is funnier just because it’s an inherently more humorous word, but I’d really like to know which was the original.

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   caspencer said, 11 months ago

   Oh, good, I thought it was just me. I too remember this as being ‘tomato’, and I agree that word is much funnier than ‘chick’.

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   tobybartels said, 11 months ago

   Whatever's in the book (Loose Tails) is the original (well, according to the book).

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    ejcapulet said, 11 months ago

    I don’t think ‘chick’ is any more PC than ‘tomato’ - I’ve been called a chick, but I’d love to be called a tomato sometime!

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    bloomfan said, 11 months ago

    I like reading this strips on gocomics not only to catch the ones that didn’t make the books (that I no longer remember at all!) but to try to spot the ones that are different. (This one was pretty obvious!) What I read was that Breathed changed some of the wording for the books when he didn’t like what he’d originally written. Pulling a George Lucas, you could say. This is one case where I think the change (to “tomato”) is better, though. More pithy.