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There's coffee in that nebula.
— Star Trek: Voyager • 1995
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A captain's reason for risking the ship is also a caffeine joke, which is exactly why Janeway landed as a more human commander than her predecessors. The line has outlived the episode: an astronaut tweeted it from the space station in 2015, a nod from the real frontier to the fictional one.
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In context
Spoilers for Star Trek: VoyagerShow the scene
In "The Cloud" (Star Trek: Voyager, first season, 1995), Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant and rationing replicator power. Janeway has been cut off from her coffee, and Neelix's substitute looks more like tar. After she escapes his mess-hall offering, Chakotay reports on the bridge that a nebula rich in omicron particles could top up the ship's reserves. Janeway orders a new course, joking that there is coffee in that nebula. Inside, shields and reserves begin to fail. In 2015 an astronaut on the International Space Station tweeted the line.
Sources (2)
- Memory Alpha: The CloudSummary, Act One; Memorable quotesReference checked
- Wikipedia: The Cloud (Star Trek: Voyager)lead; PlotReference checked
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