Sci-fi swear words?

[tkdguy]

I've been wondering about how cussing was handled in various science fiction shows. They usually just substitute nonsense words instead of the usual profanity. Some of the ones I've heard were:

Smeg (Red Dwarf): The s-word; including things like "smeg head."
Frell (Farscape): Seems to be a catch-all phrase, since I've heard it susbstituted for both the f-word and the s-word.
Frack (Battlestar Galactica): The f-word, definitely.

Any others?

[BigJackBrass]

Farscape did manage a certain sincerity with its swearing, at least, despite the obvious "made-upness" of the terms. Maybe because they swore so frelling much in that show.

Fans of Red Dwarf have long been amused by a certain brand of refrigerator, by the way: http://www.smeg.it/international/col...sp?CollName=CC

I'll have to have a think about other sci-fi swearing. Nothing else is coming to mind right now.

EDIT: Didn't Mork have a particular swear word he used? "Shazbat" (sp?) or similar?

[Zeropoint]

Farscape also had "yotz", which seemed to be equivalent to the s-word.

[keithcurtis]

"Oh, Grot!" from Quark (You must be at least 30 to remember this)
"Felgercarb" from the original Battlestar Galactica
"Shazbot" was indeed from Mork and Mindy
"Droog", "Ultra-V" from Clockwork Orange (Not really swear words, I guess)
"Tanj!" From Known Space
"Swut, "Foonting Turlingdrome", "jujuflop", from Hitchhikers Guide. And the very worst of the lot:


"Belgium"


Keith "Washing my mouth out with space soap" Curtis

[DrFaust]

Also Larry Niven's "tanj it."

EDIT: Aw, scooped.

[GothKidSamurai]

Firefly had pseudo-profanity all over the place.

Goram - GD
Rut - used in place of the eff word

And more that I can't remember off hand. Curse loaning my DVDs out.

[AliceTheOwl]

And, of course, the long strings of profanity in Mandarin Chinese in Firefly.

Though apparently, most were not, specifically, profanity or words that would've been bleeped. Most were long strings of unpleasantries.

In one of the Firefly panels at Dragons*con, every time people asked Ron Glass a question he couldn't answer for whatever reason, his reply was, "I don't know the Chinese for it."

[keithcurtis]

At first I thought Goram was Chinese. A Google search shows it is probably coined for the show. The derivation should be self-evident.
Rut however is an actual euphemism for intercourse.

Keith "Rut! Rut! Rut! ha! uncensored!" Curtis

[GothKidSamurai]

Yeah, I know that rut is an actual term for intercourse. But you don't normally here people say "rutting engine" or whatever.

[Gawain]

I think that Red Dwarf's "smeg" is a shortened form of the word "smegma" which would make a fine swear-word as is.

[SCUBA Hero]

""Tanj!" From Known Space

T here
A in't
N o
J ustice!

And from Heinlein,

T here
A in't
N o
S uch
T hing
A s
A
F ree
L unch

[Nyrath]

Wikipedia is your friend....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...al_curse_words

[Major Tom]

Let's see... Judge Dredd (the movie) had "Holy drok!" as a curse phrase.


Major Tom

[Oruncrest]

T here
A in't
N o
J ustice!

And from Heinlein,

T here
A in't
N o
S uch
T hing
A s
A
F ree
L unch

Well, if we're gonna use acrostics, we might as well add Bend Over! Here It Comes Again! (or BOHICA, for short) From Negation

[McCoy]

Lilo and Stitch count? Gantu keeps saying something like "Blitznak!"