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.

[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]

"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

[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

[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!"

[TheQuestionMan]

FireFly Chinese Quotes and Translations
http://www.browncoats.com/index.php?...=3e546fb171d22

That's Shiny completely da bien hua.

QM

[Rapier]

Lilo and Stitch count?

Let us sincerely hope not.

[HeroPink!]

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

Uh-uh.
Bend
Over
And
Spread
Them,
Here
It
Comes
Again,
Right
Up
The
A--

BOASTHICARUTA


Not swearing 'zactly, but "mucker" from Stand...
Stand...
Oh no I can't remember! I feel so BLONDE!


And "simpleton" is used interestingly in A Canticle for Liebowitz.

[Basil]

Not swearing 'zactly, but "mucker" from Stand...
Stand...
Oh no I can't remember! I feel so BLONDE!

Stand On Zanzibar.

Which also gives us "slotting bleeder."

"Om take it!" is in one of the Diskworld books; I forget which.

[gewing]

"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

My favorite is still "srizonified" (been 15 years, spelling uncertain) from Doc Smith's "masters of the vortex" more or less "descended from a thousand generations of dwellers in unflowering muck." I suspect muck was a polite translation.

Sthondat from Man Kzin iirc, "willing Slave" was good too.