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Re:Facial recognition service becomes a weapon against Russi... by biot on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:29PM (#11582512)
From one obscurist to another, it's mostly water.
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Re:Facial recognition service becomes a weapon against Russi... by kragen on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @03:55PM (#11583959)
It's not even obscure: the reference has 67 upvotes on UrbanDictionary, and the page for the referenced episode has existed for 13 years and 363 edits on Memory Alpha, and for 11 years and 371 edits on Wikipedia.

There's a "liquid remix" video of the quote on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU

There's a white-people "jazz" song named after it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw

Josh Woodward has done another rock/pop song probably referencing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY...

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Re:Facial recognition service becomes a weapon against Russi... by biot on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:47PM (#11585846)
I don't see any evidence that those people are a sufficiently random sample of users vs. Trek nerds who explicitly search for the obscure reference. I'm sure I could find some obscure mathematical reference that 7000 math nerds discuss but is completely unknown by the remaining 99.9999% of the population.
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