In my engineering school days, we had a skit night contest where students from six engineering faculties completed for the honor of being the best in theatrics.

I helped write our parody of Star Trek. The plot was the USS Enterprise taking on a planet-swallowing vagina. I remember making use of the phrases “To go where no man has gone before” and “black hole” to the audience’s great amusement. We had transporters, tricorders, and phasers. The whole skit was one gag right after the other. Even when our set caught fire, we turned that into an improve gag (great actors). My faculty won!

I can’t watch “Big Bang Theory”. We were so much better writers: we should have become sitcom writers rather than engineers.