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You're thinking Star Trek...

This is the more-or-less accurate transcript of a conversation I participated in last week.

A: "So my sister started shooting smack again. Dude, she's like six months pregnant."

B: "That's bad, man."

A: "Dude, she shouldn't be having that kid, man. I just wanna cut that baby out of there..."

B: "Man, don't talk like that. That shit is wrong even to joke about. That's fucked up, man."

A: "But, can't they, like, transfer the baby to another mother or whatever? In-vitro?"

B: "Man, you can't do a womb-to-womb transfer. I mean, you can do like fertilized eggs in a different mother, but you're thinking STAR TREK, man."

A: "Oh, shit, yeah, like that time when Kira had to carry Keiko's baby to term, cos she was just going to do it for like a little bit but then she couldn't give the baby back."

B: "Right."

C: "Well, it gave the producers a good way to write Nana Visitor's pregnancy into the show."

A: "Haw, dude's into Star Trek."