Talk:Chicken and the Egg

Merge suggestion
Quoting from the episode itself, using online transcript:


 * PICARD: Will you leave me alone? Damn it, I'm not stupid. Will, the tachyon pulses, they were used in the same spot in three different time periods. Don't you see? When the tachyon pulse used. I mean, I mean when the Pasteur used the tachyon pulse, then, then, we I mean everything started, Will. We set everything in motion. It's like the chicken and the egg, Will, the chicken and the egg! We think it started in the past but it didn't. It started right here, in the future. That's why it's getting larger in the past.
 * DATA: I think I know what the Captain's talking about. If I'm not mistaken, he's describing a paradox.

Picard is not describing some specific, well-known paradox with the official title "Chicken and the Egg" - he is just describing a generally paradoxical situation and uses the idiom "chicken/egg" to describe it. As such, this article should be merged with Idiom and does not need to exist separately. That would also solve the discrepancy between this title and the one on Wikipedia ("and" vs. "or"), and remove the categorization as some official paradox (which it isn't). -- Cid Highwind 16:21, February 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * Support.--31dot 16:23, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Support, though there should still be some sort of link to this information from paradox. - 19:19, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Support: Even though I created this article, I was unaware of the Idiom page at the time, and I heard Picard mention this when I watched recently so I created it. But I agree, it would be better suited on that page with a redirect. --  TrekFan Open a channel 06:32, February 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. If we gave a page to every common human expression used in Star Trek, we would have no time left to fight about the dictates of Vulcan poetics. -Angry Future Romulan