The Nuclear Wessels?

A clip from the fourth Star Trek movie. This is the sequence where Chekov asks for directions to "Nuclear Wessels". It was filmed with real passers-by.

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Comedy

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• nuclear
• wessels
• vessels
• weasel
• wesel
• star
• trek
• voyage
• home
• chekov
• uhura
• whales
• candid
• camera

[ShireBaggins123]

And the policeman is just like "...What do I do?"

[LinleyTheBestMan]

"That's... what I said, in Alameda."

Just the way he says that is SO funny XD

[klein77]

umm, Chekov......1980s......Cold War......Soviet Union......ix nay on the uclearnay esselsway!

[pardusian141]

@ShireBaggins123 "They must be really bad spies....." then he thinks, "...What do I do?"

[JustPhilNY]

4 people think it's across the bay. In Alameda.

[tmdkone]

I wish he would have said "nucular wessels." But... it's still funny anyway.

[Pentarax]

Because during the latter end of the cold war, a russian guy asking about the location of nuclear wessels is NOT suspicious in any way.

[quizzisation]

In the new movie--

Chekov: Ensign authorization code wictor wictor two.

lol it's been 20 years, and he still couldn't get the V sound right.

(technically it's not 20 years because of time travel but whatever)

[Sismiques]

@Supermassively

The whole w, v, and u confusion goes back to when a v ment a u in Latin, and somehow it got changed over time.

That is why Russians use Evgeni instead of Eugene.

[Supermassively]

@Sismiques That makes no sense. Russians have a "V" sound already... you'd think they'd just pronounce the letter as they know it.

[Sismiques]

@Supermassively

Sometimes they mistake v for w, becuse they are unfamiliar with the word, but it isn't as often as the Chekov charecter is portrayed.

[tylerjg]

@aluisious haha, good point