Enough Already: Star Trek "Beam" Headlines

There Will Be Cliches, Part II:

Remember how much we hated the "There Will Be [Noun]" headlines back in early '08, along with the "No Country for Old [Noun]" variants?

Yeah, so, these days, it's Star Trek and "beaming" that's getting on our last nerve. If one more headline trumpets the sci-fi flick's "beaming up" of a boatload of cash this weekend, we're going to set our phasers to stun, or something else really bad.

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