Loading... Please wait...“Beam me up, Scotty” has become the universal phrase for “I am done with this situation and would like to be literally anywhere else.” Stuck in a three-hour meeting that could have been an email? Beam me up, Scotty. Standing in line behind someone arguing with a self-checkout machine? Beam me up, Scotty. The funny part is that it makes teleportation sound like a customer service request: no panic, no urgency, just a weary space traveler politely asking his coworker to activate the giant molecular disassembler. Somewhere on the starship, Scotty is probably rolling his eyes and muttering, “Aye, captain, but have you tried turning the planet off and on again first?”