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What did Chekhov say?

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Anduril

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When he beamed Kirk and Sulu while they were falling. I've tried searching but I haven't gotten any satisfactory results.
 
I can't remember what the word is offhand, but this has come up before and it turned out it's a Russian word with no exact translation.
 
When he beamed Kirk and Sulu while they were falling. I've tried searching but I haven't gotten any satisfactory results.
Chekov's exclamation of "Ё моё!" was ad-libbed by Yelchin. It doesn't have an exact English translation, but I've read that it's an extremely versatile (if not necessarily polite) expression which falls somewhere in the general neighborhood of "Holy shit," "Fuck, yeah," "Ha, I win" or "Yippy-ki-yay, motherf***er!"
 
When he beamed Kirk and Sulu while they were falling. I've tried searching but I haven't gotten any satisfactory results.
Chekov's exclamation of "Ё моё!" was ad-libbed by Yelchin. It doesn't have an exact English translation, but I've read that it's an extremely versatile (if not necessarily polite) expression which falls somewhere in the general neighborhood of "Holy shit," "Fuck, yeah," "Ha, I win" or "Yippy-ki-yay, motherf***er!"

That's around what J.J. or Damon was saying on the commentary. They said that Anton had wanted to have an exclamation and that was what he said and afterward when J.J. asked he said it was along those lines.
 
If you listen carefully, Chekov exclaims "Ya mayor!". The Russian word Ya means "I", and mayor means exactly that, "Mayor", since the Russian language has no cyrillic word for mayor. Colloquially it can be interpreted as "I'm the man!" or "I'm the boss!" I'm the man is pronounced YA — muzhchina, which Anton might have thought sounded a little confusing to English speakers, causing us to wonder how or what machines were involved.
 
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