I had a feeling I wasn’t getting it quite right…
In the alternate version of yesterday’s strip, Linton’s response to being told there is no third planet is “You think I don’t know that?!” And of course, in the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine, Commodore Decker’s line upon being told the third planet he beamed his crew down to isn’t there, his response is “Don’t you think I know that?!”
Oh well… I did say it was “Commodore Decker-style,” not an exact quote. 
And in completely unrelated news, the groundhog didn’t see his shadow today.
