Spoilers TOS: The Rings of Time by Greg Cox Review Thread

Revisiting this thread close to twelve years later, I see I have been vindicated. Lady Gaga was not forgotten by 2020, let alone by 2024.

 

But the real question is, will your name still be "Beyoncé" in the 2040s?

 

Alive and well and hawking a migraine treatment while playing a bizarrely decorated grand piano.

Then again, wasn't there a throwaway line in some ST novel that listed DEVO as classical music?

 

My Enemy, My Ally, IIRC. Either that or The Wounded Sky.

 

Checked on Google Books. It's the former. (from the anthology) https://www.google.ca/books/edition...q=DEVO++star+trek&pg=PT71&printsec=frontcover

 

Hmm. One of the most endearing qualities of TrekBBS is that the locals are geeky enough to answer a rhetorical question (of course, that was only semi-rhetorical).
I'm rather surprised that the DEVO reference even pre-dated STIV doing the same with literature:

And of course, that continues today, with all of DSC's references to "disco" (don't they know that disco is dead? And that it stank long before it was dead?)

 

Both cases may be an instance of a character mentioning their own particular favorite in the same breath as universally recognized classics.