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101 Things We've Learned From TrekLit

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1) If you push the Collective hard enough, eventually they will get PISSED.

2) Pluto is the tastiest of all planetary bodies.

3) If you ever served about the Enterprise-D, you will eventually serve with a half dozen others who did likewise.

4) To ensure a long lifespan, serve about the NCC-1701.

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5) Romulans are insatiable.

6) Zephram Cochrane came up with the Starfleet Delta emblem.

7) Diane Carey really, really likes sailing ships.

8) Kirk & Spock first met about 5 different times in 5 different ways.

9) Mirror-Spock is really into long-term planning.
 
13) When the Borg are in orbit, Therin Park is the worst place to hold a vigil on Andor.

14) Apostrophes are often quite alien.

15) Triexians closely resemble Edoans, but one of the races is less animated.
 
16) If you think someone is dead, then there's a pretty good chance they're spying on the Romulans.
17) Even the most simple reference can lead to a complex conspiracy.
 
18) No matter what it is, if it seems like it doesn't make sense, it actually DOES, Christopher just hasn't explained how yet.
 
19) Klingons spell words employing randomly inserted capital letters and punctuation marks.
 
(23) No, there will NOT be another Trekpedia, or another Chronology, OR another Starship Spotter...now quit asking!
 
(24) Captain Kirk's still alive!

(25) Captain Kirk has at least four fathers: Starfleet officer George Kirk, Starfleet redshirt Joseph Kirk, Colonel Benjamin Kirk and some racist politician guy.

(26) Kirk beat the Kobayashi Maru in at least three different ways.

(27) Kirk had at least three "first missions" on the Enterprise.

(26) The crew of the Enterprise somehow always unites in every single parrallel universe.

(28) Trip didn't die!
 
(28) All those contradictions are sometimes alternate universes, but other times those same contradictions get entire trilogies to explain them away.

(29) Data's still alive! (in one timeline, at least)

(30) Janeway's still alive! (in at least two timelines)
 
31) If you're worried about having traveled 12 years into your future, you'll soon have much greater problems to worry about. You also might want to keep an eye on your MACOs.
 
32) If you want your family line to continue into the 23rd-24th centuries, befriend an author.

33) If you want your family line to survive beyond the 23rd-24th centuries, become very good friends with an author.

34) The reports of baseball's demise in 2042 are greatly exaggerated.
 
35) Alien is CANON

36) Lilo and Stitch is CANON.

37) Moss is evil and out to get you.

38)

So
hravishran th'zoarhi
rhymes,
alliterates
notably.

39) Romulans have sore throats. Akkh!!

40) Gagh is not kosher.
 
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(42) Everyone in the Treklit universe has a very selective memory. Massive, life-altering events and threats to the Federation will often be forgotten in a matter of days.

(43) Dead people will occasionally live again without explaination.

(44) TOS characters will never die of old age, and will still be active well over 100 years later.

(45) The Mirror Universe is actually about 5 mirror universes.

(46) Voyager's EMH took the name "Doctor Zimmerman" for about a week into their mission, at which point everyone got amnesia and forgot.
 
(48) Doctor Who is CANON.

(49) Winnie the Pooh is CANON.

(50) Klingons will display most of their computer graphics, and light many of their ships in red, despite the colour being outside their visual spectrum.

(51) Spaceships 250 years into the future will be equipped with late-80's style BBS systems.

(52) The Soviet Union continued to exist until at least 1995.

(53) The way in which time travel works will not remain consistant from one day to the next.

(54) Elias Vaughn was present at every single event of import in Federation history.

(55) Everyone in the Star Trek universe has met everyone else at one time or another.
 
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