Star Trek and TRON. I think the virtual representation would make for a great Holodeck program.
Star Trek and TRON. I think the virtual representation would make for a great Holodeck program.
You know I'd like to see that haha. Or maybe the world like in Tron is also what it's like inside computers in TNG haha. That would be a hoot.
TNG meets Buckaroo Banzai and the gang.
I can see that. Buckaroo thinks he's going through the side of a mountain and ends up in Engineering. Before they can send him back they have to repair the damage his truck did to the table, and figure out how to get the vehicle out of Engineering.
TNG meets Buckaroo Banzai and the gang.
Oh yes that would be so much fun, only the truck lodged itself partially inside the warp reactor....
Dr. Who and Cold Case. Lily and the Doctor team up to solve cold cases using the Tardis.
A grand uncle of mine allegedly disappeared as a kid in 19th century Philadlphia, but I don't know the details. But the most famous and coldest mystery case in Philadelphia is probably the kidnapping of Charley Ross July I, 1874, the first kidnapping for ransom in the USA..
I still like the idea of Dr. Who and Cold Case
... many western TV shows and movies like: Have Gun Will Travel (1957-1963), Bonanza (1959-1973), Maverick (1957-1962), Gunsmoke (1955-1975), The Rifleman (1958-1963), Rawhide (1959-1966),...
...And in my posts # 41 and 49 above I discuss a group of linked western TV shows that could be called the Maverick Universe or the Brady Hawkes Universe, a group that includes Have Gun Will Travel (1957-1963), Maverick (1957-1962), and The Rifleman (1958-1963) among others. So every TV show in that group should be part of the Star Trek novel universe.
So both Gunsmoke (1955-1975), and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-1961) would be part of the history of the US west in the universe of Star Trek novels. And in one series Matt Dillon is the law in Dodge City, Kansas in the old West and in the other Wyatt Earp is the law there. It is logical to assume that the two shows happen in the same time but in alternate universes, but if they are both part of the group of Star Trek linked westerns they would have to happen in the same universe but at different times. I would guess that The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-1961) would date Wyatt Earp's time in Dodge City fairly accurately, to about 1876-1879. So the 20 seasons and unspecified number of years of Gunsmoke (1955-1975) would have to happen either before about 1876 or else after about 1879.
Since most westerns shows have occasional episodes involving Indians, the history of Indians and Indian wars in any Star Trek novels that mention them should fit in with the plots of the various westerns linked with Star Trek instead of with real history where they differ. Writers of Star Trek novels thinking of mentioning events in American Indian history should be very, very glad that Barbara Hambly didn't mention shows like The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954-1959), Brave Eagle (1955-1956), Broken Arrow (1956-1960), Boots and Saddles (1957-1958), Mackenzie's Raiders (1958-1959), Branded (1965-1966), F Troop (1965-1967), Custer (1967), or Hondo (1967) that had a lot of Indian stories.
There were 5 TV movie sequels to Gunsmoke (1955-1975). Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (18 March 1990) - a title which no doubt caused Apache viewers to ask "What are we, chopped liver?" - had Matt Dillon find out the daughter he never knew he had was kidnapped by Apaches. Since the daughter Beth was portrayed by Amy Stoch (born December 13, 1958) who was 31, years, 3 months, and 5 days old on 18 March 1990, it seems logical to guess that Beth was probably about 20 to 30 years old in the movie. Beth's mother is Mike Yardner, who Matt met in the episode "Matt's Love Story" 24 September 1973, which was 16 years, 5 months, and 22 days before Gunsmoke: The Last Apache.
Thus the fictional dates of "Matt's Love Story" and Gunsmoke: The Last Apache should be about 15 to 30 years apart. The Apache conflict in Gunsmoke: The Last Apache should happen about 1886 in real history, making "Matt's Love Story" happen about 1856 to 1871 and most episodes earlier. Or if Matt Dillion comes to Dodge City after Wyatt Earp leaves, in about 1879-1885, "Matt's Love Story" could happen 1 to 20 years later about 1880-1905, and Gunsmoke: The Last Apache 15 to 30 years after that could happen about 1896-1935.
This review of Gunsmoke: The Last Apache says Beth is 21 years old.
http://ew.com/article/1990/03/16/gunsmoke-last-apache/
That makes it about 21.75 to 22.75 years after "Matt's Love Story". Counting back from 1886 it puts "Matt's Love Story" in 1863-1865, or counting forward from "Matt's Love Story" in 1880-1905 it puts Gunsmoke: The Last Apache in 1901-1927.
Of course it is possible that date evidence in Gunsmoke (1955-1975) and in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-1961) will prove they have overlapping dates. Then a theory that Dillon and Earp somehow shared the job of marshal, or a theory that they were marshals in 2 different places named Dodge City, or something, would be necessary.
So this brief discussion should give writers of Star Trek novels some idea of the problems and benefits of considering all the shows referenced by Barbara Hambly's Star Trek novel Ishmael (1985) to be canon in their own work.
To protect settlers traveling to the American west the army set up camps and forts along the favored routes. In Kansas in 1851 on the Santa Fe Trail a Colonel I. Dodge established Fort Dodge which lasted a short time. In 1864, General Grenville M. Dodge established a large fort in the same area on the north bank of the Arkansas River. The site was selected by Col. James Hobart Ford for whom the county was later named, and the fort was named Fort Dodge in the General's honor. "Fort Dodge was one of the most important forts on the Western frontier."[6] Commanders at the fort included George Custer and Col. William H. Lewis. In July 1872, Richard Irving Dodge was in command at Fort Dodge and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway needed a station on the Arkansas River. A site was selected five miles west of the fort and a town company organized by Dodge and his officers, R.M. Wright was elected president, and the quartermaster, Major E. B. Kirk, was secretary and treasurer. The town was named Dodge City after Fort Dodge Fort Dodge (US Army Post). Dodge City later became famous for its wildness, its Boot Hill cemetery, and gunslinging lawmen like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson.
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