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

[Greg Cox]

Re: TOS: The Rings of Time Review Thread

^ In my defense, it should probably be noted that that was just a throwaway wisecrack on Shaun Christopher's part and wasn't to be taken too literally. It's not like we actually saw a 23rd-century orchestra performing the classical works of Lady Gaga!

But will Gaga still be popular a mere eight years from now? That struck me as plausible, but I guess we'll have to wait and see . . . .

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.

 

[Enterprise1701]

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?

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[hbquikcomjamesl]

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.

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?

 

[Christopher]

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.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

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

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

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:

Kirk: “Oh, the complete works of Jacqueline Susann, the novels of Harold Robbins…”
“Ah. The Giants.”

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?)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

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