Your Weird Trek Assumptions

[FredH]

I had a similar problem with Han Solo between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. Like, I knew the credits said he was still Harrison Ford, but he looked so different to me.

A funny thing in a related vein: I had an opposite situation regarding Mark Hamill. At some point between those two films, he was involved in a car accident, and had some surgery. Over time, there was exaggerated reporting that claimed they’d had to completely rebuild his face, etc; so when The Empire Strikes Back came out, there were people who talked about completely different he looked.

I never saw it in the slightest, and still don’t.

 

[The Wormhole]

I remember even before I started watching Star Trek, I had a die-cast metal toy of the Enterprise D. Whenever I played with it, I always had it oriented upside down, mostly because that made sense to me. When I did learn the ship's proper orientation (also before I started watching the show) I thought it looked better upside down and continued to play with it like that.

 

[publiusr]

I remember even before I started watching Star Trek, I had a die-cast metal toy of the Enterprise D. Whenever I played with it, I always had it oriented upside down, mostly because that made sense to me.

HAIL ZEON

https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Musai-class

As a kid, I already thought that as you approached the Neg-E barrier it would look like a foreshortened strip no matter the approach.

What got in my little head--was what that barrier was meant to keep *out*

 

[Cox of Seagulls]

Child me could not compute that TMP Kirk and TOS Kirk were played by the same actor. It was the toupee.

Similarly, I thought that Sisko was played by a different actor after he shaved his head. He looks so different!

 

[Greg Cox]

I thought the "Seven" in the title "The Galieo Seven" referred to the number of the shuttlecraft, not the seven people aboard.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I thought the "Seven" in the title "The Galieo Seven" referred to the number of the shuttlecraft, not the seven people aboard.

Perhaps both, but undeniably the latter. Only two of them were magnificent....one and a half if you take into account Spock's illogical naivete.

 

[drt]

I thought the "Seven" in the title "The Galieo Seven" referred to the number of the shuttlecraft, not the seven people aboard.

Ha, me too…

That it had NCC-1701/7 painted on the side didn’t help matters.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

It was just coincidence that seven people were in it. That's my Canon

 

[tafkats]

As a kid, I'm pretty sure I thought that Commander Riker was in charge because ... commander.

 

[CoveTom]

I thought the "Seven" in the title "The Galieo Seven" referred to the number of the shuttlecraft, not the seven people aboard.

I still think that...

 

[B.J.]

Not quite the same thing, but, as a kid back in the sixties, I used to worry about a fly getting into the transporter beam with Captain Kirk.

Because of the Vincent Price movie.

They finally kinda touched on that with ENT S1E4 "Strange New World", where the guy getting transported back got a bunch of leaves embedded in him.

 

[Ceridwen]

Here's another weird one: For some reason when I was a kid I thought that the kanar that the Cardassians are always drinking was made out of fish. I don't know where I got that from, nor how you would make a fish liquor. I thought it was from one of the novels, maybe, but Memory Beta says it's made out of grapes (though that seems to be based on a real world "kanar" that was sold to fans).

 

[Rahul]

I have a funny one about Star WARS:

In the original saga I thought the Star Wars races lore/world-building was much more similar to Star Trek:
With each advanced species having it's own space and planets, with alien visitors from other species, and "unclaimed" planets like Tattooine between the major powers, where people from many species come together and colonize.
And that then the entire main story takes place in the "human" controlled part of the galaxy, which is currently taken over by the evil Empire. And that basically Admiral Ackbar & co was one of the other alien factions getting involved/supporting one side in the human civil war.

But alas, the prequel trilogy (specifically the galactic Senate) put an end to this interpretation - humans are just better, and more, and everywhere, on every planet, and in control everywhere.... (But I still like my head-cabin world-building more... even if it's properly debunked by now...)

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I suppose this one is fairly common, but when I was about 7 or 8 years old and first saw The Menagerie I thought the flashbacks actually came from a series 13 years previously that I had somehow missed. Did not compute. It also took me several viewings to figure out Number One was the same actress who played Nurse Chapel.

I'd heard of such misapprehensions myself, as a child in the early 1970s, and was very briefly taken in by them myself, before learning that the "Pike Series" had never gotten past a pilot (at least until SNW debuted, decades later).

There have been hoaxes along those lines as well. Some of them go so far as to assert that ST originated as a long-forgotten dime novel series. Much more amusing and less destructive than the "Requiem for a Martian" hoax (about an inexcusably awful 80th TOS episode that made it all the way through post-production and a single airing, before being suppressed with extreme prejudice).

For some reason when I was a kid I thought that the kanar that the Cardassians are always drinking was made out of fish.

Well, Cardassians do canonically drink fish juice. Served warm.

 

[1001001]

I have a funny one about Star WARS:

In the original saga I thought the Star Wars races lore/world-building was much more similar to Star Trek:
With each advanced species having it's own space and planets, with alien visitors from other species, and "unclaimed" planets like Tattooine between the major powers, where people from many species come together and colonize.
And that then the entire main story takes place in the "human" controlled part of the galaxy, which is currently taken over by the evil Empire. And that basically Admiral Ackbar & co was one of the other alien factions getting involved/supporting one side in the human civil war.

But alas, the prequel trilogy (specifically the galactic Senate) put an end to this interpretation - humans are just better, and more, and everywhere, on every planet, and in control everywhere.... (But I still like my head-cabin world-building more... even if it's properly debunked by now...)

If only there was a dedicated forum where people could discuss Star Wars…

 

[The Wormhole]

I thought the "Seven" in the title "The Galieo Seven" referred to the number of the shuttlecraft, not the seven people aboard.

I'm too embarrassed to reveal how old I was when I figured that out. Hint: a three was in my age, and it wasn't the right side digit.

 

[FredH]

I thought the "Seven" in the title "The Galieo Seven" referred to the number of the shuttlecraft, not the seven people aboard.

I’m still not certain it’s not. I mean, all seven of them aren’t as important to the story as all seven Magnificents or Samurai or Soldiers of Victory are to theirs.

 

[FredH]

I have a funny one about Star WARS:

In the original saga I thought the Star Wars races lore/world-building was much more similar to Star Trek:
With each advanced species having it's own space and planets, with alien visitors from other species, and "unclaimed" planets like Tattooine between the major powers, where people from many species come together and colonize.
And that then the entire main story takes place in the "human" controlled part of the galaxy, which is currently taken over by the evil Empire. And that basically Admiral Ackbar & co was one of the other alien factions getting involved/supporting one side in the human civil war.

But alas, the prequel trilogy (specifically the galactic Senate) put an end to this interpretation - humans are just better, and more, and everywhere, on every planet, and in control everywhere.... (But I still like my head-cabin world-building more... even if it's properly debunked by now...)

It would explain why they’re all so weird and shocking to Luke in Mos Eisley, who I guess hasn’t been running into them in Tosche Station or Anchorhead or wherever.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I’m still not certain it’s not

Al Shepard named his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 after a whole confluence of 7s: Mercury spacecraft serial number 7, launched on Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle serial number 7, in a program that had 7 astronauts.

The other 5 Mercury spacecraft were given names ending in 7 because of the 7 astronauts. Only 6 of whom actually flew in the program, with Deke Slayton grounded because of atrial fibrillation, and not getting a flight until Apollo-Soyuz.

 

[Mudd]

I don't know how weird this assumption is, but in 1966 the three kids including me who assumed we were the only people in the world watching Star Trek thought Spock was from a hot planet closer to the Sun than Mercury. The hypothetical existence of a solar planet referred to as "Vulcan" was still a thing in the mid-Sixties, or recently enough that it showed up in the occasional outdated science book in the school library (I read science books written by George Gamow!), and certainly in a lot of "golden age" science fiction stories.

Fictional planets of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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