Dumb Thing I Want To See...

[Nardpuncher]

Yeah, Just last week I brought up at work how the 20,000 leagues that were done under the sea were in a line, under the surface, and not straight down, as that would likely put you halfway to the moon.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Or anything that isn't owned by the studio that makes Star Trek.....

They gotta pay for that stuff, y'know!

I thought that copyright law states that if a piece of copyrighted material is referenced as fiction (like referring to Star Wars as a cultural phenomena based upon a movie), they don't have to pay rights.

Of course, it's been years since I read up on this stuff, so I could be wrong.

 

[Tiberius]

I never knew that. If you can find a source, I'd like to see it.

 

[Tiberius]

I never knew that. If you can find a source, I'd like to see it.

 

[jamestyler]

I thought that copyright law states that if a piece of copyrighted material is referenced as fiction (like referring to Star Wars as a cultural phenomena based upon a movie), they don't have to pay rights.

Of course, it's been years since I read up on this stuff, so I could be wrong.

Thats my understanding, but I haven't studied that sort of thing since my first year at Uni. Which was a while ago.

I might look into it when I'm trying not to work at some point this weekend.

 

[Crewman47]

Twilight Zone is mentioned in the Enterprise episode "Carbon Creek" by Trip.

I wonder if the two episodes with Shatner are still in there? Maybe it's an alternate universe (it must be, as it's impossible to have Star Trek the TV show exist in the same universe that will evetually have Kirk and the Enterprise in the 23rd century) and William Shatner is still in it, but of course he never played Kirk.
But would people in the 23rd century think that that actor looks uncannily like the captain of the Enterprise? Or did the "real" Kirk look different?

I like to think that a show called Star Trek, created by a man called Gene Roddenberry would exist in the Trek verse but in a radically different way than the Trek we know of and would no doubt have different cast members and characters in it. Also if the cast that we know of do exist in the Trek verse then could just explain it of as a time twin or something with no relative connection other than they just look like each other.

 

[jamestyler]

Maybe it'd be like Jack O'Neil watching Wormhole X-Treme in SG1?

 

[M'Sharak]

I think we had Trip talking about Superman comics as well, in ENT.

They did, in "Shuttlepod One". A few movie night selections may fit the category, too.

Films known to have been shown on movie night include:

• For Whom the Bell Tolls (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
• Sunset Boulevard (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
• The Wages of Fear (ENT: "Vox Sola")
• The Day the Earth Stood Still, albeit on a monitor in compartment 5 of the Enterprise catwalk (ENT: "The Catwalk")
• Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein, "the three greatest horror movies ever made" (ENT: "Horizon")
• Rosemary's Baby (ENT: "Twilight")

 

[Dale]

"Visit to a Weird Planet" and "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited"... two old Star Trek short stories worth tracking down.

 

[M'Sharak]

"Visit to a Weird Planet" and "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited"... two old Star Trek short stories worth tracking down.

I thought about those stories when I saw this post:

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If Star Trek did exist in the Trek universe, why is it that no one was saying to Kirk and Co., "Man, your costumes are so real! You really look like Kirk and Spock and Sulu and Chekov!" in Star trek 4?