Yes, edisraf, that is indeed my concoction. Over on the Trek Art forum (at the risk of taking this thread off-topic), we have monthly challenges to do some type of Trek-related art according to the instructions of last month's winner. For April the challenge was to create something Trek-related but with a James Bond, or otherwise '60s spy-show, motif. With James Bond being "007," and with two other great "7's" in Trek history, I created a fictitious pulp fiction book cover based on a concept for a spinoff I called "7&7." The complete entry, along with my take on the other Seven, appears here.
To be fair to the original topic of this thread: My first exposure to Star Trek at a time when I would have known what it was, was approximately 1971 -- I was 6. I believe the show's first showing in reruns in my old hometown of Oklahoma City would have been Sunday afternoons at 4 pm, between Wide World of Sports and the news, on the ABC affiliate, Channel 5. Within days, my friends at school and I had replaced our typical playground improvised melodrama, which had been based on the Justice League (albeit with one of the guys insisting on being Spider-Man) with Star Trek. And of course, with me already being Scott, my character was chosen for me out of convenience.
Although we often traded roles, for the most part, my six- and seven-year old buddies and I were all Shatners at heart. That is, we milked our parts for what they were worth at all times, as if cameras somewhere were always rolling. Without any of us being a "director" or a "head writer," it's amazing how much of a de facto series bible we were able to work out under such stressful conditions (the recess bell could ring at any moment). That bible would reveal the following canonical facts:
DF "To This Day Still Reeling from the Rescue Shuttlecraft" Scott
To be fair to the original topic of this thread: My first exposure to Star Trek at a time when I would have known what it was, was approximately 1971 -- I was 6. I believe the show's first showing in reruns in my old hometown of Oklahoma City would have been Sunday afternoons at 4 pm, between Wide World of Sports and the news, on the ABC affiliate, Channel 5. Within days, my friends at school and I had replaced our typical playground improvised melodrama, which had been based on the Justice League (albeit with one of the guys insisting on being Spider-Man) with Star Trek. And of course, with me already being Scott, my character was chosen for me out of convenience.
Although we often traded roles, for the most part, my six- and seven-year old buddies and I were all Shatners at heart. That is, we milked our parts for what they were worth at all times, as if cameras somewhere were always rolling. Without any of us being a "director" or a "head writer," it's amazing how much of a de facto series bible we were able to work out under such stressful conditions (the recess bell could ring at any moment). That bible would reveal the following canonical facts:
- Spock was impervious to Klingon disruptor rays, by virtue of his Vulcan Mind Field, a telepathic projection that stops incoming projectiles.
- Kirk carries with him at all times a foil-covered roll of tablets, whose potency is indicated by a hole in the center, and whose purpose (clearly marked on the label) is to completely resuscitate him in case of severe injury or death.
- McCoy's hypo spray doubles as a dagger, which can be thrown short distances and which stuns the first enemy it touches.
- Security precautions enacted during the fourth season resulted in the banning of all females from the Starship Enterprise, and the reprogramming of the computer for a male voice.
- Mr. Scott, unbeknownst to many of his colleagues, also invented a rescue shuttlecraft, ingeniously disguised as a 20th century farm tractor rear tire. The craft generates its own energy field capable of warping through time back to yesterday, although extended use of the craft can cause severe dizziness and nausea.
- All ship's personnel are permitted to carry as many phasers on their person as they like at all times, including phasers disguised as ordinary objects (erasers, sticks of gum, sandwiches, etc.).
DF "To This Day Still Reeling from the Rescue Shuttlecraft" Scott
Love it!
Nice touch!
