Golf in Trek

[ironduke555]

Has the sport of golf ever appeared in a trek book.If not it would be cool to here it mentioned like Riker hitting the links in the holodeck.Some college football would be cool too.This isen't story ideas just curious on sports in the Trek lit world.I'm sick of baseball and really bored today.

 

[Christopher]

There's a rather bizarre golf sequence in John M. Ford's How Much for Just the Planet? Other than that, the only golf reference I'm aware of in ST was in "I, Mudd."

 

[KRAD]

There are references to golf in the SCE eBook War Stories Book 2, which was printed in dead-tree form in the collection Wildfire.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Screw golf.

I want to hear about volleyball. Beach volleyball. Women's beach volleyball.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I've been wondering about sports in Trek too. I've been watching the Olympics while also reading Trek, and together they got me wondering if they've ever had any of this kind of stuff in Trek Lit.

 

[William Leisner]

Screw golf.

I want to hear about volleyball. Beach volleyball. Women's beach volleyball.

Screw hearing about women's beach volleyball...

 

[Stevil2001]

There's a rather bizarre golf sequence in John M. Ford's How Much for Just the Planet? Other than that, the only golf reference I'm aware of in ST was in "I, Mudd."

This is the greatest Chekov scene in all of history. Also, the greatest golf scene.

 

[Lorraine Anderson]

No woman's beach volleyball for me, thanks. Is there men's beach volleyball? I wanna see that.

Hmmmm... seriously. What are the sports mentioned in fiction or film? Picard rode horses, Archer watched water polo. Riker liked a lot of sports, according to Memory Alpha. Anything else I'm forgetting?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Sisko and baseball.

 

[Trent Roman]

"There are FOUR lights." *whacks the ball*

Sports in Trek? There are a few invented ones, like Parises Squares (which I don't think we've ever actually seen) and Velocity (played by Janeway and Seven). There's that game Bashir liked to play, not sure if it was made up or not or not, about playing tennis off a wall. We know that people still ski and swim, although it's unclear whether there are still competitions. Fencing (Picard and Guinan). And then there's darts (Bashir and O'Brien), whose tournaments appear on TSN, but whose status as a sport I've always found dubious.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

There's that game Bashir liked to play, not sure if it was made up or not or not, about playing tennis off a wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball

 

[Lorraine Anderson]

Sisko and baseball.

I was trying to ignore baseball. I think the last game I've actually sat through is when the '84 Detroit Tigers won the World Series. It's duller'n'dishwater for me...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

There's that game Bashir liked to play, not sure if it was made up or not or not, about playing tennis off a wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball

Actually, Bashir played springball, which is a Bajoran sport, but similar to racquetball.

Sisko and baseball.

I was trying to ignore baseball. I think the last game I've actually sat through is when the '84 Detroit Tigers won the World Series. It's duller'n'dishwater for me...

 

[William Leisner]

DS9 also gave us springball, a sport as Bajoran as Mom, hasparat, and katterpod pie.

I think it was also established that Chakotay boxed for the Academy boxing team in the VOY episode "UPN-Mandated WWE Promotional Crossover".

In prose, we learn Sonya Gomez's sister was a professional soccer player in, I think, Breakdowns.

 

[captcalhoun]

soccer's also mentioned as played professionally in ... uh... that season 2 episode where they crash on that planet led by that luddite bitch that locks Sisko in the box...(Sanctuary?)

ah, "Paradise"...

 

[David cgc]

I think it was also established that Chakotay boxed for the Academy boxing team in the VOY episode "UPN-Mandated WWE Promotional Crossover".

No, that was "The Fight." The "UPN-Mandated WWE Promotional Crossover" was "Tsunkatse," which combined a made up word with the Rock (back before he won his true name back from demon trolls of Middle-Earth with his silver-screen magic, along with his ability to assume a facial expression other than the Spockian raised eyebrow) and Seven of Nine in a new outfit which featured cleavage and her kicking men in the face. Now, that's wresting!

 

[Trent Roman]

There's that game Bashir liked to play, not sure if it was made up or not or not, about playing tennis off a wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball

Actually, Bashir played springball, which is a Bajoran sport, but similar to racquetball.

Ah, thanks guys. Not really a sports-minded person.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Christopher]

There's that game Bashir liked to play, not sure if it was made up or not or not, about playing tennis off a wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball

Actually, Bashir played springball, which is a Bajoran sport, but similar to racquetball.

No, you're confusing two different DS9 sports. Bashir (and sometimes O'Brien, particularly in "Rivals") played racquetball, albeit in a futuristic court. Springball is a similar sport played by Kira and other Bajoran characters in episodes such as "Shadowplay" and "Crossfire." Racquetball was also played by Picard and Jono/Jeremiah in "Suddenly Human."

I think it was also established that Chakotay boxed for the Academy boxing team in the VOY episode "UPN-Mandated WWE Promotional Crossover".

No, that was "The Fight." The "UPN-Mandated WWE Promotional Crossover" was "Tsunkatse,"...

True, but "Tsunkatse" did refer to Chakotay's boxing experience a couple of times.

 

[William Leisner]

I think it was also established that Chakotay boxed for the Academy boxing team in the VOY episode "UPN-Mandated WWE Promotional Crossover".

No, that was "The Fight."

Oh, hell, that I could have spelled right without checking...

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

There was a scene with Worf, Riker, and Geordi(?) playing American football in one of the early TNG novels; I want to think it was A Call to Darkness. They also played volleyball in Grounded.