How have we never gotten anything about that XCV Enterprise?

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The thing that makes me feel old is when I see people I watched grow up, including a few I knew when they were in diapers, now raising their own kids. While meanwhile, I have 23 years on the proverbial "40-year-old virgin" (and once again, I find myself alluding to a movie I've never actually seen).

The purple Enterprise-D, The World Razer

Why did that episode have me thinking of Purple Panda, and his homeworld, the Planet Purple, from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Barney and Tinky Winky.

I've spent more out of school than I spent before and in it.

Anyway, there's a bunch more Enterprises than there used to be.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The purple Enterprise-D, The World Razer

Hell yeah, gimme an 8-book series about the Purple Enterprise-D!

 

[JD]

Not the first time I've heard that!

True story: Some years ago, when I was on the Warner Bros. lot working on the novelization of The Dark Knight Rises, I joked to a young staffer that I had been writing BATMAN tie-ins "since Michelle Pfeifer was Catwoman."

"Wow," she replied, "that was the year I was born!"

Ouch.

It's hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that there are now adults who have lived their entire lives in the current millennium.

 

[Steve Roby]

It's hard for me to believe there are adults who weren't alive to see moon landings on TV, or news stories about the FLQ, Vietnam, or Watergate, who don't remember when the Edmonton Oilers were in the WHA, not the NHL, who weren't in their last year of high school when John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, and John Paul II were shot... but apparently that's the case.

Continuing the being old thing... the first time I saw a version of the XCV Enterprise was an illustration in a Lincoln Enterprises/Star Trek Enterprises catalogue back around 1977, in the brief catalogue section offering Starship-related material for sale. I was always more curious about what Starship might have been like as its own series rather than what the same type of ship might have been doing in the Star Trek universe.

 

[Greg Cox]

who weren't in their last year of high school when John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, and John Paul II were shot... but apparently that's the case.

I was in college . . . .

 

[Christopher]

It's hard for me to believe there are adults who weren't alive to see moon landings on TV, or news stories about the FLQ, Vietnam, or Watergate,

I remember seeing one of the Moon landings when I was very young, and some of the Watergate hearings.

who don't remember when the Edmonton Oilers were in the WHA, not the NHL,

That's a) Canadian and b) sports, so it goes over my head.

who weren't in their last year of high school when John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, and John Paul II were shot...

That was my first year of high school, I think. The Challenger disaster was in my last year, announced while I was in English class.

 

[Enterprise1701]

who don't remember when the Edmonton Oilers were in the WHA, not the NHL,

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what that is.

 

[Greg Cox]

That was my first year of high school, I think. The Challenger disaster was in my last year, announced while I was in English class.

I remember Spiro Agnew's resignation being announced in class -- in junior high, I think?

 

[Steve Roby]

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what that is.

The Edmonton Oilers are a team in the National Hockey League, as of 1979. For a few years they were part of the smaller and short-lived competing league, the World Hockey Association. I don't pay a lot of attention to sports but if you're Canadian and live in a city with a hockey team, and often when you live somewhere that doesn't have one, you're going to hear about hockey anyway. Considering I was a teenager in Edmonton when the Oilers moved to the NHL and Wayne Gretzky was starting to become one of the most famous players at the time, believe me, I heard about it.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The Edmonton Oilers are a team in the National Hockey League

And of course, they are the favorite team of mathematicians. Oilers = Euler's

 

[Daddy Todd]

I was in college . . . .

Moi aussi

 

[Tuskin38]

I feel the same when I think about people born after 9/11.
I was in Grade 6 when it happened, even here in Canada they stopped class to watch the news.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I was fresh out of the University, and working a temporary assignment in equipment maintenance for the L.A. Unified School District when the Challenger exploded. More specifically, I was sitting outside a storage outbuilding at a child care center (the one at Locke High, as I recall), repairing chairs and tricycles, when my partner for the day came back from a coffee run, and announced what had happened. At first, I thought it was some kind of cruel joke. Then I found out otherwise.

The first time I saw any news footage of the World Trade Center Atrocities was five years later, seeing an NBC News 5th anniversary retrospective (in the common-room of a B&B in Windsor, VT, as I recall). To very closely paraphrase Spock, in "Court Martial," if I drop a hammer, while in a gravity well, I don't need to see it fall, to know that it has fallen.

 

[Greg Cox]

I was living in NYC, in the West Village, when Towers came down. I didn't see them fall with my own eyes -- I saw it on TV like so many others -- but then I ran out onto the sidewalk to see the huge plumes of smoke and ash rising up from where the Tower used to be.

Everything below 23rd Street was shut down for days. Emergency vehicles only. I had to trudge on foot up to Time Square to get a newspaper, and put towels up over our door and windows to keep out the blowing ash. That day -- and its aftermath -- are burned into my brain forever.

And just to bring us back to Trek, this was about two weeks before Enterprise debuted.

 

[Steve Roby]

I feel the same when I think about people born after 9/11.
I was in Grade 6 when it happened, even here in Canada they stopped class to watch the news.

9/11 was my wedding day. I was 38.

To add some Star Trek relevance, in 2003 I was in NYC with my wife for a work trip. We got to meet the Pocket Star Trek office folks and heard their 9/11 stories.

 

[Cicero]

It's hard for me to believe there are adults who weren't alive to see moon landings on TV, or news stories about the FLQ, Vietnam, or Watergate, who don't remember when the Edmonton Oilers were in the WHA, not the NHL, who weren't in their last year of high school when John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, and John Paul II were shot... but apparently that's the case.

I'm too young to remember anything on your list, to the point that I didn't know that John Paul II was shot. My earliest memory in this thread is Batman Returns.

My mother was supposed to be in the plane's path at the Pentagon on 9/11 (along with my grandparents), but on Sunday was rescheduled for 9/10, and thankfully flew home that night.

Probably because that time period hasn't ever been covered in the franchise. Not onscreen or in any tie-in material.

I think it probably falls within the Zefram Cochrane story in Federation.