Misquoting Star Trek
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Maybe it means he'd give up his antique coin collection.
If someone insisted on being literal-minded, they would assume that telephones still had rotary dials because we still "dial" telephone numbers, they would assume that compact discs were tape devices because we "rewind" them, and they would assume that all our ships were wind-powered because they "set sail."
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The penny, however, is rather obsolete. It was either Crusher talking to Picard or Janeway talking to Chakotay and the speaker says "Penny for your thoughts." The reply was about not having a penny and the speaker replied that she was sure there was a replicator pattern on file somewhere for a penny.
So, no penny within easy reach, but surely the pattern is still on file and can be replicated.
So, no penny within easy reach, but surely the pattern is still on file and can be replicated.
Well, it's dial a number.
From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dial:
e.g. http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2507066, from 2012. You can Google plenty more examples, yourself.
Nimoy has said that he would've liked someone of more stature to play the Kohlinar Priestess in TMP. That's why he cast Dame Judith Anderson when the chance came around in STIII. I believe that Nimoy talked about this in Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories book.
The 23rd Century still uses some form of currency. Kirk tells Scotty that he's earned his pay for the week in TOS (in "The Apple", IIRC). And McCoy and the Bar Alien haggle over the cost of a ride to Genesis in TSFS.
When Kirk tells Gillian Taylor that they don't use money in the future in TVH, he means that they don't use the same system that's in use in 1986. It's the same as if you or I traveled back in time several centuries and didn't have gold coins or whatever the then-current currency was.
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I hear (and use) "call a number" commonly, but dial a number does seemed to have fallen from the language.
Outside of photos/TV/movies I can't remember ever seeing a rotary phone.
I hear (and use) "call a number" commonly, but dial a number does seemed to have fallen from the language.
Outside of photos/TV/movies I can't remember ever seeing a rotary phone.
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Yep. It's fallen from the language alright....
It's almost uniquely British, but how about the variant terminology "to ring"? As in "Ring me later, would you?" Is that fading with the ring tones going "bleedle-bleedle"?
It's still quite common to hear "The number you have dialed is no longer in service" and similar recordings.
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Yeah, I figure they must use a different form of currency. It would be nice if they would have been more clear, but between Gene's "there's no money in the future!" and everyone else's "obviously there is money in the future," the message was always mixed.
I hear (and use) "call a number" commonly, but dial a number does seemed to have fallen from the language.
Outside of photos/TV/movies I can't remember ever seeing a rotary phone.
I can tell you that "dial" is still a commonly used word. Cell phones have keypads, which you dial. Home phones have number pads which you dial.
When you call an old number, sometimes "the number you have dialed has been disconnected."
The usage is still in the common lexicon.
Well, Roddenberry didn't start hitting the "there's no money in the future" note hard until he started doing TNG. Before that, I remember a lot of talk of "credits" in TOS and the movies. Heck, "The Trouble With Tribbles" alone proves that there's some form of currency in the future.
But yeah, everyone else on the Trek shows pretty much discounted the no money thing, as it was yet another GR idea like "no conflict among the human characters" that made Trek near-impossible to write.
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