True, true. That was exactly what I was wondering about in my original post. Still, some of the other posts have been interesting, even if not directly on-topic.
- Byron
Pop culture references in TrekLit?
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True, true. That was exactly what I was wondering about in my original post. Still, some of the other posts have been interesting, even if not directly on-topic.
- Byron
That's the one.
Missing Link 3, I believe?
As I recall, in that same book, Worf offers an idea for the next movie night. Observe:
Worf: "It is more...glorious. The hero is silent. The villains are obvious. And there are well-choreographed sequences of hand-to-hand combat.
It is called...Rambo V."
Riker: "And you say it's more 'glorious'?"
Worf: "Everyone dies."
Hmm...so far, there's only been four Rambo/First-Blood films. The last one was only a few years ago--and Stallone's no spring chicken. The Expendables may still show him on top of his game (I haven't seen it yet)--but...if there will be a "Rambo V", it's going to have to be pretty soon....
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Well, you've sold me. I must buy DTI if only to support authors who make references to Isaac Asimov. :-D
(The good doctor is my favorite author.)
^And of course, Asimov and The Bird were the best of friends.
Starfleet Academy: The Delta Anomaly's 23rd century San Francisco is very much today's version but with a few aliens and a space college thrown in. Laptops, flash drives, phones... but I can't recall any secific brands being mentioned.
Okay here's one:
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Daniel's
I remembered this, because A Less Perfect Union also had a more veiled reference to Kirk and Gary Mitchell sharing a bottle of Jack.
Didn't Taranatar fight a holodeck Predator in a DS9 Relaunch novel?
In the comics, there has been a red alien who resembled the alien queen from "Alien", a green Christmas alien that resembled the Grinch (Dr Seuss), and Kirk, Spock and McCoy briefly appeared to a delusional crewman as Opus, Bill and Portnoy from the "Bloom County" comic strips.
In the comics, there has been a red alien who resembled the alien queen from "Alien", a green Christmas alien that resembled the Grinch (Dr Seuss), and Kirk, Spock and McCoy briefly appeared to a delusional crewman as Opus, Bill and Portnoy from the "Bloom County" comic strips.
I think it was an Alien-franchise Xenomorph, as I stated above.
Okay...that rings a bell in my head. I can almost picture it. But, I can't, for the life of me, remember where I saw that...
Okay...that rings a bell in my head. I can almost picture it. But, I can't, for the life of me, remember where I saw that...
DC Comics first series #51, written by Peter David.
I love "Google Image Search"!
Kirk: "Mr Spock, are you a penguin?"
Spock: "Not that I am aware of, sir".
It was Mission Gamma: Cathedral, and I wrote the scene. I've had a lot of people recognize what it was supposed to be, but a lot who didn't as well, so it worked either way!
And I believe that I referenced Stephen King in one of the books I wrote Riker in...
Thanks for chiming in Andy. I just read Cathedral a few books ago. I remember the holosuite scene but I totally missed the Alien reference. I guess I must've just flew through the scene. I'll have to go back and look at it.
I just started Worlds of DS9: Trill: Unjoined so it's quite timely that one of my posts caught your attention.
- Byron
A bottle of Jack Daniel's Black Label is among the liquor McCoy's unpacking in The Final Reflection's framing scenes.
