Random LOLs and observations about Trek serieses
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Well, according to at least one old Strange New Worlds story (non-canon, of course, but whatever), Star Trek *does* exist in its own universe, via Berlinghoff Rasmussen traveling to the 1960s and teaming up with Gene Roddenberry.
Which makes me wonder what happens when James Kirk and Spock and all look up their names in the database. Are they freaked out that some fiction writer appears to have predicted their existence three hundred years prior? Does the Department of Temporal Investigations safeguard this information to help preserve the timeline?
McCoy's childhood nickname was probably "Lenny".
Do you recall which issue of Strange New Worlds that story was in?
Strange New Worlds II - "Research". I just re-read it to jog my memory. It's written as a letter from J.R. Rasmussen to the producers of Deep Space Nine (and Voyager apparently), where she remarks how she's been time-travelling to the future and the past and getting all these details about to deliver to them. Also, she was apparently assimilated by the Borg, is the ancestor of Berlinghoff Rasmussen (who travelled to the past and gave her his time pod and helped her with Star Trek and meeting Roddenberry), and was being seduced by a Travelling Wesley Crusher. To each their own, I guess.
Nah, it was Mack.
Not really so weird though...almost all TV shows ever made are set in a world where their TV show doesn't exist. Would be pretty confusing otherwise.
Not really so weird though...almost all TV shows ever made are set in a world where their TV show doesn't exist. Would be pretty confusing otherwise.
Like, it means that our counterparts in that universe (if we can be assumed to have existed) are either very bored or have latched onto something else.
Regarding the starship thing, sorry. It's just I have all these ideas bursting out of my head.
That was high school. He had the hotrod.
That moonshine wasn't going to move it's self.
Re Shatner's supposed penchant for line-stealing from the other actors:
When I hear that, I get this picture in my head of an otherwise empty bridge with Jim Kirk running around to every station, doing everybody's job and answering his own commands with "aye, aye sir!" in his impressions of the other character's voices and mannerisms.
And then we realize that a) it's a holodeck program and b) the senior staff has been watching him via a closed-circuit camera feed the whole time. That, or they're standing at the door of the holodeck watching, and he only sees them after he's been doing this for a few moments.
*deep voice* "Lieutenant?" *jogs over to comms station* *high girly voice* "Yes, captain?" *jogs back to captain's chair* *deep voice again* "Hail the planet." *jogs back to comms* *high voice again* "Yes, sir".
Yeah, but what's its top speed?
Yeah, but what's its top speed?
Warp factor Fix. As in sugar fix.
^Sounds like hyper drive.
Kirk dies (Shatnerverse excepted), but his actor is still alive. Meanwhile, McCoy lives to be in his mid-100s (Encounter at Farpoint (ep), Flesh and Stone (comic)) while Scotty cheats death via transporter (Relics, and SCE books) both actors have since died.
I know why they didn't kill McCoy and Scotty off in canon yet - they're too beloved, and perhaps nobody can think of a fitting way for their characters to go. It's nice to think they're still out there exploring and offering their wisdom. It's just ironic, that's all. Shatner's still around but aside from time travel, appearing as a hologram, or contradicting Generations, he can't be Kirk.
Spock Prime has died in the alternate reality, never having gone home.
I know why they didn't kill McCoy and Scotty off in canon yet - they're too beloved, and perhaps nobody can think of a fitting way for their characters to go. It's nice to think they're still out there exploring and offering their wisdom. It's just ironic, that's all. Shatner's still around but aside from time travel, appearing as a hologram, or contradicting Generations, he can't be Kirk.
I don't know about top speed, but we can approximate her cruising speed by figuring how fast she'd have to go to get you to Peppermint Bay during the day, and back to your own bed that night. (What planet is Peppermint Bay even on, though?)Yeah, but what's its top speed?
I wonder would Mirror Sybok be on a quest to find the devil.
If so, would he be fooled into accidentally nearly freeing a powerful good being? And what if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us?
That didn't stop them with Kirk.
Perhaps because people reacted negatively to his death, they were reluctant to touch the others?