You need to stop eating that Hawaiian pizza before going to bed.
Random LOLs and observations about Trek serieses
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Yesterday, while at Wal-mart, I heard someone page "Mr. Kyle" to one of the departments. (Not the transporter room.)
Another thing about that clip is that is it is from Season 5, Season 5 was the only season to add streamers when the title 'Star Trek' flashed on screen. They dropped it (I wonder why? to Superman'ish ?) in season 6 and 7 making the sequence identical (baring changes in character names) to Seasons 3 and 4.
Many years ago I was buying something at Radio Shack (back when it actually existed) and I got so pissed that they asked for my name - why the hell did they do that, BTW? - that I just told them I was James T. Kirk.
They didn't get it.
They didn't get it.
Speaking of names, it's a good thing in season 3 TNG brought back Gates for their Marina.
I can only think of it happening on TV shows about TV shows, like Sports Night or 30 Rock or The CriticNot 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.
Many years ago I was buying something at Radio Shack (back when it actually existed) and I got so pissed that they asked for my name - why the hell did they do that, BTW? - that I just told them I was James T. Kirk.
They didn't get it.
That reminded me of when I was job hunting in the mid 90s. I used to go along to a twice weekly thing called Job Club which gave you access to computers, printers, fax machines, phones, etc. Basically, all the facilities you need for seeking out a job at the time. If you attended, it looked good for your regular benefit claim, so you'd have to give your name.
The person bringing around the attendance registere came around asked my name. I was feeling mischievous at the time so I answered James T. Kirk. She'd written down 'James' before I said I was joking. She had no idea who James T. Kirk was...
Imagining a Klingon health insurance/death arrangements company called "Sto-vo-care"
Mad About You existed in a universe where the show "Mad About You" also existed.
Emergency! did an episode in which Johnny's comic subplot of the week involved him obsessing over having missed the ending of an Adam-12 episode...even though Reed and Malloy had appeared on the show.
There was going to be a Quantum Leap episode where Sam leaps in as Thomas Magnum, even though there was an earlier ep where a character is seen watching Magnum P.I..
And of course there's John Munch appearing on The X-Files, even though that show is fictional in the shared L&O/Homicide universe...
And of course there's John Munch appearing on The X-Files, even though that show is fictional in the shared L&O/Homicide universe...
Actually the bizarro show in the show was called Jerry.
Not the same thing, but it's interesting that it's getting harder and harder to make a science fiction show in which Star Trek doesn't exist.
So based on our knowledge, some time between Kirk's early Starfleet years and TOS, they changed the name of the Klingon homeworld from Kronos to Kling. Then sometime between TOS and TNG, they changed it back to Kronos.
Unless one of the differences between the Abramsverse and the Primeverse is that they changed the name from Kling to Kronos a few decades earlier than they did in the Primeverse.
I suppose it's also possible the actual name was always Kronos, and Kling is the name used by some in the Federation because it follows from the word Klingon, much like some of the English names of foreign countries have nothing to do with their real names. The Klingon in Trouble With Tribbles could have referred to it as Kling to make fun of the foreigner he was taunting about conquering, or that could have just been how universal translators translated Kronos at the time.
Unless one of the differences between the Abramsverse and the Primeverse is that they changed the name from Kling to Kronos a few decades earlier than they did in the Primeverse.
I suppose it's also possible the actual name was always Kronos, and Kling is the name used by some in the Federation because it follows from the word Klingon, much like some of the English names of foreign countries have nothing to do with their real names. The Klingon in Trouble With Tribbles could have referred to it as Kling to make fun of the foreigner he was taunting about conquering, or that could have just been how universal translators translated Kronos at the time.
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The only Klingon/s that called Kronos 'Kling' were the ones in Heart of Glory in the TNG's first season. It's been postulated that it was meant to refer to a specific province on Kronos.
That sort of thing is no biggie. What's our planet called? Earth? Terra? Sol III?
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It's worth noting that the dialogue doesn't make it explicit that the Klingon homeworld is called "Kling"; it simply mentions "the traitors of Kling". Kling could be a concept or ideology (like the klin mentioned in The Final Reflection) or a location on Qo'noS (perhaps the point of origin of the Klingon Empire), or perhaps a poetic name for Qo'noS, like "Terra" or "Tellus" or "the blue marble".
It is my personal head canon that "Klingon" was originally a nationality, describing the people of Kling. Presumably, this is the nation that either Molor or Kahless were from, or perhaps both. As the empire expanded and took over the whole planet, however, the nationality over time became synonymous with the species.
24th Century humans have fewer inhibitions so they have expanded their frolicking beyond the bedroom.