Star Trek and the moon.

[Timo]

...especially if you were actively looking for it and knew generally where to look.

In this respect, I guess we can agree to consider Riker's exclamation about the Moon looking refresheningly different in 2063 an unadulterated piece of bullshit.

Riker is trying to inspire Cochrane to see the benefits of an active space program and a bold new future that his stardrive is going to usher in. Thus, even if Lake Armstrong can only be seen when one is looking really actively, and perhaps only in illumination circumstances that don't really apply to First Contact Day, Riker would use it as an argument here.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[T'Girl]

Major metropalitan areas on Earth might be visible to someone on the moon, so the opposite would be true. Riker said that there were fifty million people living on the moon, likely through not all in one community.

A city of nearly a million could put out enough light to be seen from Earth under the right conditions.

 

[sbk1234]

Doesn't really count as official Star Trek, but I found this on the internet, and I thought it may be appropriate here.

 

[Bishop76]

Nope - that belongs in the "Is Star Trek homophobic" thread.

 

[T'Girl]

Do you ever have that "burning itching" feeling?

 

[USS Excelsior]

Maybe Lake Armstrong is a holographic projection.