Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[Tallguy]

You Yanks and your fancy Eclipse glasses, I remember when we had one we made makeshift glasses out of Kitchen roll tubes

I do remember doing the pinhole in the cardboard thing back when Saturday Morning cartoons were a thing and there was only one Star Wars movie.

Nobody told me I could have used my uncle's welding goggles.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

SPOCK: Registering a reading of 342,000,000 units on the Scoville scale. I believe this pepper will be adequte for Captain Pike's steak rub.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Happy launch day! April 11, 2245 is the day the 1701 was launched, according to her bridge plaques.

 

[The Wormhole]

The Trek franchise seems to have an odd fixation with April. Other examples include First Contact Day being April 5, which would later become the date of the Synth attack on Mars. The NX-01 was launched in April 2151, and the anniversary of its launch would later become the holiday Frontier Day, of which the Borg launch an attack on in the final season of Picard. Then of course there's Robert April.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

The Vulcan lirpa is an anagram of April. In fact, it's April backwards!

 

[Tuskin38]

Happy launch day! April 11, 2245 is the day the 1701 was launched, according to her bridge plaques.

I think that date may have also appeared in some older source, but I could be wrong

 

[137th Gebirg]

The Trek franchise seems to have an odd fixation with April. Other examples include First Contact Day being April 5, which would later become the date of the Synth attack on Mars. The NX-01 was launched in April 2151, and the anniversary of its launch would later become the holiday Frontier Day, of which the Borg launch an attack on in the final season of Picard. Then of course there's Robert April.

The Vulcan lirpa is an anagram of April. In fact, it's April backwards!

Holy crap! Never noticed any of these things but yeah...

So, in looking at Gene Roddenberry's Wiki page to see if there are any other significant April dates, it does have this:

• On April 24 [1964], he sent three copies and two dollars to the Writers Guild of America to register his series. He called it Star Trek.
• During 1974, Roddenberry reworked the Genesis II concept as a second pilot, Planet Earth, for rival network ABC... The pilot was aired on April 23, 1974.
• On April 21, 1997, a Celestis spacecraft with 7 grams (1⁄4 oz) of the cremated remains of Roddenberry, along with those of Timothy Leary, Gerard K. O'Neill and 21 other people, was launched into Earth orbit as part of the Minisat 01 mission aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from a site near the Canary Islands.
• In the "References" section at the bottom, there are 40 instances of the month of April, the most of any other month, whereas the other months have these counts:
  • January: 19
  • February: 6
  • March: 31
  • May: 9
  • June: 8
  • July: 8
  • August: 6
  • September: 10
  • October: 7
  • November: 5
  • December: 4

So there does appear to be something of a correlation with the month of April and Gene's life. However, it has been my experience that anyone who dabbles extensively with numerology, gematria and calendar- or astrological-based correlations like this can choose to find what they want to find and manipulate the results to fit the conditions of any postulation if they're creative enough.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Also, according to the old fan published USS Enterprise Officer's Manual, April 11 is Captain Pike's birthday.

His birthday and the Enterprise's are the same!

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Also, according to the old fan published USS Enterprise Officer's Manual, April 11 is Captain Pike's birthday.

His birthday and the Enterprise's are the same!

Twins separated at birth.

 

[cooleddie74]

Both have incredible hair.

 

[Tallguy]

Both have incredible hair.

May you find your way as pleasant.

 

[HotRod]

Paul is back in Toronto. You know what that means!

 

[Tuskin38]

He wants a good plate of poutine?

though wrong province for that.

 

[fireproof78]

Paul is back in Toronto. You know what that means!

Random Instagram posts of food I know nothing about?

 

[Tosk]

You know what that means!

That the reason Kirk is given command of the Enterprise was because they knew he'd be there all the damn time anyway.

 

[cooleddie74]

 

[Tallguy]

What mad genius did this? It's perfect!

BTW that cover proves yet again that the shape of the Disco-prise is not nearly as egregious as her texturing.

 

[Tosk]

Clearly, the Farragut doesn't actually need a first officer.

 

[HotRod]

What mad genius did this? It's perfect!

BTW that cover proves yet again that the shape of the Disco-prise is not nearly as egregious as her texturing.

Even her hull textures aren't too bad. It's how they light the ship that gives it that very metallic look.

 

[HotRod]

Like there was any doubt.