Link Thread

[Nate the Great]

Trek-inspired version of Mount Rushmore with the first four series leads


Or at least it's supposed to be, but that doesn't really look like Sisko to me at all.

[Nate the Great]

"If You Can Identify Five of the People in this Photo, You're Old"


I guess I'm old. These people were famous in the '60s and '70s, before my time. But I had older parents and thus watched older shows and movies.



PNQ: Is Ray Walston the only Trek alumni in there? Of course Lucille Ball was a Trek VIP, but she wasn't an alumni.

[Nate the Great]

The cut orbital skydiving opening of Generations


I understand why it was cut. I didn't know that the scene was intercut with the champagne bottle flying through space.



I do wonder why orbital skydiving is supposed to be fun. You'd need way more life support and inertial dampener equipment on you than Kirk (or B'Elanna later on when she recycled the costume) was wearing. Essentially you'd just be a person in a person-sized shuttle. Furthermore I fail to see what you get out of the experience in the space portion that you wouldn't get in a shuttle, and then the atmosphere experience would just be normal skydiving, just for a longer period and with more equipment.

[Nate the Great]

Nostalgia Nerd talks about the Trojan Room Coffee Pot


This was a real nostalgic boot to the head. Thirty years ago I read about this in the book Dave Barry in Cyberspace. Dave had a chapter devoted to interesting sites in the early days of the World Wide Web, and Trojan Room Coffee Pot was one of them.



It really is interesting, thinking back to the early days when streaming video seemed like a miracle. The days before YouTube when you were limited to three minute Flash videos and you still had to wait for them to load.

[Nate the Great]

The feud between Franz Joseph and Gene Roddenberry


Watch it if only for the 3D visualizations of the kitbash models from the Star Fleet Technical Manual.

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I'm sure you've all see the Carol Burnett sketch where all the men on the Enterprise were turned into women, but did you know there was a second Trek sketch on that show?

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I wasn't expecting to see a Star Trek joke in a Not Always Right entry today...