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Dusty Abell returns with a Trek/Dr. Who crossover fanart. It even includes the modern Trek and Who stars if you're a fan of that.

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Matt Parker explains how the Greenwich Observatory defines the Prime Meridian


I knew about some of this stuff from Isaac Asimov articles, but I still learned a lot from the video. Such as how the actual Prime Meridian moved to more precise locations as the measurement equipment got more precise. Until 1984 when they gave up and just picked a line independent of the stars in the sky.

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Adam Savage encounters Wah Chang's original tricorder sketch and one of the original tricorders.


I feel that's it's sad that the contributions of Wah Chang, Matt Jeffries, etc. will be forgotten over time. Eventually the only person from the TOS production staff that anyone remembers will be Gene himself.

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Adam Savage meets the Okudas.


The Okudas are Trek royalty, up there with Matt Jeffries and Wah Chang. I don't think I've heard them speak before, the closest I got was the technical subtitle commentary tracks for the Trek films.

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Stuff Made Here attempts to make the world's smallest (as in shortest front to back) bicycle.


It's ludicrous stuff like this that really makes my day.

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Watching AI-generated fan trailers can get ridiculous sometimes, and this recast of TNG is no exception.



I can't even comment without falling down the nitpicking hole. Just watch it, it's worth seven minutes of your time.

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The ten TOS episodes that were written by DC Fontana.


Now that's an interesting selection.



To follow up on a prior post, Fontana is definitely Trek royalty.

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As a Midwesterner I of course have a soft spot for butter sculptures. Well, someone decided to make some for the 1701 and the TOS crew.

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Adam Savage encounters more Trek prop replicas.

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You can now buy the electronic innards of the Enterprise-D warp core and 3D print the rest.


Unofficial PNQ: Which is your favorite warp core?


Not Voyager. NOT Voyager. That thing was hideous.

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Adam Savage meets the next generation of 1701 models.


I hope these are still prototypes, because I definitely see some coloring errors, especially in the nacelles.

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If you follow the Trek reddit channels, no doubt you've seen plenty of posts about how the real date of the Bell Riots is coming up.


Well, Orange River made a video discussing it.

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The Starfleet Promise


One problem with Trek tribute videos is that they tend to recycle the same cliched scenes over and over again. This one doesn't. Not only does this video get to the heart of Trek, it even dips into related scifi shows that try to teach the same sort of lessons. And there's plenty of NuTrek if that happens to be your thing.

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I try not to post cosplays anymore, there are just too many of them to keep up, but this one is special.


Truly Scrumptious as the doll on the music box, complete with performance

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Originally Posted by Nate the Great

The Starfleet Promise


One problem with Trek tribute videos is that they tend to recycle the same cliched scenes over and over again. This one doesn't. Not only does this video get to the heart of Trek, it even dips into related scifi shows that try to teach the same sort of lessons. And there's plenty of NuTrek if that happens to be your thing.

That's a great video.

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Matthias Wandel returns with a giant wood screw and nut


Actually I'd call that thing a bolt, not a screw. To me screws have points and hold things together via friction. Bolts don't have points and use nuts to hold things together via compression and shear strength.



Then again, I'm an engineer and take these things more seriously.

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A math/Pokemon joke from Facebook

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There's an arrowhead-shaped arrangement of blue ice in Canada that some are calling a lookalike for the Star Trek insignia (a Cochrane delta).


I can see where they'd get that impression, but I'm OCD enough to say that to really be a Cochrane delta you need the left leg to be fatter than the right. So that's just a generic arrowhead to me, nothing more.

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Pop culture mug, including the 1701


Of course the part that irks me is putting the 1701 refit at 2265. The 1701 refit was launched during STTMP in 2271 (Memory Alpha notes continuity problems with this, but I always put STTMP in this year, two years after the 5 year mission).


2265 doesn't even work for the start of the five year mission, that was 2264! So this entry is a 100% truth failure! You'd think the manufacturers of the mug could take five minutes and Google this stuff.

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Scientists discovered several new species of frog, so they named them after the Trek captains.

So yeah, that happened...