This Week’s Star Trek Episode is “The Naked Time”. In this episode, while monitoring the break-up of a dying planet, the crew becomes infected with a mysterious illness that causes them to lose all inhibitions and act upon their deepest secrets. Keven Riley locks himself in Engineering and turns off the ship’s engines, ensuring that the ship will be destroyed along with the planet. Continue reading »
Sep 242010
It was on this date in 1960 that America’s first nuclear powered submarine, the U. S. S. Enterprise, was launched.
The Naval aircraft carrier (CVN-65) is the second-oldest commissioned vessel in the U. S. Navy, after the wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate USS Constitution.
As of this writing, the Enterprise is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2013 after what will have been 51 years of service – the most of any ship in U.S. Naval history.
While the aircraft carrier itself doesn’t have anything to do with a science fiction related blog, it still is worth mentioning because of a certain StarShip which bears the same name as well as the fact that the carrier made an appearance in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
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Sep 232010
Wouldn’t you hate to be a “redshirt” on star Trek?
It seems that, at least on Original Star Trek, if someone is wearing a red uniform and their name isn’t Scotty or Uhura then you can bet you’re probably going to see them die before the end of the show.
It is our hypothesis that on the show insurance companies specialize in policies like “short term life insurance NC” and short term health insurance NC (in this case, NC being “No Contract). These would be policies designed for characters that have no contract and cannot be expected to survive the season.
Sep 222010
We were discussing Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country recently when an interesting, and funny, comment was made.
There’s a scene in which Kirk, imprisoned on the frozen asteroid Rura Penthe, gets into a fight with an alien and kicks him in the knee. The huge alien bends down with his eyes rolling back in his head and groans. The shapeshifter who has befriended Kirk makes the comment that “not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place”.
This brought up the question here, “If you gave that guy a ‘male enhancement’ pill, what sort of extenze side effects do you think HE would experience?”
Just for grins, We’re going to open this up for discussion. Please remember we’re a family-friendly blog and, with that in mind, feel free to post your hypothesis in the comments.
Sep 222010
Somewhere there’s an old Stephen King movie called “Thinner” in which this overweight guy learns that making a bunch of gypsies angry can have side effects that are worse than the side effects of diet pills. This results in the head Gypsy whispering an incantation of some sort and whispering the word “Thinner” in the guy’s ear. Starting the next day he finds he’s lost 3 or 4 pounds every day and, after a month or so, gets so thin that it’s absolutely grotesque.
If you can find it on video, this one is definitely worth a watch.
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