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Feb 262011
 

There are several instances in Star Trek where a character makes a comment that they no longer use money in the 23rd century – most notably, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home when Kirk is explaining to his lunch date why she’s getting stck with the bill.

There are also sevreal other instances of a character or group of characters referring to their pay; Kirk, in “The Doomsday Machine”, telling Scotty, “You’ve just earned your pay for the week”, the weekly poker game on TNG‘s Enterprise-D, and anything involving a Ferrengi.

So, the question is, if they don’t use money, what are they exchanging? Dead fish? That’d be one way to get people to stop asking for payday advance loans.

Jan 032011
 

It was on this date in 1993 that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered. The show was a spin-off of Star Trek: The Next Generation and eventually TNG‘s Lt. Worf and Chief O’brian joined the cast.

The show’s best episodes were, arguably, “Trials and Tribble-ations”, in which Captain Cisco and a small party travel back in time and join Kirk’s crew during the episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” and “Little Green Men in which two Ferrengi find themselves transported back to 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico.

Sep 012010
 

There is one thing about every Star Trek series and movie ever made that has always bothered us. It has to do with the outdoor lighting in any of the exterior shots of the Enterprise (ANY Enterprise). It isn’t as obvious in the original series, but anything made afterward shows the ship passing by with a light source illuminating the ship’s exterior.

What we want to know is WHERE is the light source, because you never get a clue where the light is coming from, but in deep space with no nearby stars or planets the exterior shots should be black as midnight, maybe blacker.

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