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Starfleet fitness program

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Feb 222011
 

Have you ever noticed that in every incarnation of Star Trek, whenever a hostile alien tries to take over the ship the first thing they do is cut off life support to the bridge? Have you also noticed that once life support is restored, usually at the last possible second, everyone is fine except for these huge sweat stains on their uniforms?

Those sweat stains would mean that their body temperature has gone up. Based on an article at thermogenesis.org, as often as that happens, nobody whose post is on the bridge should have any trouble with their weight.

In reality, once life support is cut off, the bridge area should be getting colder since the heating system is off.

The Doctor forgot something

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Nov 092010
 

There is an episode of Star Trek The Animated Series called “The Terratin Incident” in which all the crew members of the Enterprise begin shrinking. They eventually shrink down to less than a half inch tall, well past the point of being able to control the ship.

It brings to mind a question that had never occurred to us in the last 40 years or so. In all the gadgets in doctor McCoy’s sickbay, we never once saw a scale or a stadiometer (that’s the tool usually attached to a doctor’s scale to measure height). How does the good doctor keep track of his patients’ weight and height without these items?

Where is the light coming from?

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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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But, nobody ever really said that

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May 222010
 

The one quote you hear associated with Star Trek‘s original series more than any other is, “Beam Me Up, Scotty”. The problem is that nobody in the original series, the animated series, or the movies ever said that.

In the Original Series episodes “The Gamesters of Triskelion” and “The Savage Curtain“, Kirk said, “Scotty, beam us up”.

In the animated episodes “The Lorelei Signal” and “The Infinite Vulcan“, he said, “Beam us up, Scotty”.

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk says, “Beam me up, Mr. Scott” and, “Scotty, beam me up.”

In Star Trek Generations the captain says, “Scotty, beam them out of there.”

Long after the phrase was permanently embedded in pop culture, it did eventually get some actual Star Trek related use, however.

William Shatner eventually used those exact words in the audio adaptation of his novel Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden.

James Doohan later chose to title his autobiography, “Beam Me Up, Scotty.”

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