Treknicalities

Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be a celebrity? Seriously, while the money must be pretty nice, I would imagine that it must be pretty awkward being recognized in public everywhere you go. And, there’s also the added awkwardness if you happen to be a female celebrity. How do you think Jeri Ryan or Jolene Blalock feel about having their pictures adorning the inside of high school gym lockers or set as desktop wallpapers across the world?

Personally, I think obscurity sounds pretty good.

We were talking about the first part of the movie Star Trek: Generations where Worf and then Dr. Crusher end up going for an involuntary swim in the holodeck-generated ocean and someone asked a very interesting question.

It’s obvious that the water is cold. Why didn’t they just include a giant pool heat pump in the program?

It can’t be because they didn’t expect anyone to land in the water, because Riker made the comment that nobody had ever successfully jumped from the wooden plank without landing in the water.

Maybe they were going more for realism than comfort. What do you think?

I spent some time this morning looking at various sites featuring funny tshirts. I was looking primarily for shirts with a Star Trek theme, because, well, that’s what we do here. There were the classic TOS uniform shirts, a red shirt that says, “Expendable” accross the front, and, my personal favorite, a blue shirt featuring a star field with the words, “%20, the final frontier”.

A pun that involves Star Trek and HTML. How cool is that?