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# Gene Rodenberry's wife discovers early plans...

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(I helped save b3ta! thirty dirty birds, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:27, archived)
# AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgh!
Geek humour!!
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:28, archived)
# Am I being thick...
or not geeky enough
but where's the humour?

I should point out that I am not a fan of that derivative, unrealistic, US-foreign-policy wank that is StarTreck & all of it's spinnoffs
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:33, archived)
# I like Star Trek and I have looked and looked
and I too can't see a gag anywhere for parsecs and parsecs
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:35, archived)
# good point
well put
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:35, archived)
# You are a little....go on admit it to yourself...
Acceptance is the first step my friend...
But Iim not sure what the humour is either.
(I helped save b3ta! thirty dirty birds, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:36, archived)
# Asteroids
.
(I helped save b3ta! thethingfromanotherworld, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:44, archived)
# I've tried
God knows, I've tried...
Examples;
All space aliens speak (US)English... Why?
Why do space aliens have two arms, legs, eyes etc in the normal (for us) way? (ok, ok... most- don't bring tribbles up again)

It seems that all space aliens of the same species have the same characteristics; klingons are warriors, those sneaky (Jewish?) ones from DS9, etc. That's like saying all humans have the same charecteristics...
(I helped save b3ta! Duncan Disorderly, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:49, archived)
# "All space aliens speak (US)English... Why?"
The ships have magic translator donkeys.

Why do space aliens have two arms, legs, eyes etc in the normal (for us) way?
Actors with more than two arms, legs etc are few and far between and prosthetic versions of extra limbs, eyes etc are a tad too expensive for TV.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:57, archived)
# But yes it is very America-centric.

Wankers.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:58, archived)
# I found it amusing
when in one of the films they started rubbishing communist books.

The undiscovered country's end speech by the chancellor guy or kirk I forget which, mentions the end of history, which is coincidently a title of a book on communism...

/Geekiness
(I helped save b3ta! Lethe is carrying a spade. SPANG., Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:45, archived)
# yay
i love star trek!
(I helped save b3ta! Lord_Munkee, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:29, archived)
# Just been watching Voyager on Sky 1
Though I prefer Next Gen, especially Inner Light. I think I said that once today already...
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:32, archived)
# i love TNG but the best ones
ones are the ones with Q ! i love John De Lancie..
(I helped save b3ta! Lord_Munkee, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:36, archived)
# Q Who?
Aha! I got a Trek gag there! Oh my aching sides...

Inner Light is best cos it's very gentle. And everyone agreed back in 93-94 when the series ended.
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:41, archived)
# Oooooooooohhhhhhhh!
I like that!
(I helped save b3ta! pxyzyzygy, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:31, archived)
# You sir
are incorrect.

The registry NCC-1701 belongs to the USS Enterprise whereas the hull you have pictured is clearly that of Voyager whose registry is NCC-74656.

/B3ta Data
(Fellmeister, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:36, archived)
# that is a fine bit of error
spotting there.
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:37, archived)
# You Sir are a Hoot!
Thats damn funny!
(I helped save b3ta! thirty dirty birds, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:38, archived)
# Enterprise under Kirk too
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:44, archived)
# Oh but of course....
/deep breath

The registry NCC-1701 has been held by the first USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike and then Captain James Tiberius Kirk. It was then retained when the ship was refitted to coincide with the start of the first motion picture called, erm, The Motion Picture. When the original Enterprise was destroyed under by Kirk in ST III: Search for Spock, Starfleet renamed, and re-registered, the USS Yorktown NCC-1717 to bear the moniker USS Enterprise with the registration NCC-1701-A.

Subsequent registrations and comanders are as follows:

NCC-1701-B : Captain John Harriman. Seen at start of Star Trek : Generations.
NCC-1701-C : Captain Rachel Garrett. Seen in ST:TNG episode 'Yesterdays Enterprise' with Shooter McGavin as her Number One. Arf.
NCC-1701-D : Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Destroyed by Nexus/The petulent boy Riker in Star Trek : Generations
NCC-1701-E : Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Still going...

/edit just so you know, I looked all this up in the Star Trek Encyclopedia which i'm referencing in my dissertation on Artificial intelligence...
(Fellmeister, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 19:02, archived)
# I'm
not too keen on Star Trek, but that's very clever!
(I helped save b3ta! thethingfromanotherworld, Thu 24 Apr 2003, 18:36, archived)