Ruth Berman either made it up specifically for that list or included it from some fanfic that either she or an acquaintance had written. See where she says:
quote:Many of the names and numbers are autocratic additions, but I have included the aforestated "official" names as well. You are, of course, free to regard this with approval, disapproval, or indifference.
-MMoM Posted by Kenny (Member # 1592) on :
Thanks MMoM for the scans of T-Negative from 1975!
I see it was typed on a manual typwriter! Did they have photocopy machines then?
Is your original a blue mimeograph copy? I remember those (and the smell) from when I was a kid, and at school we'd get worksheets printed out like that. Heaven forbid that you'd get a copy that the teacher ran when the blue ink was almost out.
I had read your earlier thread when you'd found the magazine, but the scans posted there didn't work. So I read the transcript on trekplace.
I'm glad to see the original in all its ancient glory!!
-- Kenny
Posted by machf (Member # 1233) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kenny: I see it was typed on a manual typwriter! Did they have photocopy machines then?
Is your original a blue mimeograph copy? I remember those (and the smell) from when I was a kid, and at school we'd get worksheets printed out like that. Heaven forbid that you'd get a copy that the teacher ran when the blue ink was almost out.
Oh, I remember those days too... and I remember a friend who would sneak into the mimeographer room right after the teacher left to look inside the trashcan and get the questions early in the day, before the time of the exam...
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Either that or you've seen Animal House to many times.
Did anybody else read the 'Klingon Kapstan Chanty'?
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I have a more important question. No, but, like, what's up with the reverse of that first page? WFT?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I'm guessing that's the cover by Connie Faddis. Spock's getting a piece of the action.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Looks like he's giving it to me. Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Hubba-hubba... Oh, you meant that, to you, it looks like he's "giving" a piece of the action. How utterly disappointing.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
It looks like McCoy is supposed to be catching them in the act. Or are we looking at a so-to-be threesome here?
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: I'm guessing that's the cover by Connie Faddis. Spock's getting a piece of the action.
-MMoM Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: Looks like he's giving it to me.
Mmmmm. Perhaps a comma in there wouldn't have gone amis?
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
Well, we weren't going to comment. If you look like chapel, and like wearing that red uniform, who are we to judge!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Damn right! Don't judge me!
On a more serious note, where does the name "Tashik Sotra" come from? I can't find any place, person, or thing with that name.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"If you look like chapel, and like wearing that red uniform..."
Blue, I should think...
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Yeah, and then when Spock does the "Remember" to Bones, he gets a little bonus.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: On a more serious note, where does the name "Tashik Sotra" come from? I can't find any place, person, or thing with that name.
Presumably, it was designed to sound alien in origin, perhaps Vulcan.
-MMoM Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Yes. As bizarre as it may seem for ME to help get a thread back on topic, it does seem odd that, having started with a coupla lists of names from Justman and Fontana, and the list of registries from "Court Martial" (from a film loop he managed to obtain! Ah, 'tis quaint. . .), he then puts them together by a convoluted but logical method, and finishes off with a huge list which leaves out several of the more unusual naming choices in favour of Tashik-Sotra, which comes out of nowehere.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Again, the list at the end including the Tashik-Sotra was NOT Jein's creation but part of Ruth Berman's addendum to the article.
Ruth Berman either made it up specifically for that list or included it from some fanfic that either she or an acquaintance had written. See where she says:
quote:Many of the names and numbers are autocratic additions, but I have included the aforestated "official" names as well. You are, of course, free to regard this with approval, disapproval, or indifference.
-MMoM
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
And she's from crazy-town. As illustrated above.
So forgive my ignorance about what precisely we are discussing here, but are we conjecturing about the size of star fleet at the time of "Court Martial"? (i.e. 12 starships) Twelve is a larger number than you think it is. Or is this merely the number of Constitution class ships (where there would be a bunch of more rinky-dink ships too)?
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
quote:Twelve is a larger number than you think it is.
Shit.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
How much larger is twelve than I think it is? Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
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