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Every so often I see an instance of the way Star Trek has, if you will, penetrated the zeitgeist. Here are a couple. . .
At the Bristol Eye Hospital; we were there late one night because my wife had a horrible pain in her eye, similar to when she'd scratched her cornea. Turned out she had a tiny metal splinter embedded! Anyway, I was staring at this mural done in the waiting area, it's an eye but it's also meant to be a planet with speceships flying around. One took my notice. . .
Parked outside the only Pharmacy in Bristol open on Easter Sunday, I spotted a sandwich bar called Ten Forward (I should have gotten out of the car and taken a closer shot, but I had Lula in there with me).
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oh there's a copyrightht infringement lawsuit waiting to happen
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Well we have seen the creation of a Tricorder, a Hypospray, and a Phaser rifle. I want a replicator next!
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Also, but this can't be backed up by image evidence because of the lack of camera phones at the time (1997), but I was on the bus on my way home to catch TOS on a sunday afternoon. I looked forward and saw the name "Ricardo Montalban" etched into the back of the seat in front of me.
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I also have a mini-vacuum cleaner thing (for cleaning the insides of PC cases, my mother keeps giving em them for Christmas, God knows why, at work we just have compressed-air dusters to blow the crap out) which resembles a late-TNG/DS9/Voy-era phaser more than a little. I keep forgetting to get a photo of it. . .
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My TV remote kinda looks like a TNG phaser. Unfortunately I have no way of sending a picture of it to you guys.
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quote:Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: oh there's a copyrightht infringement lawsuit waiting to happen
Not necessarily - I remember reading an article in a magazine way back when about some agricultural scientists making a working "Mark I" tricorder - it was a sort of all-in-one sensor pack to use out in the field. Supposedly Gene Roddenberry made some clause that copyright had to be given to people who invented technology that - how would you put it - brought us closer to trek tech.
BTW - this is the correct address for the first link:
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TSN: Oh I'll show you leather. I swear to god one of these days I'm just gonna be there, stabbing you in the shower with a rolled-up newspaper.
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I was running errands with my wife yesterday. One of the places we stopped was a bakery outlet store. As we were going inside I started pointing and saying "Look! Look!" My wife was like "What?" when she turned around and saw what I was pointing at:
I'd love to know what the semi was carrying.
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