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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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I don't know if Guinan ever had a metal rollerdoor. Bet she wished she did! Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Shave the Whales!
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
oh there's a copyrightht infringement lawsuit waiting to happen
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
How about the Boeing Bird of Prey?
Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :
Well we have seen the creation of a Tricorder, a Hypospray, and a Phaser rifle. I want a replicator next!
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Well, like I posted way back when, here is one of the first screenshots of the night sky in a portion of the now-famous MMORPG "Second Life":
I would really like to know the story behind it. Needless to say, the Nerd is strong in this one.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
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.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
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. . .
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Who knew Swedish bus seats were covered in soft Corinthian leather...?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
My TV remote kinda looks like a TNG phaser. Unfortunately I have no way of sending a picture of it to you guys.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
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:
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.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
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.
Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :
A shipment of grain... and a single Tribble.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
My God, this thread is only seven months old, I'd have sworn I started it sometime last year. . . I guess I should be encouraged that this year has gone so subjectively slowly, the years have tended to zip by of late.
Anyway, that pic reminds me of a tourist coach I saw in London, a few years back. I remember posting about it at Adam Bauer's old board (I tyhink it was when I was in exile). This coach, it was from Germany or somewhere, and had a rough rendering of the E-D, but with only one central nacelle (where the third one would go in the "AGT..." version). It was a beautiful piece of work, I wish I'd been able to snap it but this was in the days before camera phones.
Posted by HerbShrump (Member # 1230) on :
It was a lot clearer in person. My camera phone isn't that great for a camera.
This wasn't something that had the same shape as the TOS Enterprise, it WAS the TOS Enterprise.
And maybe it didn't have any direct connection...
LOL @ the grain and tribble comment.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
I hate camera phones. Can't get a decent phone without a camera in it anymore. Working for a major aerospace company, obviously I'm not allowed to bring cameras in to work.
.....sorry, rant over. Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
About the clause with Treknology; I've read in several places that Paramount (not Gene) won't prosecute for copyright or trademark violation if it's an actual working piece of technology modeled after Trek...hence tricorders, phasers, warp drive *snort*
I remember some guy somewhere creating a tricorder out of a prop case, injection-molded plastic I think, and packing it with off-the-shelf sensors and a microcontroller. Haven't seen it in a long time, but it would be cool to have one.
Also, about that article about transparent aluminum starting "a long time ago in a galaxy not so far away" ... does that piss anyone else off? A wry *Star Wars* reference in relation to a *Star Trek* piece of trivia? Maybe I'm just �bernerd...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I saw one of these today:
And for some reason it reminded me of:
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Well, look, every time I start my car, I imagine engine pods coming out the rear sides like a puddle jumper. I guess we've all got our queer fanboyish spaceship connections...
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
For the last ten years I've seen this sealed garbage chute lid in my building. Anyone care to guess what I'm seeing every time?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
The escape hatch in Star Trek 4? A jeffries tube? My wahing machine? The imaging chamber from Enterprise?
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Torpedo Tube from a WW2 submarine.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Jettison tube for a phaser on overload. C'mon, now!
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
And you guys call yourself *********-*******ers. Sheesh!
Maybe easier this way on your squishy thinking-meats.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I thought it looked like the imaging chamber hatch too.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
First clue, then. Gore?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
It looks like the saucer section of an Excelsior-class ship, but with a thingy on the front (the lever).
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
That's no lever...that the "Kirk class" PROBE.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Finally.
DannyBoy wins some cookies and a ticket to Snarf - The Musical. He came closest without going over.
Wizartist:
quote:That's no lever...that the "Kirk class" PROBE.
It's too big to be a "Kirk class" PROBE!&
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Yayyy cookies! And cache coherency!
Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on :
What class is that? Looks mostly Excelsior, but that saucer looks weird...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
That would be an Excelsior class. With an excelsior saucer-shaped hatch replacing the saucer. If you look closely, you'll see the mooring for a Riker class probe. It is slightly bigger, and comes pre installed with more facial hair and less speech impediments than a kirk class probe Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Oh- wait... I'm schorry guys (TSN, Sol 'n turf), I didn't mean to say the Excelsior should be thrown down a garbage chute... I meant to show it could be depicted AS a garbage chute.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Dude, that looks nothing like the saucer. And everything like a jettison tube hatch.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Kinda looks like the supercharger thingies on the NX-class....
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I'm not shure when or where, but I have seen something like that as like a hatch to a criogenic chamber. It actually looks like autoclave from M*A*S*H.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Oh, tell me I didnt spell sure with an "h". *Begins to hit self on head with webster's dictionary.*
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Shik:
quote:Dude, that looks nothing like the saucer. And everything like a jettison tube hatch.
Nope, it does look like an excelsior saucer, that's the only reason I started thinking it looked like an excelsior saucer, duh! If it hadn't, I wouldn't (have). Use your imagination, not Silicon Graphics image-matching hardware.
Sean: No need to kick yourself, we will not track down and hurt you for any of the first ten (10) spelling errors you make here, relax! That's a long ways away.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Woman, you are completely off your nut.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
But you're the one going around claiming people's subjective opinions about something is "wrong", emo. Go ahead, post a pic of that jettison thing if you're so sure, contribute a bit.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah, can't find it.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Hey, you're forgetting the cookie winner, here. I thought it looked like that before Nim said anything, so that's 2v1 so far.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Ginger snaps or or white chocolate hazelnut chunk?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I made Snickerdoodles.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
*claps* Snickerdoodles! The first and only cookie I've ever made from scratch.
I made lembas once, though. I felt like *such* a dork, especially since I was sad I didn't have any mallorn leaves to wrap them in.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I think the lembas in the movies looked nice but were too crumbly*? (*spoken with an upwards inflection) If I where one of the cookie convention nerds, I'd say that that crumbleness points to high fiber content, and a fibery cookie is extremely low in energy, it just takes energy to digest fiber. So nothing for hikers, there.
The ones in my mind would've been tougher to chew, slightly like power bars of gas station fame. Maybe with a small core of some tasty and energy-giving fat.
Wonder how they would taste with a side of G'agh.
Call me old-fashioned but in that episode where Riker is to be an exchange student on a Bird of Prey, and is buffing up on klingon food in the galley, I actually thought it looked quite tasty, all that stuff he was putting away.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
No, I really wanna try some of those things. Maybe not live, though.
Posted by HerbShrump (Member # 1230) on :
I made Soylent Green cookies but they turned out to be more big fat cubes then thin wafers.
Mmmm.... Soylent Green ::salivate::
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Well, to drag the topic screaming, crying and peeing back on topic, I had a talk with my shareholders today and we brainstormed forth just why my chute lid looks like an Excelsior saucer.
Points Of Reference: 1: Of all saucer designs in canon Star Trek, the Excelsior's is the only one that is pefectly circular, with a convex, tapering edge AND a totally flat underside. I saw that the lid had these properties (and more!). 2: The impulse engines of the Excelsior are the largest and widest on any Starfleet ship, in proportion to the saucer size. I could see the shapes in the lid immediately, which leads to the next phase:
The Hinges: A New Hope The hinges on my chute lid don't look exactly like either the Excelsior's impulse engines nor the 1701-B refit's, but takes cues from both of them; they are as wide as the refit's but as tall and deep as the Excelsior's.
Those where the only things that caught my eye about the whole thing, just like I swore in the congressional hearing.
Controversy erupts - A handle?: Was there a handle on the thing? Through a near-herculean effort I managed to ignore the lid-handle in the process, not giving any thought or importance to it at all. Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I remember in Home and careers, we had to do a cooking unit. I made arguably the best cookies according to the teacher.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Does this mean we are going to go look for a dead kid next to the train tracks now, cherishing the last innocent summer of our lives?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Why would he be there. I thought I hid his body by the old mill? Crap, I shouldn't have said that. * Runs like hell*
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I made a Lego model of the Excelsior-class once. It was really very good, except for the nacelles (it was a very small model, only about 5 inches, which means the nacelles had to be rectangular prisms). I wish it hadn't been smashed or that I still had the picture. I cheated and glued some parts on, though, because they wouldn't *stay where I stuck them*.
The saucer wasn't perfectly round, either, but the impulse engines were the right shape - which is what made the hatch look so Excelsior-ish to me.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I used to make lego starship models too. I made what I thought looked like a refit connie, and even used a sharpie to draw in torp tubes. Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
So I was on the A419 near Swindon the other day, and I saw this:
Of course, maybe it's just me...
(I didn't take a picture, but a Google Street View capture shows it nicely)
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Either the street map sign thingy makes you think of a starship on a stick, or else the building behind looks like the innards of the Excelsior undercut at the aft bottom of the secondary hull, turned upside down.
Or you have done too much LDS.
Or I have.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
(it's the street sign)
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Well its not Star Trek, but seeing as how a new Fallout game is coming, I thought it was interesting when I saw this.
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Bet she wished she did! 
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