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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
-Layton
Do I think it is wrong? No, within reason. It's something writers have done since storytelling began. It allows an author to thematically progress further then the alluded-to author was able to in his or her own work. Allusions are a mark of attempted progress, not a simple money-making scheme. The line is crossed to plagiarism when the previous work is reproduced with no credit given to the previous author as a method of making profit off another's work. That's not what Star Trek has done; it is simply revisiting old themes and using prior work as a basis for literary development.
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"Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survivial or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed."
"...attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 6th century B.C.E.
Khan was a well-read superman. Just as Picard is well-read now. They know what to say for the appropriate occasion.
Personally, as an English major and creative writer, the more literary allusions I find in a work, the more interesting. Especially if they're obscure.
I'm reading a comic entitled "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" set in late 19th Century London.
Main Characters:
Wilhemina Murray (nee Harker)
Alan Quatermain
Captain Nemo
Dr. Stephen Jeckyl / Henry Hyde
And the Invisible Man (whose character name I forget)
and there have been appearances by
Auguste Dupin
Campion Bond
Pollyanna
and the mysterious "Mr. M" whom Bond works for, and whom Ms. Harker suspects is Mycroft Holmes. (Hmm, a man named Bond working for a man called "M"...)
as well as others and other things too numerous to recall, but including:
(gunfire-like explosions on Mars)
(Cavorite)
etc...
fascinating
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You're just JEALOUS because the little voices talk to ME!
[This message was edited by First of Two on May 20, 1999.]
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Garak: "I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences." (DS9: "Cardassians")
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"I haven't done any research, but I think the Defiant is 170m."
-Frank Gerratana
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PARTURITION
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"You can't catch me where I'm gonna fall. You can't catch me where I'll hide. This world's too cold, this Nova rolls. I'm moving to the sun."
--
They Might Be Giants
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What bloke invented signatures?
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"No, thanks. I've had enough. One more cup and I'll jump to warp." (Janeway, asked if she would like some coffee in "Once upon a Time")
www.uni-siegen.de/~ihe/bs/startrek/
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The public has spoken. Common sense has prevailed. We have been returned what was wrongly taken away from us. All hail COCO POPS!!
"Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!"
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"Should have changed that stupid lock. Should have thrown away the key. No no, not I, I will survive, right down here on my knees."
--
They Might Be Giants
COC part 2 was about a man striving to remain sane in the face of torture. 1984 does not own the copyright on torture things. There is a similarity in what Smith wrote in his diary 'Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4'. I don't remember the finger thing though.
And Amnesty Internation advised on the torture stuff. I don't think they got their info from 1984 did they?
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'His limbs flail about as if independent from his body!'
-Chandler Bing on Michael Flatley.
How do we know that Holmes isn't an ancestor of Spock? All we know is that Spock's mother Amanda is human and NOTHING else about that side of his family.
BTW, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I'M OUT OF SCHOOL FOR THE SUMMER AND CAN COME IN HERE AND SCARE PEOPLE AGAIN!!!
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Brandon "Enterprise" Grasmick
Commanding Officer, USS Sovereign (NX-74222)
"Captain, the Sona crew are willing to negotiate a cease fire. It may have something to do with the fact that we have 3 minutes of air left."
-- Worf
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
-- In time of war the law falls silent.
I never got to finish 1984. just going by what I read. Sounds like they took it almost word for word.
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WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE
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'His limbs flail about as if independent from his body!'
-Chandler Bing on Michael Flatley.
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Garak: "I do apologize. You must be incensed. In fact, if I were in your shoes, I'd... grab a bottle of champagne and shoot me." (DS9: "Our Man Bashir")
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What bloke invented signatures?