Maybe being aware of 20th Century history will also help understand the historical context of what goes on in the Star Trek universe, hmmmm?
And also pull in the viewers.
Someone started a conversation just like this over on the "Voyager" board...I thought it'd be fun to do the same thing here....
1. Yeoman must wear micro-mini skirts, B-57 hair-do's and no bra.
2. Any woman may enter the Captain's quarters...just as long as the press the "Beautiful Babe Bypass Button" [BBBB]
3. Ambassadors are always grouchy.
4. NEVER let a paper pushing, desk hugging commodore take command of your ship.
5. Your communications officer must wear panties that is at least 2 sizes small for her.
6. Gawking when people are in trouble is considered acceptable behavior.
7. Starship captains are never allowed to fraternize with their female counterparts but it is permissable to fraternize with alien or android women.
8. When Scotty breaks something, it can never be fixed. When Scotty fixes something, it can never be broken.
9. Redshirts are expendable.
10. Your chief medical officer must let at least 10 patients die per year.
11. Your CMO is a doctor, not anything else!
12. Everything was inwented in Russia.
13. Balok's scary puppet head wasn't quite as scary as the real deal.
14. Eden must be on some planet somewhere; you're just not looking hard enough.
15. Don't let a 20th century warlord have full access to ship records.
16. Evil computers with the power to control entire planets can be disabled by being told how irrational they're being.
17. Captain Kirk's jumping drop-kick always leaves him immobilized on the ground for at least 10 seconds.
18. Only a younger or stronger (real or imagined) Kirk rival is allowed to rip Kirk's tunic. (with the single exception of McCoy)
19. Only gentle prodding from Spock will cause Kirk to realize the correct solution to the current crisis.
20. Insightful retrospection is only allowed after ALL the bad guys are dead or properly subdued.
21. Tribbles are nothing but trouble.
22. "Just oiling my traps, darling."
Let's be frank here. This show is 35 years old this year. So what do we really remember about it? Everything! That's why we are on this board.
Also, horrible 1960's hair styles will return in the 23rd century.
23. Alien women are scantly clad and easy to seduce.
24. It's acceptable to gamble the fate of your entire ship's crew with 3 disembodied brains.
25. "Hailing frequencies are open."
26. The transporter should hiccup once every so often.
27. If you see a man in the rec room looking rather disheveled...ignore him...he's only there to steal your dilithium crystals...that's all.
28. "Just like Earth" planets are EVERYWHERE!
Re #28, Shatner/J&GRS's "Preserver" discusses the "Just Like Earth" syndrome. And yes, I know it's not canon.
29. You can hear the current warp factor.
30. Having is not as pleasing a thing after all, as wanting!
31. Your Science Officer may be a Vulcan,have a mind like a computer, but still you can kick his butt in Tri-mentional chess.
32. The only true diplomacy is a fully charged phasor bank, a fully loaded photon tube or a clenched fist.
33. Female Romulan Commanders wear Go-Go boots.
34. Obeying the Prime Directive is optional.
35. No matter what planet they're from, kids act like brats.
36. Omnipotent beings ain't what they used to be....omnipotent!
37. Dealing with real mud is not as messy as dealing with Harry Mudd.
38. A Klingon engine room is the perfect storage space for your excess tribbles.
38. Stardates are NOT convertable into 20th century clocks and months.
39. If Kirk can talk a computer to death, imagine what he'd be like as a Jehovah's Witness at your front door.
40. There's a way out of any cage, and Pike will find it.
41. Just sitting living and reliving other lives isn't so different from watching reruns on tv, so leave the Talosians alone!
41. Despite the rumor, Vulcans lie.
42. NO KILL I is too ambiguous! Talk gooder Inglish, Mama Horta!
43. McCoy only peaks in the Line Of Duty.
44. Chekov came to the Enterprise looking like one of his favorite classical musicians; Davey Jones.
45. Kirk is a little green man from Alpha Centauri-- a beautiful place, you must see it!
46. FIZZBIN!!
47. "It is green"
48. It is acceptable to ride your first officer like a donkey when under the control of superior beings.
49. Kirk survived everything from encounters with gods to Klingon conspiracies and yet a collapsing bridge is what did him in.
50. The Enterprise is ALWAYS the only ship in range.
51. STARFLEET GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 12453: Beaming down to a planet and THEN scanning it to see if it is safe is perfectly acceptable.
52. "Sometimes you just have to punch your way through." (Janeway- "Parallax": Although this should have been a Kirk line)
53. "I'm a doctor not a __________ despite my constant absence from sickbay."
54. Kirk is responsible for the death of at least two people since he did not raise his shields according to regulations, yet he is commended. (ST:II) Kirk is court-martialed because he responsible for the death of one person. (Court Martial)
55. Evil beings will have red eyes, black clothes, sinister beards or some other defining characteristic that allows them to be quickly identified as the villian.
TUE
56. Miniskirts that would give a 20th-century woman a horrible reputation are considered a mark of the highly trained professional in the 23rd century. (Erin Brockovich - centuries ahead of her time!)
57. Despite having devoted vast chunks of their lives to struggling through Starfleet Academy, working their way up to a posting on the finest ship in the fleet, and facing all kinds of unknowns that will take everything they've got mentally and physically...all 23rd-century women really want to do is find a nice man/superman/god figure and settle down (or at the very least serve him coffee.)
58. Wounded cadets should be brought to the Bridge [STII]
59. Women from the "Mirror Universe" look yummier.
60. "Captain, Look at my legs." [Miri]
61. Drinking alien beverages is always safe.
62. The Corbomote Manuver [R]
63. The Tellarites need help with their faces
64. Regulations? What are they?
65. It's ok to stop and examine a quasar effect even though thousands of people are dying on a planet far away.
66. The Federation needs primitive planets for their supplies.
67. The people of Gamma Trianguli VI look like Suntan Malibu Barbie & Suntan Malibu Ken. [The Apple]
68. Boy, that Mr.Leslie can talk and talk and talk!
69. Even if you're a mass-murderer like Kodos, it's a good idea to stay in the public eye as an actor, and not bother hacking into a computer to create a fake early life to cover your tracks.
70. We love City On The Edge Of Forever the way it is; deal with it Harlan Ellison!
71. "Brain and Brain! What is brain?!"
72. "I'll take you home, Kathleeeeeeeeen!"
73. Khan's 'pets'.
74. Always exaggerate how long it will take to fix something, so you'll be seen as a miracle worker.
75. "She canna take much more o' this, cap'n!"
76. Objects and people from the 20th century are always dangerous.
77. Vulcans DO show emotions when in Pon Farr, infected by spores or forced on by alien entitites.
78. If at first you don't get a response to your hail...try, try again.
79. Until Starfleet gets a Ship's Counselor, the sliding doors are there for your emotional support..use them. ["The Naked Time"]
80. Scotty, you're fired! (and rehired).
77-A. Alien viruses like the one on PSI 2000 will force Vulcans to show emotions too.
81. The Galileo Shuttlecraft is immortal.
82. Leering at gorgeous women is acceptable.
83. Charlie Evans is the luckiest man in the universe...he got to touch Rand's butt.
84. Alt-Sulu is the luckiest man in the "Mirror Universe", he got to touch Uhura and pull her close.
85. The Captain MUST be the one that seduces all of the women.
86. The only way to deal with an crabby woman is with a right cross. [Friday's Child]
87. Miranamee's Planet watched "Star Trek"...that's how the obelisk "knew" what a communicator chirp sounded like.
88. If your first officer gets his brains stolen, hook up a device to his head and march him around like a robot.
89. Nobody imitates or makes a duplicate of Kirk for good purposes, like charity work or house-cleaning.
90. The Enterprise represents the best in Starfleet, but possesses only a single visible alien.
91. McCoy was the only one who got it RIGHT when he thought about who he'd like to see on the Shore Leave planet.
92. We'd all like a crack at that Shore Leave planet!
93. Fortunately every time travel story involves the United States, and not India, Mongolia, Russia or Borneo.
>93. Fortunately every time travel story involves the United States, and not India, Mongolia, Russia or Borneo.>
That happens a lot on Quantium Leap, too. In fact, I can't think of any time Sam leaped into another country. It would be funny to see Sam and Al try to have a conversation in a forign language like French or Japanesse.
94. Starfleet uniforms must have ultra absorbent adult diapers (with deodorant) as nobody ever goes to the bathroom on a starship.
95. Kirk looks good in a 20th century suit. ("Piece of the Action," "Assignment Earth".)
96. Spock, ditto.
97. The turbo lift to the bridge NEVER malfunctions.
98. Certain Yeomen shall never have names or serial numbers. [Court Martial]
99. You can alter a computer playback by tampering with the chess program.
100. Women shall serve as striptease dancers to create a diversion during rescue missions [STV]
101. The same room decoration (console, etc.) will turn up on a half-dozen different planets. Must all buy from the same store.
102. Cloning exists. How else could Dr. Miranda Jones look and sound like Dr. Ann Mulhall? Or, how could Mr. Leslie die in one ep and be healthy as a horse in the next?
103. "Captain, you are an excellent starship commander...but as a taxi driver you leave much to be desired." (Piece of the Action)
104. "Shut up, Spock! We're rescuing you!" "Thank you...Captain McCoy." (Immunity Syndrome)
105. Kirk: "Oh, I heard you..." Spock: "He simply could not believe his ears." (Trouble With Tribbles)
106. "He's dead, Jim." (many, many episodes)
107. Big, butt-ugly, acid-spraying rock creatures generally turn out to be all warm and fuzzy on the inside - while outwardly cute little warm fuzzies might as WELL be spraying acid for all the trouble they cause.
108. The amount of angst the Prime Directive causes in theory is directly proportional to how easy it is to break it in reality.
109. Dr. McCoy is a doctor. He isn't a coal miner or an escalator or a magician.
110. Feeding a tribble too much will NOT get you a fat tribble.
109. Dr. McCoy is a doctor. He isn't a coal miner or an escalator or a magician. - Ccabe.
Or a bricklayer, engineer, officer of the line, moon shuttle conducter, mechanic or flesh-peddler.
Or a psychologist, if I recall correctly. But he is an expert in space psychology, so which is it?
111. Non-corporeal entities are either extremely good or extremely evil...there is no "in between"
112. Letting a non-corporeal entity to possess your body is hazardous to your health.
113. It's ok to barge in on a woman if she's in the sonic shower...and then dress her in a mini-skirt and high heels.
114. Science vessels make lousy combat vessels (STIII)
115. If one photon torpedo hits your most advanced ship, it's helpless. (STVI--Excelsior)
116. All starship deliveries are made on Tuesday.
117. Never allow a stranger in your sickbay access to your ship's schematics.
118. It's OK to shout back & forth on the Bridge...especially if the music is too loud.(Where No Man...,Corbomite Manuver)
119. Giving a hand signal to the Captain to notify him that warp drive has been reached is acceptable behavior. (The Cage)
120. The unexplained change from lithium crystals to dilithium crystals within the show. (not the encylopedia)
121. The Enterprise's food dispensers appear to dispense Soylent Green at times.
122. Captain Kirk is obviously a witch of some kind; after all, he talks to Bones...
123. Parellel planets save the studio unnecessary wardrobe budget hikes.
124. "400 quatloos on the newcomer..." Da da DA DA DA da da DA...
125. Starfleet uniforms can change colors and style at random (Charlie X)
126. Don't pass along the technology of using "repel" on the tractor beam or transferring the warp power to supplement the shields to the next generation...let them figure it out themselves or get a smart-alecy doctor's kid to figure it out.
127. Self-destruct is only necessary when dealing with
bi-chromatic races or Klingons...but not Kelvans.
128. Starfleet personnel can show up in other places on your Starship under different names.
129. Only the Captain is allowed to "hog" the camera
130) "I am Khan Noonien Singh. Please sit and entertain me."
131) If you can't beat them... confuse them. (I, Mudd and By Any Other Name)
132) Never interrupt the Captain while he is undergoing a dramatic pause complete with begging-arms pose.
133) Three words to learn if you want to be a communications officer of tomorrow: Hailing. Frequencies. Open.
134) Always hire a tailor on board a starship. You never know when your trousers are going to split... (The Savage Curtain)
135) Always know your Earth literature, even if you are not a human. You will be tested at some point. (Most of the movies)
136) Be aware of Earth history, especially that of the 20th Century. Chances are, you'll end up there some day. (This really applies to all series - perhaps not TNG)
137) Captain Kirk is not a Denebian Slime Devil.
138) If you really want to kill Kirk, get him alone first. (ST5)
139) Unless they have "professional musician" on their resumee, never, EVER, allow a Starfleet officer to break into song. Failure to adhere to this will result in eternal excoriation by the music "press". (Uhura is the only exception to this rule for TOS)
When did DS9 officers ever end up in the 20th Century?
Remember the ep in which Sisko had to impersonate a homeless leader during a riot? Kira and O'Brien went off to find him, except they didn't know which era to look in, so they narrowed it down to a few (including, IIRC, '60's New York) and went hopping thru history.
140. The Captain should always parade down the hall with his shirt off.
141. Forget the female crew members, go for the alien babes! (Especially the green ones)
142. Using a "first name basis" is acceptable when addressing the Captain.
143. Bigotry is unwelcome on the Bridge, but acceptable in the phasor control room. (Balance of Power)
144. Even though you have a transporter, risking one of your shuttlecrafts is permissable.
145. Security will be lax at all times, especially if there are diplomats aboard. (Journey to Babel, et al)
Yeah..but big deal. Most of that two parter was set in the 21rst century.
They did, however still travel to the 20th century, so it is still valid. Thats like saying, "Yeah..but big deal. Most of the time spent on the lunar missions was on this side of the moon, so they didn't go past it."
Okay, tell me how being aware of Earth history helped them in the 1 minute or so that they were in the 20th century?
And if you want to play this game, it's like saying, "Be aware of Japanese history even though you are just going to stop over at a Japanese airport to take another plane to somewhere else."
Then again, being aware of 20th Century history needn't mean actually being there. Tom Paris of Voyager certainly knows his stuff. And what about Vic Fontaine....
Maybe being aware of 20th Century history will also help understand the historical context of what goes on in the Star Trek universe, hmmmm?
And also pull in the viewers.
Oh yeah, don't forget two vital episodes:
"Far Beyond The Stars"
"Little Green Men"
In case you're still wondering:
a) Sisko, a Starfleet Officer, keeps getting visions in his head of 20th Century Earth life, especially from the viewpoint of a black sci-fi writer in the 1950s. And he sort-of knew what was where, how to live - it was all very strange.
b) One of the Ferengi captured by the US Military (no, in fact it didn't happen. It was a crashed weather balloon) was a Starfleet cadet-to-be. And besides, Ferengi know a lot about Earth culture...
Going the Vic Fontaine argument, I suppose TNG is also included - 11001001, The Big Goodbye, Manhunt, Emergence...
It's all training for the real thing, you see...
Perhaps the 24th Century Starfleet has learned its lessons from Kirk and co, and now "20th Century Earth History 101" is required reading at the Academy...
Ah ••••! Now I need to find an instance of the TNG cast and the 20th century......Think Think Think...
Well...they did find those frozen 20th century humans ... :p
And they did like to bash us 20th Century humans during season 1 and 2.
The closest I can think of is when they were stranded in "The Royale." Sure, they weren't in the 20th century, but they WERE trapped in a recreation of something from the 20th century.
146."Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, claw our way out, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute, we must march to the sound of drums." (Kirk- This Side of Paradise)
147. ALWAYS listen to young Vulcan Female Cadets when they quote regulations (STTWOK)
148. "Space...the final frontier...."
149. The "SCPIPT SUPERVISOR" mistake during the closing credits that plagued the series for a whopping 13 episodes during the first season.
150. Abe Lincoln will die twice in your American history.
151. Tholians measure time by nanoseconds.
152. Mysteriously drifting starships are inevitably deathtraps and should only be boarded when you need to kick-start an episode.
153. Nazi Germany was a Very Bad Concept. Recreating it on an entire alien planet is an Even Worse Concept.
154. On the other hand, Kirk does make a very convincing Nazi.
155. Addendum to #154: Whenever you try to cope with an historical situation, your First Officer will miss no opportunity to make snarky comments on your efforts.
155. Chekov does not have a brother named Piotr.
156. "Cossack!"
157. The Royal Academy found it first.
158. "FESTIVAL!! FESTIVAL!!"
159. "There are a million things in this universe you can have, and a million you can't. It's no fun facing it but that's the way it is!"
160. When aliens with telekenetic powers are forcing you to kiss your hot-looking communications officer, resist with all your might.
160a. Some rules are meant to be broken.
160b. Especially if that communications officer is wearing a white gown with a plunging neckline!
161. Kirk being forced to go "NEEEEEHHH!" like a horse in 'The Stepchildren Of Plato'. As painful to watch in the 29th sitting as it was the first.
162. McCoy pushing away Gem's help as he lies dying; "I can't take a life, even if it's to save my own!" Kinda leaves a lump in yer throat.
163. "Captain...David is dead." Kirk stumbles back and falls on his rear-end. "Klingon b**tard you killed my son...oohh...KLINGON B**TARD YOU KILLED MY SON! You Klingon b**tard!"
164. "I!...HAVE HAD!...ENOUGH!..OF YOUUUU!!!" Did anyone not cheer as Kruge got the boot?!
165) On a similar vein to #164:
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!"
166) And, of course, the immortal "... well, ah,... double dumb@$$ on you!"
167. "Don't call me Tiny."
168. "I don't like mysteries. They give me a bellyache, and I've got a beauty right now."
169. "Admiral, there be whales here."
170. "Jim. You're name is Jim."
171. "A keyboard. How quaint."
172. "I have been, and alway shall be, your friend."
173. "Guess whos commink to dinner."
173. "I've been dead before."
174. "I've been dead before." Sorry about that, chief.
175. (Scotty mistaking a mouse for a mike): "Hello, Computer."
176. "No, I'm from Iowa. I just work in 'Outer Space.'"
177. The ship uses giant spark-plugs.
178) "... I know this ship like the back of my hand..." ***CLUNK!***
(Oops, sorry... thought this was supposed to be a board for things we'll *remember* about Trek... )
179. You can avoid getting hurt in a bar fight if you run through it like a girl. (Trouble With Tribbles)
180. Ruk picking up and throwing Kirk like he's a Ken doll. Twice! (What Are Little Girls Made Of?)
181. "Yes! Genesis! The name of the place is Genesis! How can you be deaf with ears like that?!" McCoy - Star Trek 3.
181. "Remember." - Star Trek 2 & 3.
Second #181 = #182, shurely?
183) McCoy: "I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day!"
184) Kirk to Spock: "Will you PLEASE... sit down!" (ST:TMP)
185) Christine Chapel's DNA is eternal.
186) You won't see the last of your great foes, even if they do crop up again in "Deep Space Nine".
187) Captain Christopher Pike before the accident. No fun at parties.
188) Captain Christopher Pike after the accident. Definitely breaks the ice at parties. (see "Futurama" )
189) "... to boldly go where no MAN has gone before!"
I don't think we will ever run out of things to remember about TOS...
And I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande!
190) It is acceptable to call space stations along the neutral zone "earth outposts" even though the Federation is made of many alien species. (see 'Balance of Terror')
191.) "The earthers like these fuzzy things." (The Klingon at the bar, 'The Trouble with Tribbles')
192. Kirk: "You hit the Klingons because they insulted the Enterprise, not because they..."
Scotty: "Well, Captain - this was a matter o' pride!" (Trouble With Tribbles)
193. Vulcans are immune to tribbles' purring. Sort of.
194. "Tell...McCoy...he should have wished me luck." (Immunity Syndrome)
195. Security personnel are REALLY slow on the uptake when it comes to the ol' 'overpower-'em-in-the-corridor-and-steal-a-shuttle/transporter' maneuvre.
196. Digital timekeeping technology? What digital timekeeping technology? We haven't figured out how to make our computers stop whirring, yet!
197. "What is....Exact Change?" (Star Trek IV.)
198. "I can't believe I kissed you!" "Must have been your lifelong ambition." (Trek VI)
199. "We have three days to live over again." "Not those last three days." (Naked Time)
200. "You're not of the body!" (Return Of The Archons.)
201. The transporter always beams up people facing the front, unless they're holding a gun (the guard in Tomorrow is Yesterday) or evil (evil twin Kirk in The Enemy Within, and the Klingons in Day of the Dove), in which case they're beamed up backwards or sideways.
202. Everyone who beams up materializes in a standing position.
203. T'Pau: "Live long and prosper, Spock."
Spock: "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain and my friend." (Amok Time)
204. From the same episode: The look on Spock's face when he realizes that he hasn't, after all, killed Kirk.
205. Marrying a human woman is considered a logical thing to do in the Vulcan culture.
206. McCoy: "Well, whaddaya know - I finally got the last word!" (Journey to Babel)
207. Sulu: "Aha, fair maiden!"
Uhura: "Sorry - neither." (Naked Time)
208) If you think the Federation has it bad with equal rights for women, just wait until you see the Mirror Universe...
209) "PAIIIINNNNN!!!!!" (The Devil In The Dark)
210) McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not an engineer."
Scotty: [having none of that] "Now, you're an engineer!"
211. I....am....Captain....Kirk!!!!!!!!!! (Enemy Within)
212. The Captain has the right to chide his crew, even though they're doing their jobs.
213. General Order 24....it came and went with "Taste of Armegeddon" and was never ordered again.
214. The Doomsday Machine (The device & the episode)
215 "The Tholian Web" (The ABSOLUTE BEST of "Star Trek") (IMHO)
And perhaps the thing we'll remember most from TOS:
216) The classic Starfleet communicator. Let's face it, it IS a cultural icon of the 1990s as well as of TOS.
217. Two Kirks are sometimes better than one. (Enemy Within, Whom Gods Destroy, What Are Little Girls Made Of, Trek VI-TUC.)
Happy Easter and Passover to you all.
Actually, Passover's over now! It started last Saturday night and ran though tonight.
But I accept your greeting in the spirit in which it was intended. (I just had to nitpick, though... this is NitCentral, after all )
218. One of the opening shots of "The Cage", where we see the Enterprise coming toward the camera, until finally it closes in on the dome on top, and we have our first view of the Bridge.
219. When you design a Starship, be sure to:
A. Have some red alert panels that are burned out.
B. Have all your high voltage panels out in the hallway & unlocked.
C. Have a phasor control room for only one battle sequence.
D. Transporters that hiccup every so often.
E. Have an oval light that is burned out somewhere on the ship.
F. Install photon torpedoes, but don't use them when destroying Doomsday machines.
G. Doors that give emotional support when needed.
220. When Khan shouts; 'THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!" in Star Trek 2.
221. Same movie; Kirk: "Khan you bloodsucker! You've managed to kill just about everybody else, but like a poor marksman you keep-missing-the-target!!!"
222. Even if you have to fly backwards for over 50 days to a planet doomed to collide with an asteroid, don't, under any circumstances, ask for additional help from headquarters.
223. Hey! That's my birthday! February 23rd! :-) Anyways... Instead of building a new model for M-5 to destroy, re-use footage of the Botany Bay, a ship over 200 years out of date in Kirk's time.
224. Instead of creating a decent model for a 'Klingon warship' in "Friday's Child", show an glowing iron or simple object instead.
225. Instead of creating a decent model, show a fuzzy blob to represent the 'Thasian ship' in "Charlie X". Were we cheated out of cool enemy ships or what?! (Until we saw the D-7, of course)
226. And don't forget the Melkotian warning bouy that looked like a Rubik's Cube.
226A. Also Balok's cube.
226B. (Maybe it was Balok's cube that I was thinking of in the first place.)
227. The wonderful lighting in the scene where Spock and Amanda are talking in "Journey to Babel".
228. Let's not forget the "mystic blur" that occurred everytime a beautiful woman appeared.
229. The interchanging nacelles with vents / nacelles with spheres nit. (Maybe the spheres retract & cover the vents when the Enterprise goes into a planetary orbit, so they don't get ion debris into the atmosphere? Hmmm. An "Enviromentally Safe Enterprise? Could be.)
230. "He's / She's / It's dead, Jim."
231. The Vulcan Nerve Pinch (R)
232. The Vulcan Mind Meld (R)
233 Probably mentioned above (I'm not sure) but just to remind everyone again: there is no such thing as a Vulcan Death Grip(patent pending) unless you count the tal-shaya...
234. The fact that the ep 'Tomorrow is Yesterday' accurately predicted that the moon shot would take place on a Wednesday.
235. "But Spock - that was in the early 1970's!" "Apparently, Captain, so are we."
You mean... "late 1960's..." right?
Karriem, Rene is right.
Kirk did say "the late 1960's" I saw the ep on DVD just the other day.
236. Ted Cassidy would've made a more convincing Klingon that William Campbell in "Trouble With Tribbles"
237. The late John Colicos' Kor was probably my favorite Klingon of all. (Michael Ansara's Kang a close runner-up)
238. The number 38 turns up in at least two third season eps-"Day of the Dove" (38 free men, the rest held below decks) and "Plato's Stepchildren" (38 Platonians)
Did you say the LATE John Colicos?! When?
John Colicos passed away on March 7, 2000. Hard to believe it's already been more than a year.
239. Vulcan lieutenants who make the top of the class are dangerous. (STVI)
240. The changing regulations of what speed to exit Spacedock (In STIII it was 1/4 impulse, in STVI it was thrusters only)
241. There are TWO barriers at the center of the galaxy...both of them are bad news.
242. Gary Mitchell was no god, he couldn't even get Kirk's middle initial right.
Is there an end to this category? I hope not.
243. All Starfleet uniforms render any extra pounds extremely unflattering.
244. "Nice place you've got here, Mr. Pike"
245. First words in the first pilot: "Definitely something out there, Captain, headed this way."
Oooops...sorry, Rene and John L., you're right. I think i was referencing the Blish novelizations yet again.
A friend of mine used to know John Colicos pretty well as a poker buddy (yes, the theatre community here in Canada is really that small). Apparently he was a really good guy who enjoyed the attention he got from Star Trek right to the end.
246. The various sonar-pinging sounds that the main viewscreen makes.
247. The original Series wasn't obsessed with the number '47'.
248. Starship captains usually loose their marbles; Decker, Tracy, Kirk in The Enterprise Incident, the Defiant's captain in The Tholian Web.
249. Starship captain is a pretty good way to meet chicks; security guard, uhhh, not so good.
250. The pajama uniforms of Star Trek The Motion Picture; they were actually an insidious Klingon practical joke to render Starfleet too tired to fight.
251. George and Gracie were good names for the two whales of Star Trek 4. Beavis and Butt-Head would have been funnier.
252. We'll never know what Star Trek would have looked like if Jeffrey Hunter and crew had stayed.
I don't mean to nitpick (too much) but in reference to #245 the actual first words in the first pilot were "Check the circuit!"
But you are right Adam in that those were the first meaningful words.
Chris, I think you're right. I was going by the aired "Menagerie".
251a. Ralph and Alice would have been even better.
252a. Probably a different path taken; less physical, even more cerebral. Hunter's career tanked after he turned down Trek.
253. "V'Ger seeks the Creator."
254. "V'ger is acting like a child. I suggest we treat it that way."
255. Last words of TOS: "If only....if only."
256. "I weep for V'Ger as I weep for a brother."
257. "Carbon units are not true life forms."
258. "Jim. As much as you wanted the Enterprise, I WANT THIS!"
259. "Well, its been a long time since I've delivered a baby, and I hope we got this one off to a good start."
260. "Out There. Thataway."
261:Spock; "Lieutenant, have you ever piloted a starship out of space dock?"
Saavik; "No, sir."
Spock; "Take her out, Mr.Saavik."
Followed by Kirk and McCoy's reactions, followed by McCoy asking Kirk if he'd like a tranquilizer.
262; McCoy; "Stop! You'll flood the whole compartment!"
Kirk; "He'll die!"
Scott; "Sir, he's dead already."
263; From STIII: Kirk is forced to relive Spock's death while melding with Sarek, who mimics Spock telling Kirk to live long and prosper. Kirk's eyes widen and he whimpers, "No...", then the look of loss on his face as the meld is broken.
264; Sulu; "The word, sir?"
Kirk; "The word is 'no'. I am therefore going anyway!"
265; As the Enterprise approaches the Space Doors; Kirk; "And...now, Mr.Scott!"
Scotty; "Sir?"
Kirk; "The doors, Mr.Scott!"
Scotty; "Aye, sir, I'm working on it!"
266. "The Cage" is the only TOS episode that featured a woman in command of the Enterprise (Number One)
267. There's more than one way to snap a person's neck other than Tal Shaya.
268. Even though Planet IV 892 has color broadcasts for their TV viewers, The Enterprise receives a broadcast in black & white. (Bread & Circuses)
269. "It's not the sun up in the sky, it's the Son of God" (Bread & Circuses) BEST LINE of all TOS.
270) Devoted and honest fans of the original "Star Trek" series will always remember the best lines... even if every single one of them is a classic...
271) We will never, EVER, run out of things to remember about TOS. To paraphrase a quote from the end of ST2, it won't be gone... so long as we remember it.
[broad grin]
272. I believe Spock said "A starship is built on loyalty." Nowhere is this more in evidence than "Star Trek III-The Search for Spock" where Kirk's loyalty to his friend, and the crew's loyalty to their Captain, form the basis for the film.
273. Hippies exist only in the 1960's - early 1970's and part of the 23rd century.
274. "Headin' out to Eden, yea brother."
275. We reach.
276. "Herbert!"
277. Captain Koloth...son of Trelane
278. Ruk is the only guy that Kirk could not beat up.
279. The only good Orions are the women. (The Cage/ Journey to Babel / Whom gods Destroy)
280. If you're an ambassador or commissioner you are NOT allowed to have any bodyguards whatsoever.
281. Even though you already have a Yeoman, it's OK to let a no-named cadet do her job. (Conscience of the King)
282. T Negative blood is rare...even to Vulcans.
283. You can not pronounce Spock's or Amanda's Vulcan names.
284. "Computed...dear" (Tomorrow is Yesterday)
285. The venomous Mugato leaves bunny tracks.
286. After a unanimous vote, Tyree's planet shall be renamed "Vietnam II"
287. Needles on the end of the warp naecelles can disappear at will!
288. Even though the Federation steals a Romulan cloaking device,it is due to the boneheads in the upper ranks they won't ever use such technology for at least one generation.
289. "Tell my mother...I feel fine."
290. Rocks & boulders on alien worlds are made of rubber or styrofoam, yet are as "heavy" as real rocks & boulders.
291. Styrofoam KILLS! (Balance of Terror)
292. Tribbles love coffee too.
293. Security should be on the Bridge only when someone is trying to give the Bridge a "military look"
294. Ventriloquism is a mandatory course for all Starfleet personel..you never know when you'll need to use it.
295. Human brains can operate perfectly within android bodies.
296. Admirals may have their old crew mates call him "Captain" as the Admiral darn well pleases. (STTMP)
297. Bald navigators are hot!
298. NO good came from Nazism...got that Mr. Gill?
299. Klingons are clumsy (Friday's Child)
300. Klingons are weak (Day of the Dove)
301. Caution, your ex-girlfriend could be a salt vampire (The Man Trap)
302. NEVER rub a Thasian the wrong way (Charlie X)
303. Kirk informing the Enterprise the materialization is complete for the first and only time in the series (Return of the Archons)
304. Sulu can make the goofiest faces while under sedation, infected by spores or Landru's absorption.
304a. Advanced symptoms of Sulu-silliness include a desire to pick up a foil and go sabre-rattling through the ship, 'rescuing' bemused communcations officers.
305: "WHERE... ARE... THE TRIBBLES????"
305a: "I beamed the whole kit and kaboodle into the Klingon engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."
306: Kirk's expression when he realizes Scotty started a fight in the bar because they insulted the Enterprise, not Kirk.
"292. Tribbles love coffee too."
THAT one had me rolling!
Contribution of the day:
307: Solid neutronium = paper mache
Score so far:
ST:TOS- 307 Things we'll remember
ST:TNG- 167 "
ST:DS9- 122 "
ST:VOY- 269 "
By far, making TOS the leader!
308. Face slapping is necessary to help Vulcans fight their way back to consciousness...unless you're an Ambassador.
309. Kirk left Shanya behind because he'd never get any work done with her on board.
310. McCoy get to call Spock any name he darn pleases without any punishment from Starfleet or the ACLU.
311. The Andromeda Galaxy is EVIL!!!!!!
312. Scotty always has his right hand curled or hidden (to hide the fact that Doohan has a missing finger)
313. Voice authenitcators should only be used when the crew feels like it.
314. All Starships look alike. (until the movies roll around)
315. Non-corporeal lifeforms can inhabit computers or even a Starship itself. (Wolf in the Fold, Return to Tomorrow)
316. Aurelan Kirk...The scream queen of all Star Trek.
317. Even though the planet seems unhabitable with particles of preanimate matter showing up on the sensors, nobody has enough intelligence to bring along a phasor...JUST IN CASE! (STII)
318. The Kowel / Kyle mix-up in "The Immunity Syndrome"
319. The Gumato / Mugato mix-up in "A Private Little War"
320. The Oxmyx / Okmyx mix-up in "A Piece of the Action"
321. The Uhuru / Uhura mix-up in "Star Trek VI"
322. McCoy's "Spawnk" instead of "Spock" in "The Deadly Years"
323. The way Shatner, Nimoy and Doohan look now vs. the way their characters looked in "Deadly Years."
324. When dealing with awkward male rulers, threaten to blow up their planet. With female rulers, threaten to spank them.
(A Taste of Armageddon, Elaan of Troyius)
325. You can't beam through shields, except when you can.
326. Spock. nuff said.
327. "This place is even better than Leningrad." (I, Mudd)
328. Rules books are great. You can use them to wedge down the accelerator when leaving spacedock!
329. NOBODY....BUT NOBODY can read the Preamble like Captain James T. Kirk.
330. Captain Tracey's twin cousin was Dr. Van Gelder.
331. Mr. Leslie...the red shirt that wouldn't die.
332. Mr. Washburn....the rebel repair guy. The man who refused to wear red even though he was in maintenence.
333. All Paradise planets are EVIL...one way or another.
334. "Assignment: Earth" The spin-off that died before it started.
335. Everyone owns a black cat...and they all are real women in disguise. (Catspaw, Assignment: Earth)
336. Alien jewelry can power the warp drive. (Elaan of Troyius)
336(b.) Alien Jewelry can also disable the ship, brainwash and kill crewmen,and transform aliens into humans (and cats -- see 335). (Catspaw)
337. Kirk: The computer killer.
338. If an alien has a cat, chances are, the cat is really a human in disguise. (Assignment:Earth)
339. All aliens, no matter what planet they're from, have 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 arms & 2 legs.
340. Warning buoys, no matter what form they take, are to be OBEYED! You're inviting trouble if you don't! (Corbomite Maneuver, Spectre of the Gun)
341. Uhura & her mirror which was CONVENIENTLY stored at her workstation...just in case she need some primping & polishing.(And the Children Shall Lead)
342. The interracial kisses....Sulu & Uhura & Kirk & Uhura (Yes kids, there were TWO!!!!!)
343. "Terri" Garr (SIC) (Assignment:Earth)
344. Janice Rand's bare naked legs! (Charlie X)
344a. Heck...Janice Rand PERIOD! The most beautiful yeoman EVER to set foot on the Enterprise!!!!!! All others look pale in comparison to her! No one can hold a candle to Rand!
Re #339: What about Hortas and Tribbles? Perhaps it should read, "Most aliens."
Margie---ooops---you are so right.
345. Lt. Palamas...the Greek goddess who wasn't even Greek.
346. NEVER, EVER take on board your ship a bunch of intergalactic hippies.
347. Never trust a Gorgon.
348. "E Pleb Neesta"
349. Finnagle's Folly...the most potent drink next to Romulan Ale.
350. 'Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise'...a lesson Science Officers and space hippies have to learn the hard way.
351. "I've finally figured it out...you're not afraid to die because you're more afraid to live!" (McCoy to Spock, 'Bread and Circuses')
352. Never never mess with those innocent-looking rocks on alien planets.
352a. For that matter, give those cute fluffy alien plants a wide berth, too.
353. Despite the intergalactic experience and knowledge now available to them, 23rd-century diplomats are inevitably narrow-minded fools.
354. Idealism is a wonderful thing...until it starts endangering the Enterprise ('Where No Man, This Side of Paradise', etc.)
355. Pretty yeomen in their nightwear will always rematerialise on the bridge. (Charlie X)
366. Kirk to Spock "Get out! I never want to have to look at you again" and the look on Spock's face (The Deadly years)
367.
Oh on the good ship Enterprise
There's someone who's in satan's guise
His devil ears and devil eyes
Will rip your heart from you....
368. "Captain Spock, you do not stand accused of anything."
"Mr President, I stand with my shipmates."
369. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
370. Sometimes the needs of the few - or of the one - outweigh the needs of the many.
371. When in Pon farr, it's OK to lounge nonchalently against a cliff.
372. Plomeek soup is not green, Mr Blish.
373. Romulan style ears are somehow not aesthetically pleasing on a human.
To be continued.....
374. Anytime a non-corporeal lifeform merges with a human being, the host's voice is altered with a very cool reverb.
375. Aliens can transport you and your crew over great vast distances and through miles of solid rock.
376. Everyone has a clone that shows up later in your voyages.
377. Trelane's "BOING" noise can be duplicated by other alien races.
378. Uhura's bare naked legs.
379. NEVER let a computer run your Starship. (The UIltimate Computer)
380. A nuclear missle was detonated somewhere over Europe sometime in the late 1960's...and we all missed it!
379.(Spelling correction) "The Ultimate Computer"
381. "I am Kirok!!!!!!" (Paradise Syndrome)
(Very similar to "The Enemy Within"'s "I am Captain Kirk!!!!"
382. Empires may come & go, but the Star & Stripes are indeed forever! (Omega Glory)
383. The voice of the Guardian of Forever is almost everywhere you go.(Bread & Circuses, Omega Glory)
384. The Enterprise can wipe out an entire continent but can't wipe out a single asteroid. (Paradise Syndrome)
385. The voice of the Metron Leader pops up once in a while in your voyages too...in fact, you actually meet a guy who sounds just like him before being transported to a parallel universe.
386. A lot of the equipment aboard the Enterprise has multiple uses.
387. The disappearing food dispenser in the Transporter Room. (Someone must have spilled some food there and Kirk ordered, "That's it! No more eating in the Transporter Room!)
388. I'll also remember those crunchy cubes that everyone seems to enjoy eating.
389. The disappearing starfield painting on the Transporter Room bulkhead. By the middle of the second season, it was gone, never to be seen again.
That some people thought the show was actually called "Star Trek-The Original Series."
390. Caution: One or more of your crew may be androids.
391. Crossing the Galactic Barrier isn't such a big deal after all. (By Any Other Name)
392. Unanswered question best left unanswered...Which bathroom did Kirk/Lester use and which bathroom did Lester/Kirk use?
393. Spock's father was a Romulan Commander at one time, yet no one seems to notice.(or remember)
394. With one touch of the hand, Spock can make people "Forget" and "Remember"
395. "I... have had... enough... of YOU!"
396. "You Klingon b*st*rd! You've killed my son!"
397. Dr. Helen Noel and the "ven-titillation"
398. Lt. Palamas and her completely exposed bare back. (No wonder Apollo's eyes are bugged out)
399. Yeoman "Bunny Hop" Mears (The Galileo Seven)
400. The way Uhura sat on the sofa in "I, Mudd" (Yeowza!)
401. Scotty calling the Captain, "Jim" in "Mirror, Mirror" for the 1st and last time
402. The destruct sequence. Used twice, it still gives me the willies, no matter how often I see it.
403. Objects on the viewscreen are closer than they appear.
404. The waitresses at Space Station K-7 wear REALLY short mini-skirts---hence how the bar is so popular.
405. Sargon's sphere can be used to make a cloaking device (Enterprise Incident)
406. Sargon's sphere can also be used to house the brain of Spock (Spock's Brain)
407. Lazarus' dome was stolen by the Gamesters of Triskelion to house the 3 disembodied brains.
408. The power plant of Janus VI was also stolen by the Gamesters for their own power plant.
409. The retards who designed the main viewer made its top brightness level equal to that of the explosions and other stellar phenomena it broadcasts that would blind people (Everyone being blinded by the explosion in Balance of Terror). So well-liked is this blinding-viewer that it remains standard part of Starfleet bridges for over a hundred years (The same thing happens in Heart of Glory(TNG) and Parallax(VOY)).
410. Certain Native American tribes were abducted by U.F.O.s and put on an planet that lies smack dab in the middle of an asteroid bowling alley.
(Paradise Syndrome)
411. It's OK to flirt with the enemy if they are of the opposite sex.(Enterprise Incident)
412. Klingon communicators don't stay open when flipped (Elaan of Troyius)
413. If your Science Officer's brain is stolen, it's OK for a Starship captain to fall on his knees and make a fool out of himself.(Spock's Brain)
414. He Knows Doctor....He has reasoned it out.
(Arena)
415. Your logic is impeccable. We are in great danger.
(The Changeling)
416. The doors of a Starship have "drama sensors"
417. Nobody knows for sure if Kollos was too ugly or too beautiful to behold. (Is There In Truth...)
418. Spiral staircases are popular in outer space. (The Empath & For the World is Hollow...)
419. Most asteroids look alike.(Paraside Syndrome & For the World is Hollow...)
420. "You were her teachers" (The Empath)
421. Shanya! Shanya! Shanya! (Gamesters of Triskelion)
422. Kirk RUNNING down the hall at break-neck speed in "The Man Trap" & "Space Seed"
423. Uhura at the Navigator's position "Man Trap", "Court Martial" & "The Naked Time"
424. Uhura's singing & dancing "Charlie X", "Conscience of the King" & "Star Trek V"
425. Dr. Miranda Jones "stealing" Kelinda's hairstyle. ("Is There In Truth...")
426. The "sleeping" door..."Elaan of Troyius" (It's in the Engine room)
427. In the future, if you order a drink "on the rocks", it will no longer come with ice, but instead, two hardened lumps of Play-Doh®. (Journey to Babel)
427A. Also..if you order a drink "on the rocks", be careful that the "rocks" are not an alien life form!
428. Pon Farr is not to be discussed with "outsiders", however, discussing it with scantily-clad cloud-minder babes is the exception.
429. Air-guitars are still in vogue in the 23rd century. (The Way to Eden)
430. Tossing a rock at a Gorn does very little. Neither does rolling a boulder at him work very well.
431. The amount of time I spent, as a young(er) girl, wondering about that basket-weave thing on Yeoman Rand's head. Was it really her hair (must have reached to her feet, if it was, like Rapunzel)? Did she do it herself? Every morning? And above all, why would a woman who actually got to go into space care so much about something as silly as an elaborate hairstyle?
(Later, when I was old enough to understand the ramifications of the term 'glorified airline stewardess', many of these questions were answered. But I still think they were good questions.)
432. Sight-impaired people today wear glasses, contact lenses, and get corrective surgery. In the 23rd century, however, the sight correction will figure into their entire wardrobe (Is There In Truth No Beauty?).
433. Khan; "I have five-times your strength! You're no match for me!" Oh, yeah?! Space Seed.
434. Khan; "THIS IS CETI ALPHA FIVE!!!" Star Trek II.
435. When marksmanship counts, Chekov is your man. (The Orion spy ship in Journey To Babel, and the Reliant's warp engine and weapons pod on Star Trek II)
436. The most powerful alcohol is 'It's Green' from a nice little shop on Ganymede. By Any Other Name.
437. Playtex must be out of business in the 23rd century because no woman...alien, android or otherwise wears a "classic white" bra.
438. Bill Theiss...the man who replaces the dog as "man's best friend". (Let's see a dog design one of Theiss' wardrobe)
439. Kelvan buttons can do a lot of things. Stun people, release people, shrink them down to geometric shapes and bring them back to normal too!
440. Nurse Chapel was the cabbagehead of the original series. (Seriously...she wasn't too bright. McCoy walks in with alien captor and gives Chapel a weird order...AND CHAPEL QUESTIONS IT INFRONT OF THE ALIEN CAPTORS....See "By Any Other Name" for example.)
441. Most of the alien weapons you will see on planets nowhere near each other, you'll find a weapon that makes the same sound as the disruptors of Eminiar VII.
442. Klingon ships can be destroyed with only 2 phaser blasts. (Day of the Dove)
443. Laughter is the best weapon against certain non-corporeal life forms (Day of the Dove)
444. Sometimes drinking coffee can really speed up your metabolism (Wink of an Eye)
440-A; Another example of Nurse Chapel not being too smart; she falls in love with an alien who mates only once every 7 years and hopes he'll feel about her the way she does for him! Not too shmart!
445. The Defiant was covered with "Gorgon Glow" ® (The Tholian Web)
446. There are no "grey areas" regarding the races on the planet Cheron.
447. PREVIEW TRAILERS LIE!
448. Kang...one swat & Kirk goes down.
449. The Gideonites need space for their people, yet they contructed an exact replica of the Starship Enterprise to trick Kirk.
450. Losira...the lady who vanishes like an old TV tube going off.
309-A. Kirk left Shanya behind because she'd never be able to fit into those micro-mini-skirts without jeopardizing the universe's Vasoline supply.
451. The giants of Taurus II have weapon enlargement technology. (Galileo Seven)
452. The missing Sulu conspiracy during the second season and in the wide shots of the viewscreen.
453. The missing Chekov conspiracy in the wideshots of the viewscreen.
454. The "rear projection viewscreen" used in "Spock's Brain"
455. Saying "Blast regulations" can usurp a Commodore's authority on a Starship. (Doomsday Machine)
456. The # 4 shield is the weakest shield surrounding a Starship.
457. Gem--even though it may have not been her REAL name, everyone seems to accept it...even her.
458. Starships cannot withstand warp 9 for extended periods of time, yet Starships have it installed anyway. (That's like having a candle & a box of matches in a flammable storage are in case the lights go out)
459. The love of for an android is more important that 425 crewmen. (Requiem for Methuselah)
460. Even though the Neural Neutralizer was order destroyed on Tantalus, it still exists in other penal facilities (Whom gods Destroy)
Sorry--I meant----
458. Starships cannot withstand warp 9 for extended periods of time, yet Starships have it installed anyway. (That's like having a candle & a box of matches in a flammable storage AREA in case the lights go out)
461...Kirk & Martia..."Whom Gods Destroy" DESTINY I TELL YA'!
462. Martia also wrote poems which "resembled" Shakespeare.
463. Even though there's a non-corporeal lifeform hovering outside your Starship, it's ALWAYS a good idea(?) to fire weapons at it(?????)
464. Klingon transporters make very little noise (if any) (Day of the Dove)
465. Standing up just before a weapon or a vessel slams into your ship is standard procedure.
466. NEVER trust a Gideonite.
467. Belief in a God may be passe' in the 23rd century, but you still refer to Holy Scripture, and mention God or other holy people from the Scriptures when you darn please. (How dare you!)
468. Droxine....The "stuff" that dreams are made of. (And she has nice "stuff" too!)
469. Even though you have 2 people aboard who are trying to kill each other, it's okay to have them roam around freely aboard your ship. ("Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
470. NEVER, EVER... even upon pain of death, invite intergalatic hippies aboard your Starship.(Way to Eden)
471. Kissing a robot is more important than the lives of your dying crew. (Requiem for Methuselah)
472. The women of Stratos...MMMMMMM!
473. "DIG!" (Cloud Minders)
474. The Romulans take naps (Way to Eden)
475. "LORD GARTH!!!!!" (Whom Gods Destroy)
476. Memory Alpha has no shields. (Who was the brain who built this space staion, eh?)
John,
Nitpicking the Nitpickers:
Yvonne Craig was Marta ("Whom Gods Destroy")
Iman (Mrs. David Bowie) was Martia ("ST VI-The Undiscovered Country")
Sorry.
Adam, You are so right!
477. An entire Starship can be shrunk down to a model-sized vehicle with a press of a button. (Requiem for Methuselah)
Sorry # 459 & 471 are duplicates...here's a new # 471....
471. Even in death, a guitar player's index finger can still strum. (Way to Eden)
We now resume the current #'s....
478. Women's navels....one episode you see 'em...the next episode you don't.
479. Even though an insane woman and her evil doctor companion try and "steal" a Starship Captain's "life force" and put it inside an insane woman's body while putting the insane woman's "life force" inside the Captain's body...if the "life forces" get restored by the end of the day, all charges for any crime committed are dropped immediately.(And don't you forget it!) (Turnabout Intruder)
480. RAND! RAND! RAND!
481. The huge space doors on the huge space dock can open up in less than 30 seconds! (STIII)
482. Starships can either be built in space dock or dry dock.
483. Project Genesis is a classified device, yet very little is done to protect it.
484. Scotty--the higher the number the movie sequel number goes, the fatter he gets.
485. John A. Lang needs a life.
Oh for pity's sake. Mod, I suggest a deletion of that cowardly post, since it is an attack and has nothing to do with this topic.
Ditto on the deletion.
To paraphrase the famous saying: Who needs a life more - the person who posts here or the person who posts an attack on them for doing so?
I'll sort out the errant poster with:
485) "Gravity is down to point eight."
> 391. Crossing the Galactic Barrier isn't such a big deal after all. (By Any Other Name)
Add "Is There In Truth No Beauty" to that one. And...
391a. A full telepath has a higher psi rating for certain than anyone who isn't a full telepath. Evidently the shields were improved by 3rd season, Dr. Miranda Jones didn't get zapped.
486. The entire history of an alien planet can be stored on small glass plates. (All Our Yesterdays)
487. The crew's mutiny in "Turnabout Intruder"
488. Memory Alpha. The place where all of the knowledge of the galaxy is stored. Yet it lies smack dab in the middle of the Alpha Quadrant---unshielded.
489. The Argelian women are so.......(????) {Wolf In The Fold}
490. Scotty never got to kiss the girl in any episode.
491. Natira---the only woman McCoy kissed.
492. Gem---the woman with no voice, yet said so much with the movement of her body.
493. Uhura's "delicious" abs (Mirror, Mirror)
494. Uhura's "yummy" cleavage" (Plato's Stepchildren)
495. Vina & Marta--The Orion Slave Girls
496.the crew of Tos gets mentioned in Voyager: Sulu, mccoy (twice Cpt kirk ...
497.Mr leslie plays charecters without screen credit,Thule, Conners,, Leslie, several security guards
498.Mccoy s classic:He s Dead Jim
499.Mispelling of Uhuru in Star trek 6
500.the Number 47 throughout Trek stories
501.The starships have no Internet, but they have the disks for recording though and a Library Computer
502.Highest warp speed: Warp 14.1, That Which survives)Janeway coulda used that speed...
503.Some episodes have seat belts for the prerequsite(sp) shaking...
(phasors fire John)
504.Russia Inwented
everything, including quadrotriticale (sp)...some people thought Tribbles were real animals....
505.How many episodes Geordie s visor was off?
Encounter at farpoint, the Enemy,Starship Mine, some others...
506."This is my Chicken sandwhich and Coffee," a tribbles lunch...
507.The scpipt superivsor snafu
508. Mudd s Women 3 brides for 3 Miners...
509 John s phire Phasors snafu {wink})
510.The Falling tribbles on Kirk s Head ...
511. Curzon Dax looks good in the Tos Mini skirt dont he\she?
512. Arena: We Will Control All you See and hear...
513.You steal the Transwarp drive parts so Starfleet cancells the program...
514.Chekov s unspoken line:Russia Inwented Tribbles,Fast Food and The Klingons...
515.The oriental Transporter assistant is allergic to retinax, so he wears Glasses (the Cage)...
516.The Andromeda Galaxy is not a Wrigley s Pleasure Planet type place to go to if you want to be conquared and ruled by the Kelvans...
517. Bones had to kiss his ex wife once John , he had a unshot scpipt duaghter...(it was in the Making of Star Trek Bio)
518.Thought the Uss Chekov was named after Pavel, it turns out to be his brother s, Piotr (sp) (day of the Dove)
519.Chekov and crew thought This is Ceti Alpha 6 so they got sent back to learn Star Charting 101...(Wrath of Khan)
520.Some kids thought the Gorgan guy wasn t a lawyer he was an actor...
521.Where do you to the bathroom on starships on its 5 year missions?
522.They never showed Rec Room Area 39 again..nor the swimming pool or bowling alley.
523.The Enterprise is 20 years old.. shouldn t that be 25? 30?
524.Kirk always gets his women except Losira
525.Dr Simon Van Gelder is Cpt. Ron Tracey s half brother...(both went agaga)
526.Yeoman Rand plays Woman in Cafetaria in Star trek 3
527.Aliens go crazy in the future, thus we have Tantalus Colony and Whom Gods Destroy s planet...
Elba 2? something like that..
528. Why does God need a Starship? -You Dont ask God for his I.D, Jim
529. What every Starship captain needs: We need a Captain s Woman in the orginial universe...I ve been a Captain s Woman and I like it...
530.M-5 (from the Ultimate Computer) gets fired and turns into a Robot for Flint...(Requim)