Star Trek is awesome

[Dingfod]

Were there any green women that wanted to sex you up?

[Dingfod]

Italian astronaut sports Star Trek uniform on the ISS.



Her tweet in tribute to Leonard Nimoy.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

She also said "There's coffee in that nebula."

[livius drusus]

Wikipedia has a bunch of different candidates for the source of "live long and prosper," but none of them use the exact phrase. Well, here is a quote from Variety's review of the June 1916 hillbilly revenge picture The Apostle of Vengeance starring silver screen cowboy William S. Hart: "A photoplay thriller that will live long and prosper." Because, unlike nitrate film, irony never bursts into flame and dies, the picture is presumed lost.

[Ensign Steve]

FYI I went to William S Hart high school.

[BrotherMan]

Grace Lee Whitney passes at 85

Whitney was born Mary Ann Chase in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1930, and was raised by an adoptive family. After several years as a dancer with big bands, she was cast as Janice Rand, a Star Fleet yeoman who was personal assistant to William Shatner's Capt. James T. Kirk, in the first season of the original 1966-to-1969 run of "Star Trek."

When the series was reborn as a movie franchise in 1979, Whitney returned, now promoted to chief petty officer, in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." By the time she made her last appearance as Rand, in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," in 1991, she had made it to lieutenant.

As closely identified with Yeoman Rand as she was, however, her family stressed Sunday that Whitney's preference would be to be remembered as a "successful survivor of addiction."

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Wait, did she not do any filming at all for "Flashback" from Voyager?

[BrotherMan]

Cast and Character Notes from Memory Alpha

Having previously worked together on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, this episode reunited George Takei with Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand), Jeremy Roberts (Dmitri Valtane), Boris Krutonog (the Excelsior helmsman), and even some extras. David Livingston stated, "We brought back the actors that we could from Star Trek VI [....] It was kind of surrealistic in a way because the actors were sort of picking up where they left off several years ago in a feature film and now they're doing a TV show. So that was fun, and great to work with George Takei and Grace Whitney and Boris Krutonog and whoever else we got from the original cast." (Flashback to "Flashback", VOY Season 3 DVD special features)

As with George Takei, news that Grace Lee Whitney would be appearing in this episode was made available on the Internet before she even knew about the upcoming episode herself. At one point, Whitney met with Brannon Braga in his office and he advised her of some rewrites and script changes. (Star Trek Monthly issue 16) Whitney appreciated the largeness of her role in this episode. "This is really great for me because I really have dialogue," she said, "I have had an attitude, a purpose. I'm a lieutenant commander and I tell the ensign what to do!" (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #108) Prior to filming on the set, Whitney was introduced to Voyager's cast and crew. She was excited to meet them and vice versa. (Star Trek Monthly issue 16) Whitney was also pleased to be working with George Takei again. Likening the episode to their work on Star Trek VI, Whitney stated, "To be back on the bridge with George, it's just deja vu. When you watch the monitor of us working, you can hardly tell the difference." (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #108)

Having worked with Grace Lee Whitney not only on Star Trek VI but also on the original Star Trek series decades beforehand, George Takei experienced a sense of nostalgia whilst working on a bridge set with her again for this episode. Midway through production, Takei enthused, "It's a glorious, glorious feeling to be in that circular configuration with Gracie there. And it's a funny thing–it doesn't feel like it's been 30 years when you're in that setting. It feels like it was just yesterday. Thomas Wolfe was wrong: you can indeed go home again, and it is so sweet!" (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #108) Throughout the filming of this particular episode, Whitney's enthusiasm was evident to Takei. "Grace Lee was on cloud nine the whole time," he offered. "She's normally effervescent, and she was like an agitated champagne bottle on the set, spilling and bubbling all over the place. She had some wonderful things to do in the episode, and I was happy to have her beside me." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #9)

Kate Mulgrew, David Livingston and Brannon Braga also enjoyed working with Grace Lee Whitney. Comparing her to George Takei, Mulgrew noted, "I didn't have quite as much dialogue with Grace Lee, but I was quite impressed with her as well." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #9) "Grace was great," Livingston said, "a den mother but still with that Starfleet control and attitude." (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #108) Similarly, Braga noted, "It was delightful having Grace. She added a nice Star Trek touch." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 88)

For her part, Grace Lee Whitney enjoyed guest-starring alongside regulars Tim Russ and Kate Mulgrew. Whitney reminisced, "Kate (Mulgrew) was amazing and Tim (Russ) told me that he'd just loved me as a kid, and here we were working together. It was great."

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

FYI I went to William S Hart high school.

That is hellacool. Did the students have any idea who he was?

[Ensign Steve]

Absolutely! We took school trips to his house and everything. He bequeathed it to LA County, and his horse is buried there. Bro, do you even wiki?

What bugged me growing up was that nobody else seemed to know who he was. But then one day Granny Bodene referred to him as "Bill" Hart and called him dreamy or something on the Beverly hillbillies, and I was so thrilled!

[Ari]

Star Trek's Tim Russ Explains Star Wars Day | by...

[BrotherMan]

I would watch the shit out of this show.

House of Picards - Trailer Parody (House of...

[JoeP]

Make it so: Chinese building looks just like Star Trek's USS Enterprise

NDHQ-vid1-NOV2014 - YouTube

[Ensign Steve]

[Janet]

My library director is a trekkie and we need a new building.

[BrotherMan]

Hey Steve. Don't tell pea, but I think I found a way to make her watch the Trax.

[Nullifidian]

STAR TREK IS A DANGEROUS APOCALYPTIC SUICIDE CULT!*

I wonder if we'll find out in ten years that fans of Supernatural are being monitored for the same reasons.

*If you're an overzealous nitwit at the Met with too much time on your hands.

[The Lone Ranger]

ThinkGeek has Star Trek Garden Gnomes, including Kirk, Spock, and a Red Shirt.

[Ensign Steve]

Ensign Wrinklebottom! NOOOOO!!!

[Janet]

Hmm, I still have some money left to spend for my sister's birthday. I think she just might need one of those.

[But]

And now for something completely different:

I've been wondering for some time how the comm system on the Enterprise or wherever is supposed to work. It seems that one person tells the computer who they want to talk to and the conversation is relayed to the other person, but how come there is no delay? How does the computer know who you want to talk to before you've said it?

Picard to Riker - Riker here?

Doesn't really work, does it?

[Dingfod]

Sure it does, we're almost there now.

[But]

Nope, it has to do with logic. It cannot possibly work unless the computer reads your brainwaves.

[Dingfod]

My smartphone knows what I might want to search for before I ask for it, or it seems to anyway. I doubt its reading my brainwaves, I suspect it is listening to what I'm saying or what's on tv that I might be interested in knowing more about. The predictive text function is pretty amazing too, but it learned that from what I've already typed in.

[The Lone Ranger]

That makes some sense, though I'll bet there would be some embarrassing errors here and there.

Let's say that Commander Riker and an Away Team are on a planet's surface and Riker hits his com badge. As soon as he hits it, the Ship's Computer thinks "Based on past experience, there's an 89.6% chance that he's going to call the Captain."

So, the Computer opens a channel to Captain Picard. Riker says, "Riker to Captain Picard," and Picard hears it in real time. Splendid.

Of course, if Riker instead says "Riker to Transporter Room," then Picard gets to hear "Riker to Tr..." before his com badge goes silent. And there is going to be a delay of a second or so before O'Brien hears "Riker to Transporter Room."

I suppose the Computer might be thinking, "If he isn't calling the Captain, then he'll probably be calling the Transporter Room." So maybe it routes each call to the 2 or 3 most likely candidates, and then cuts off communication to the non-intended recipients once it knows who the call is really meant for.


That means Captain Picard is going to be receiving a lot of midnight calls that go, "Troi to Snuggle..." because Deanna is feeling frisky and wants to talk to Riker.