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Yeah, cause you know nerve pinch beats force choke, any day. I still love star wars, just love star trek more. ♥
And Star Trek loves you.
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Captain´s log, Stardate… not yet bedtime.
This Enterprise may not “go boldly where no men have gone before,” but that is not to say it lacks boldness. Instead, the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is a massive 1,123-foot aircraft carrier and one in a long line of Enterprise-named craft, spanning from an 18th-century sloop to the recently retired Space Shuttle. Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Enterprise turned 50, making it the second-oldest commissioned vessel in the United States fleet (outdated only by the 214-year-old ceremonial ship USSConstitution). As part of this landmark anniversary, the Navy held a large celebration yesterday, even opening the ship for tours. Looking back on its storied past, the Enterprise is notable for several accomplishments:50 Years Later, the Enterprise Is Still Going Strong
After its birthday festivities, Enterprise will head off for one last deployment prior to its scheduled decommissioning in 2013. That will leave the Navy without an Enterprise for the first time since 1775. Of course, with a name that has grown into geek legend, the prospect of an Enterprise-less fleet whipped the internet into action with its most familiar tool: the online petition. Results have yet to materialize, with the next aircraft carriers already planned as the Gerald R. Ford and John F. Kennedy, but the efforts continue. After all, somebody has to keep the streak alive for Kirk and Picard.
… And that is why I’m here not to conquer you with weapons or with ideas but to coexist and learn.
Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek
Doctor Who references in Star Trek
In the episode ¨The Neutral Zone¨ from the 1st season of Star Trek The Next Generation, when Deanna Troi is conferring with Clare Raymond concerning her family tree during this episode, the console on Troi’s desk displays a list of the first six actors who starred as the Doctor in Doctor Who.
Colin Baker; Tom Baker; Peter Davidson; William Hartnell; Jon Pertwee; Patrick Troughton.
Star Trek has referenced Doctor Who on at least four occasions. In TNG: “The Naked Now” Riker asks for a Sonic driver to open a force field, a reference to the Sonic Screwdriver used by the Doctor to open doors and force fields throughout the Doctor Who franchise. In TNG: “The Neutral Zone”, an on-screen graphic of Clare Raymond’s family listed William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson and Colin Baker among her descendants. These are the first six actors who played the role of the Doctor on Doctor Who. (“Peter Davidson” is a misspelling of the name of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison.) At the time that “The Neutral Zone” was filmed, Sylvester McCoy had been cast as the Seventh Doctor, but few of his stories had been aired in the United States.
The Argolis Cluster, first mentioned in TNG: “I Borg”, was named after the planet Argolis, seen in the 1980 Doctor Who serial “The Leisure Hive”.
The time-travel pod seen in “Future Tense” was influenced by the TARDIS from Doctor Who
The time-travel pod encountered by the Enterprise NX-01 in ENT: “Future Tense” was influenced by the TARDIS, the time machine from Doctor Who. Specifically, the interior of the TARDIS is larger than its exterior (or “dimensionally transcendental”), and the time-travel pod was also bigger on the inside than on the outside. The exterior of the TARDIS is in the shape of a British police box and Mike Sussman, co-writer of “Future Tense”, noted: “My idea of the ship morphing into a police call box was immediately nixed by the producers!” (Star Trek Monthly issue 108)
There is a similarity between the Borg and the Cybermen, the popular race of emotionless cyborg monsters who debuted in the 1966 serial “The Tenth Planet”.
Although this was not intended as an homage, the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises share in common the fact they feature major characters known only as “the Doctor”: in the case of Trek the EMH hologram known as The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager; in the case of Doctor Who, the character of the Doctor himself.
Time vortex as a method of time travel, has been used in both franchises.
(Source: en.memory-alpha.org)
The menu at the Cafe des Artistes includes such delicacies as
“Croissants D’ilithium”,
“Klingon Targ a la mode,”
“Tribbles dans les blankettes,” and
“L’antimatter flambe.”
