huh…well…there it is
Now I can’t look at Vulcan technology the same way again
It’s all that pon farr stuff. Seven years of pent-up sexuality.
The line you had is ‘my dog it has 3 eyes’.
To tie the German beer song thread to another, my dog it has 3 tails would be: ‘Mein Hund der hat drei Schwänze’. Schwanz [singular] is also a German euphemism for ‘junk’, and in Yiddish and a little in English too.
My dog it has 3 balls is ‘Mein Hund der hat drei Eier’, Eier literally means ‘eggs’. This is actually a pretty common figure in other languages, I know Russian uses the eggs word for balls too.
Your etymological junk report!
Thanks, also, for the kind welcome from folks!
Bravo, Blergh.
Audra, we’re expecting a schwanz report next week.
Is it just me, or did anyone else think it was very interesting when Cochrane ran away when the Enterprise crew were asking him questions about his warp technology.
The first time I saw this, I thought there was going to be a huge plot twist at that moment, and Cochrane was going to confess, “It’s all a lie, I had this great idea about warp drive, and sold it to a bunch of suckers. But I’m not an engineer, just a fast talking con man and I don’t really know how to make it work.” At that moment, Riker and Geordi would look at each other, nod knowingly and say, “That’s OK, cause we do.”
And through the magic of paradox, the future secretly saves the past once again.
The first time I saw this, I thought there was going to be a huge plot twist at that moment, and Cochrane was going to confess, "It’s all a lie, I had this great idea about warp drive, and sold it to a bunch of suckers. But I’m not an engineer, just a fast talking con man and I don’t really know how to make it work.
Technically, you don’t know thats not true, since the Enterprise crew did help work on the ship. That would have been a pretty cool twist though.
Also, I thought I’d have the best picture of the thread locked down, but aparently not. 
@1:52:53 For me homie Sean. Backing you up, bro.
From the TNG episode ‘The High Ground’.
Kyril Finn: You added the chair, Captain; I am simply forcing you to sit in it.
well played sir!
Also… the skingasm that Data gets from the Borg Queen gives new meaning to the term “arm porn”.
Well, this shows my naive ignorance – what is the old meaning of “arm porn”?
Oh. Is that all? I was expecting something NFSW!
Thanks.
I finished listening to this podcast today, and near the end the Crew are talking about this lovely lady from Star Trek: Insurrection.
This actress Donna Murphy went to my high school, and she grew up in Topsfield, Massachusetts. She was too many grades ahead of me for me to know her. But one of my best friends was in her high school class. He says she was pretty damn attractive in high school too.
EDIT: (Added this quote from IMDB)
[i]On working in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998): “I hadn’t seen much of Star Trek, so this really was like stepping into a whole new universe. But I feel a sense of honor and responsibility being in it, because I know that the fans of the series and films have such affection for and devotion to all the cast members, and particularly Picard. So I take my seduction of him very seriously.” (1998)[/i]
First mentioned in Diane Duane’s Spock’s World, I believe… a very good read.
Has anybody retconned why the Romulans afterwards developed forehead ridges? Or is it like the Klingons… “We don’t speak of it”?
And Chuck, several times you’ve disparaged the lack of continuity in Star Trek Novels as opposed to Star Wars novels. I beg to differ… did you read Splinter of the Mind’s Eye?, written before it was revealed Luke and Leia were siblings? Ewwww! Plus lots of novels written before the Prequels (Like The Mandalorian Armor, with Boba Fett’s backstory) have continuity problems with Episodes I, II and III.
There are plenty of specific examples of continuity issues in both franchises. But on the whole, the Star Wars universe tends to hold together more tightly overall.
Though I’m not sure I’d call that fact disparaging. Each system actually has its benefits. Trek saw a much more wide range of stories early on, from a wider variety of sources. Star Wars, OTOH, held together a little tighter over the years.
Honestly, I’m a big fan of both.
There was a Ferengi Borg in Peter David’s novel Vendetta. As they have said, novels aren’t canon in Star Trek (with a couple exceptions), but I tend to put his stuff in my personal canon. I like the way he works to tie things together across series
Examples
- Trelane was an immature member of the Q Continuum
- The Doomsday Machine was a prototype of a weapon to fight the Borg, but was launched unmanned.
Hrm. The Vulcan/Romulan ancestory was pretty much understood from way back when, but my google-fu shows that it wasn’t made explicit in TOS (although, it may just have been considered obvious.)
It is ret-canon that the majority of Romulans have the crap-on-their-forehead, while a minority are indistinguishable from Vulcans. (One of the stupider changes Hollywood has made to an established franchise.)
Trying to make a snarky remark but can not think of one worthy of your comment.
Those of us who prefer to look at sexy men made a thread to rival the gutter thread. As time went on the content merged into one big gutter.