At this point, I’m pretty sure I’d run dry of Star Trek things I knew about. Mock only what you know, folks. Mock only what you know.
At this point, I’m pretty sure I’d run dry of Star Trek things I knew about. Mock only what you know, folks. Mock only what you know.
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Wow, that took, what, three strips to go through? Should’ve paced it out more. You could’ve gotten like a week out of those references if you’d tried.
Past Willis couldn’t even pull out “Live long and prosper”?
‘Long live the Federation’ is what people hear when we say that, I guess. It’s actually kind of funny because of how bad it is.
Not that this has stopped anybody before.
At least Spock is in the Federation.
I feel like I should know more about Star Trek than just knowing that working in Engineering and leaving the ship meant you died.
Must … resist … urge … to correct …
No, I can’t.
That’s not strictly true; Engineering and Security both wear red. The guys who die on away missions are in Security, which is why they take the lead and sacrifice themselves to protect the main characters.
Whew, I feel better now.
I now know an Internet article that is in need of revising. “The Internet shall be true.” Mr. Random. Awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Young Willis stared at the paper, brow furrowing, trying to think of what Star Trek dudes said. ‘Live’…something. ‘Long live the federation’? “Sounds about right,” he murmured, lettering in the dialogue into the speech bubble. “And there’s a Scottish dude, right?” His brain strained as he tried to think of an appropriate reference, and he threw up his arms in frustration. From that day on, he made a solemn vow only to make fun of Batman and Transformers.
(Did Howard break his hands?)
With his competence level?
…probably.
Wait, those aren’t actual references?
Well, yeah. The ‘Federation’ is an actual thing, and I’m pretty sure that other thing is a really genericised (mainstream-ified?) quote from Star Trek. The original of course. You’d have to be a massive geek to talk about any of the others.
Poor Danny, three strips in and Howard is cooler than him.
Star Trek was the first original tv series to use special effects the way they did. They sent out to have the teleporter special effect added to film and the light sabers. Figured they’d have it done in a day or 2. When told it would take weeks not days, they had to drop the first show and pull up the next in line instead. Also, they were likely the only show where the guys behind the scenes dug into their pockets to pay for props. Bones (doctor in sick bay) fancy hand scanner’s were actualy salt shakers the prop man bought for another storyline that didn’t work-they were too fancy to be recognized as salt shakers for the Salt Vampire based story. So, presto medical scanners. The award winner show, Harlon Ellison’s City in the Clouds, ran out of $ before they got the women’s costumes in the Romanesque style city. So the crew ran out to local dept. store and bought all the pastel curtain linings they could find. These were draped and pinned with broaches also bought at the store. The ones that always died when leaving ship were one of the 400+ anonymous crew members you see only to flesh out the exploration teams.
Howard and Danny keep changing seats like they get up and sit down in each other’s places every couple minutes.
Originally posted:
September 21, 1998