I’ve always thought he looked like a Klingon. Maybe it’s the facial hair.
This is the Steam Punk Trek Universe, right?
I remember reading somewhere (a looooong time ago - how’s that for a cite?) that Klingon ships didn’t have toilets. It was supposed to make the Klingons meaner.
They also save mass by not using reactor shielding. Gives the crew a little more incentive to move higher up in rank and away from the engines.
That’s from Gerrold’s Trouble with Tribbles book, I believe. (It might be from his more general ST book.) It’s from him, anyhow (unless he stole it) and it’s a good line.
It would certainly piss me off.
It just struck me that Ponn Farr is close to Far Poon. Ted Sturgeon was quite the sly one, wasn’t he?
It would help to know what Far Poon is.
Beyond the Pitzer reference, of course.
Just a guess, but how about “poon” that is “far”?
I got nothin’.
Not quite.
I think he means “Poon Tang”.
Like the astronauts had!
Spa fon?
Probably the latter.
His general book was titled “The World of Star Trek” although he himself said it perhaps should have been called Worlds since there were three main ST worlds:
> Gene Roddenberry’s original concept,
> the show itself, in production,
> the fan phenomenon.
Accordingly there were three main units of the book, plus an appendix listing the episodes of TOS, by airing date, with character names as well as actor names.
The book was somewhat reminiscent of “The Making of Star Trek” by Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry. (Whitfield wrote the bulk of the book, not counting actual office memos and fairly long letters from scientific consultants. Roddenberry’s contribution was the insertion of usually fairly brief comments, ALWAYS IN CAPS, btw, which expanded on or explained what Whitfield had just covered.) This also had an episode index, very rudimentary, with only actor names and airing dates. It only included the first two seasons, unless a later edition was produced.
Ah, nostalgia. Nowadays I take all kinds of indexes for granted, but these were the first two indexes of anything of a serial nature that I had ever come across. I remember being somewhat fascinated with the concept. Bjo Trimble’s “Star Trek Concordance” with its brief plot encapsulations, star dates and planet/species names was still a bit in the future. (There would also soon be a Compendium, by yet a different author, which was the only one of the four to include production dates along with the airing dates.)
One of the most striking differences of the first two books was Gerrold’s writing style, compared with Whitfield’s straightforward and family-friendly prose. Both included a run-down on Klingons, but where Whitfield probably essentially quoted some edition of the Star Trek guide for writers, Gerrold wrote a free-form bit of fancy including “Klingons fart in airlocks…” But that was hardly surprising after reading his analysis of the fan phenomenon. While carefully distinguishing fannish behavior from ordinary interests and hobbies, he casually mentioned masturbation (!) as one of the latter.
- “Jack”
So where did all of the rocks come from? Seems like every time the ship takes a torpedo hit, rocks explode out of the consoles and the ceiling.
Either plasma or Styrofoam left over from the rocks on the planetary surface.
All you have to do is find out what the rock wants. What is it’s motivation?
“Captain, It’s a rock.”
“Thank you, Number One. Counselor, can you sense anything?”
“Great…hardness…”
“From the Rock, you dumb slut!”