Is here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5748780#post5748780
Hoshi. It’s the Hoshi Effect.
Get a grip, man!
It is merely a link to your thread.
People who don’t know will believe you to be addled.
But I am for I gazed too long upon the brilliance that is Hoshi and have suffered a bit of heat stroke for it.
I understand, old fellow, but back to
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...780#post5748780
lest some of those…people…begin posting here.
Bah! What happened to the halcyon days of Trek Doping when we could have three threads about one episode?
Fine. Fine. This is my last post in this thread. ::grumble::
Allright, plagiarism breath, let’s talk about how that was a fair episode until the Travis Alien said the “O” word.
Again the damned “Trek Word Dropping” henceforth TWD ™. Mediocre Trek novel writers have to stuff their damn book full of references to Trek episodes. “The Rise and Fall of Kahn Noonian Singh” has a walk on with Jillian from “The Voyage Home”. No damn reason for it in the plot, just the author courting the less intelligent reader. “Oh! I know that! She was in the movie!”
“Oh! The Orgaanians were in the TOS episode where the weapons got hot and they couldn’t fight!”
Never mind that the Organians in Errand of Mercy were corporeal, that unlike this episode they were primarially concerned with keeping the humans and Klingons from killing each other.
What the hell was Errand, Night of the TOS Living Dead? Where did they get the bodies? Maybe from a nearby spaceship wreck, just to mess with Kirk and Spock? Why didn’t they inhabit Kirk and the Klingon leader and settle their differences? Why not inhabit ambassadors of each species, or better ket, their leaders and make a lasting peace?
This single mention really screws up a TOS episode.
In Errand of Mercy, they reveal themselves as noncorporeal beings. They had taken on the bodies specificaly to lead in to the peace treaty between Humans and Smooth Heads.
And yeah, they can cut down on the ‘homage’ stuff. It’s not really needed.
Dammit.
I was hoping you guys wouldn’t know what that word meant.
I suggest a new term: Gratuitous Trek Reference ™ or GTR.