Also- believe it or not- Zorro. And there was the MarkTwain and the Columbia. And native Americans.
After the movie ‘The Godfather’ came out, real mobsters liked it so much that they embraced the language and mannerisms of the fictional characters.
In the 1930s, police reported gangsters dressing like Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar.
Mobster Joe Gallo wore black shirts and white neckties because he loved Richard Widmark’s character in Kiss of Death.
Speaking of Samuel L. Jackson, the movie “Snakes on a Plane” was only made because the internet thought it hilarious to have Mr. Jackson saying “I’m sick of these mother f#cking snakes on this mother f*cking plane”.
When would he have occasion to say that if not in the movie?
In case I’m not being whoshed: Bolding added.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane
Taking advantage of the Internet buzz for what had been a minor film in their 2006 line-up, New Line Cinema ordered five days of additional shooting in early March 2006 (principal photography had wrapped in September 2005).[16] While re-shoots normally imply problems with a film, the producers opted to add new scenes to the film to change the MPAA rating from PG-13 to R and bring it in line with growing fan expectations. The most notable addition was a revision of a catchphrase from the film that was parodied on the Internet by fans of the film, capitalizing on Jackson’s typically foul-mouthed and violent film persona: “Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!”.[6]
So the catchpahrase was added to the movie after the internet made a meme out of it, not the other way around.
The shuttle was named Enterprise after Trekfans bombarded NASA with a letter-writing campaign urging it to do so. Gene Roddenberry and most of the senior actors from the series attended the rollout ceremony, at which the theme from Star Trek TOS was played by an orchestra.
The nuclear carrier Enterprise (CVN-65) was commissioned on 25 November 1961. Its namesake (CV-6) was a Yorktown-class carrier launched on 3 October 1936, and it served throughout WWII.
Okay; it had sounded like the catchphrase preceded the conception of the movie, which clearly can’t be the case.
Probably because I poorly worded my first response, on reread I did make it sound that way.
Apropos to nothing, the first Enterprise was originally named George. I just think it would be amusing to call a spaceship George.
The CVN was the 8th USN ship by that name the first being a sloop in 1776. So, the Star Trek ship was named after the USN ships.
Three seasons is not short. And Nimoy was nominated three times for an Emmy. Also winning two Hugos and several other awards.
Why not? Hershel wanted to name the planet Uranus “George”
But the point is, the Government wasn’t going to name it Enterprise until after Star Trek fans made it an issue.
Construction began on Enterprise on June 4, 1974.[1] Designated OV-101, it was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976. Fans of Star Trek asked US President Gerald Ford, through a letter-writing campaign, to name the orbiter after the television show’s fictional starship, USS Enterprise.
In an official memo, White House advisors cited “hundreds of thousands of letters” from Trekkies, “one of the most dedicated constituencies in the country”, as a reason for giving the shuttle the name.[11] Although Ford did not publicly mention the campaign, the president said that he was “partial to the name” Enterprise, and directed NASA officials to change the name
Yes, “Enterprise” was a name used before by the US Navy, which is why it was used in Star Trek, but the point remains: without the Trekkies, the Shuttle would have been named something else.
But can you hug it and squeeze it?
Gene Roddenberry always considered Starfleet to be an allegory to the British Royal Navy of the 18th and 19th centuries. Yes, they were called into service during times of war, but their primary tasks were exploration, spreading British influence throughout the world through diplomacy, and expanding and protecting trade. In the last instance, they acted mainly as a worldwide police force to ensure freedom of the seas.
The favored term for describing Starfleet has always been “semimilitary.”
Georgium Sidis, or George’s Star, in honor of King George III. Though my Latin isn’t good enough to explain how “sidis” differs from “stella” or “astrum.”
Yep, Darwin sailed on the HMS Beagle an armed naval “brig/sloop”. The HMS Endeavour was also a warship.