This quote definitely ranks amongst the “bad” in SF pop culture
“A jizz band without a Bith has its work cut out for them. A jizz band without a kloo horn should find a new gig.”
They also play a game of chance on Barsoom called yano, though ERB doesn’t describe in detail how it’s played. Something to do with numbered balls and holes.
You haven’t experienced Shakespeare until you’ve read him in the original Klingon.
Oh maybe? It’s been years. I thought we didn’t see any of it….maybe punchlines with the crowds laughing uproariously? I do remember Londo not getting what was so funny about them.
But they still haven’t changed Dr. Seuss’s Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (likely because there’s a plausible alternate pronunciation):
And, oh! Just suppose
you were poor Harry Haddow.
Try as he will
he can’t make any shadow!He thinks that, perhaps, something’s wrong with his Gizz.
And I think that, by golly, there probably is.
I was born in 1962, our school desks had anachronistic inkwells, probably because our school had no budget for new desks. But being residents of the 1960s, we had ball point pens, and no need for ink. (I did try calligraphy in 5th grade and spilled an entire bottle of india ink on my pants, but that’s a story for another time).
Maybe people who were kids when Shatner and the writers were kids had inkwells. That’s about the only way it makes sense. Which is to say, the comment make no sense. Kirk was a brat that tortured cats or dogs by tying tin cans to their tails? I guess dipping hair in inkwells is how Kirk learned to be the ladies’ man he grew into? So much for the enlightened future.
I’ve often thought that Kirk’s backstory should have been that he was born and raised in the 23rd century equivalent of an Amish community that had decided to freeze the technology they used at pre-computer levels. That would have automatically given Kirk an excuse for in-character exposition.
As a child, I went to school in San Diego. I’m guessing they had a budget. I know I’ve seen desks with inkwells, but I think it was a museum-like presentation. William Shatner was born in 1931, and Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921. Ballpoint pens were patented in 1938 (Europe) and 1943 (Argentina) and didn’t really get big until after WWII. (I have fountain pens from the ‘50s.) So both Roddenberry and Shatner would remember dip pens and inkwells from their childhood; but it occurred to neither that many people might not know what a ‘pen’ is in the 23rd Century, much less a dip pen.
In particular, I would think that creating holographic versions of your actual crewmates, whether for pornographic reasons or for any other, should be something that’s strictly forbidden. That is, assuming Starfleet cares anything about respect for its personnel.
Which may be assuming too much.
Given sensor technology the potential for spying is enormous. Really this touches on a subject I’ve been considering for it’s own thread: the potential for technology to do anything that’s doable and what happens to humanity then. When the limit is a Krell machine that effectively enacts magic.
That’s obviously short for “gizzard”.
I once read a Trek send-up where their version of Starfleet Academy had a required course in 20th century popular culture. They didn’t say why, it just was.
I bet you would do both.
For the cursing actually works for me, as it does in a newer (but still not new) show Farscape. They get away with it, because it’s an “alien” language, but we all know what they mean. And it means the dialog feels just a touch more natural, rather than people never cursing the way they do in more sanitized/bowdlerized work.
It also had an in-universe version of playing cards (Pyramid, played with hexagonal cards), and the terribly weird looking sportsball game played by the main characters. But you’d still wince at the hair styles, how “weak” otherwise strong female characters would be when called for, and a lot of era-appropriate tropes. Still, better than most.
Farscape, which I just mentioned, does an amazing job on creating various alien worlds, assumptions, the whole nine yards. A concrete example is the game Tadek, which one of the main cast gambles too though the details aren’t ever explained. So lots of epic world building, but it contrasts it with a then-current Human’s perspective, who is (meta!) trying to adapt by applying our own pop culture tropes to describe or utilize. A favorite line:
“We don’t understand the R2D2 crap. We’re going to use the Star Trek system. One blink for yes, two for no.”
Specifically to the music - Grayson was founded by highly religious luddites from Idaho (travelling in starships) who found such a hostile environment they had to quickly revise their rules to survive. (Just amplifying, Der_Trihs and others are also 100% correct)
There was an 8-series adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s The Watch that aired in 2021. They changed it from a fantasy setting to something more steampunkish, and made all dwarves human-sized, not just Captain Carrot.
In one episode, iirc the cops masquerade as a metal band to get into the “bad” part of Ankh-Morporkh (I know, it’s all bad, I’m just paraphrasing). Cheery Littlebottom, played by a non-binary with a deep voice, sings lead in a death metal-like song they perform, using a gutteral language with lots of “och” sounds. I think they were singing about minerals.
Didn’t Barclay get in trouble for creating holographic characters of the bridge crew in TNG?
They were pissed, but polite enough to be more concerned about Barclay’s deepening holoaddiction. He was decompensating, progressively losing his ability to cope with real life. At that point he was more pathetic than obnoxious.
Until Troi saw Reg’s version of her as “The Goddess of Empathy”. 
Woven throughout E.M.Foner’s EarthCent series is the notion of vastly more advanced and ancient aliens collecting kitchen gadgets from Earth - and he makes it work!
I liked The 100’s version better. Humanity survived in a space station for almost 100 years and the punishment for anything was getting floated into space. So “float you” and “go float yourself” were their go to insults.
My elementary school, which I graduated from in 1963, had inkwells in all the desks, and I’m sure it still did when Star Trek aired. Anyhow, I suspect there are no apple trees on Vulcan, so I suspect Kirk’s words might be from still reading Tom Sawyer or something.