# Star Trek Funerals **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274 "2007-12-08T09:10:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/21 "2007-12-09T04:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] Maybe if they came with an authentic Scottish bagpiper playing “Amazing Grace”? [/QUOTE] I want that for my send off. Seeing as I can’t have a Viking funeral. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/22 "2007-12-09T06:02:33Z")
It isn’t a real Star Trek funeral unless the remains are launched out of a torpedo tube of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/23 "2007-12-09T11:50:11Z")
I must say, I rather like the casket…though it could be streamlined some more, for my tastes. Unless that “platform” at the bottom is actually just a catafalque. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/24 "2007-12-09T13:47:37Z")
I think its wonderful. I think it would be a shame to spend your life in Trekkiedom - have a Star Trek wedding to a woman who spends her weekends as the Romulan first mate on your starship, and then have to be buried in an ordinary casket. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/25 "2007-12-09T14:30:15Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] It isn’t a real Star Trek funeral unless the remains are launched out of a torpedo tube of some sort. [/QUOTE] How about rolling it off the side of a boat? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/26 "2007-12-09T18:39:18Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] I think its wonderful. I think it would be a shame to spend your life in Trekkiedom - have a Star Trek wedding to a woman who spends her weekends as the Romulan first mate on your starship, and then have to be buried in an ordinary casket. [/QUOTE] Why not have yourself shot into space [like Scotty did?](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8647281/) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/27 "2007-12-09T19:51:16Z")
[QUOTE=BaneSidhe] I want that for my send off. Seeing as I can’t have a Viking funeral. [/QUOTE] Actually, I just started getting curious about whether or not you can legally get a Jedi funeral pyre. 🆒 But a bagpiper playing Amazing Grace is always appropriate at a funeral. Bonus points if you can get some Irish punk band to play it at the after-funeral get-together at the pub. (I’ve made it known to my friends that I plan to set aside some money to cover the tab for my friends and loved ones to hit the bar after my burial) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/28 "2007-12-10T01:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Am I the first one to point out that this is simply spreading something that was pioneered for sports fans? Why is it, anyway, that when sports fans pursue their hobbies, it’s considered perfectly normal, but when nerds do the same things in their hobbies, it’s “get a life”? At least when the nerds wear ludicrous costumes composed primarily of body paint, we do it in climate-controlled hotel conventions, not in freezing stadia. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/29 "2007-12-10T01:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] Why is it, anyway, that when sports fans pursue their hobbies, it’s considered perfectly normal, but when nerds do the same things in their hobbies, it’s “get a life”? At least when the nerds wear ludicrous costumes composed primarily of body paint, we do it in climate-controlled hotel conventions, not in freezing stadia. [/QUOTE] Plus, the few times a female Trekkie feels the need to express her fandom in bodypaint, it usually looks a lot hotter than when a sports fan does it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/30 "2007-12-10T02:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] Why is it, anyway, that when sports fans pursue their hobbies, it’s considered perfectly normal, but when nerds do the same things in their hobbies, it’s “get a life”? At least when the nerds wear ludicrous costumes composed primarily of body paint, we do it in climate-controlled hotel conventions, not in freezing stadia. [/QUOTE] No, I think the guys who go all out for their sports teams are just as nutty as nerds. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/31 "2007-12-10T03:30:59Z")
Sigh. That black-and-red casket brings back seriously painful memories of my abortive TNG fan script, in which the Enterprise discovered a colony of space vampires. And to think that I used to wonder why I was beaten up so often in high school. Of course, to be really authentic, the casket would need to accelerate the evolution of surface microbes until they mutate into giant, hideous flesh-worms capable of asphyxiating Christopher Lloyd. Also I suppose it would have to bring its occupant back to life. I expect that would put the price up even more than the giant flesh-worm option. I wonder if there’s any significance to the choice of _Voyager_ as the art for that page. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-funerals/429274/32 "2007-12-19T22:15:56Z")
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