I want that for my send off. Seeing as I can’t have a Viking funeral.
It isn’t a real Star Trek funeral unless the remains are launched out of a torpedo tube of some sort.
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.
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.
How about rolling it off the side of a boat?
Why not have yourself shot into space like Scotty did?
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)
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.
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.
No, I think the guys who go all out for their sports teams are just as nutty as nerds.
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.
Semi-Hijack
I found a Theology Professor, Canadian no less, that address not only religious themes & symbolism in Star Trek, but also addresses the fans’ semi-religious response to the series. Her name is Porter.
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jporter/about.htm
Her book–Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture