Today's Star Trek Google Doodle.

Really cool and fun. :slight_smile: I like that they did it for 46 years.

Do you actually see the phasers and torpedoes, or are you talking about the lights on the bridge station? (If you actually see them, then how do you get there?)

There are no balloons.

Redshirts by John Scalzi is a fun read. (The audio edition is narrated by Wil Wheaton.)

Where? I don’t have any balloons.

Google’s doodles are always on peculiarly-numbered anniversaries.

-cough- One might say that, yes. ( Scroll roughly half way down the page )
:smiley:

Woosh!

Can you explain the woosh please? :confused:

It’s the sound the USS Enterprise makes when it flies by the camera.

Yes. Trekkers consider themselves “serious” fans of the show, while Trekkie has become a dervisive term for fans who worship anything Trek.

Nerd wars thus commence.

So, perhaps mine own original query regarding the significance, if any, of this being the 46th anniversary could be more cryptically answered, perhaps in some eerie quasi-dimensionally-rifted sort of metaphysical way as pertaining to the more traditionally-accepted anniversary numeration of 40, regarding the genesis of the term “Trekkie” and Star Trek conventions in general.

Ignorance fought?

In one episode of ST: TNG Capt. Picard gets caught by some bad guys who like to play mind games.

In the interagation room Picard’s evil captor kept trying to make Picard say there are only three lights in the room when there were indeed four.

Every time Picard kept saying four, (because dammit there were four) he would get a nasty jolt from the shock collar his captive made him wear.

Sorry about that, david. It really was kind of an “inside-starfleet” reference that only hardcore Trekk-ies/ers would be expected to get.

I get it now. I thought that the whole subject of balloons (first brought up by clarkstar) was the woosh. I didn’t realize it was the later mention of four balloons.

I think this is relevant in a Trek thread. I stumbled upon this homemade beauty, for any fans of the original “laser pistol” from The Cage. I want one!

For a 46th anniversary, it’s traditional to give a gift made of dilithium.

Darn, of the first season regulars, Scotty got sacrificed on the logo so we could have a redshirt punch-monkey.

Yay. Though redshirt “e” survives he is a little bit worse for the wear upon returning aboard.

It being an “episode” where the Captain is the one that does absolutely everything, Shatner would like this one.

If only they’d waited one more year. I don’t think this’ll be around in 2034.

Well, it was red E to die…