Fleet Captain Garth of Izar was a brilliant Starfleet officer before he went mad. He later took Capt. Kirk and Cmdr. Spock captive in the asylum where he was bring held.
Marta, the green-skinned chick with whom Kirk almost made out in that episode, was an Orion, like the dancing slave girl in the first STAR TREK pilot.
Cmdr. Spock, First Officer and Science Officer of the USS Enterprise, offers a deadpan putdown of Marta’s dancing by likening it to that of Vulcan schoolchildren.
In the first draft of “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” later adapted for print by James Blish, Capt. Christopher, USAF, thinks that Spock comes from the planet Vulcan that was once believed to lie between Mercury and the Sun.
The December 20, 1860 extra edition of the Charleston Mercury featured the famous announcement that THE UNION IS DISSOLVED!
Water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid including sulfuric acid.
The Electric Kool-Ade Acid Test was a narrative by Tom Wolfe about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. who tried to spread the word about LDS and marijuana across the US.
You mean they were Mormon missionaries? :eek:
LSD, which is non-addictive and not known to cause brain damage, was not outlawed in the US until late 1968.
In STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (the best film in the TREK series, IMHO), Kirk apologizes for Spock’s somewhat addled condition by saying he had “a little too much LDS” back in the '60s (Spock, of course, is dressed like a hippie/hare krishna/whatever).
James T. Kirk, early in his Starfleet career, served aboard the starship USS Farragut, presumably named after David G. Farragut, a Union naval hero of the Civil War, and the first person to hold the rank of admiral in the U.S. Navy.
James T. Kirk was a Union officer during the American Civil War. He held the rank of colonel in the 10th Pennsylvania Reserve. The “T” stood for Thompson.
Eugenie Moore Anderson was the first woman to hold the rank of ambassador. Appointed to Denmark on October 20, 1949, she presented her credentials on December 22, 1949 and served until January 19, 1953.
The first American woman ambassador maybe, but Anna Kollontai of the USSR
was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Sweden about 20-25 years earlier.
Kollontai was the daughter of a Czarist General. She senssibly showed more loyalty
to Stalin that to Nicholas II, and survived the purges to live until a ripe old age.
Well, as we all know, it doesn’t count unless an American has done it. 
At play: Joef Stalin at one point studied for the priesthood.
Out of play:
I should google before I post.
The lady’s first name was Alexandra, and although she was later Ambassador to Sweden,
her first job in that capacity was in Norway.
In Euclidian geometry, a point does not have length, width, depth or volume.
The maximum depth a human can safely dive to outside a submersible is about 100 metres or 300 ft.
Benita Fitzgerald-Brown was the last woman to win Olympic gold for the United States in the 100 Meter hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles where she won in a time of 12.84 seconds
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were the first to be televised. Those transmissions continue to propagate through space and are now almost 76 light-years away from Earth in all directions.
“76 Trombones” is one of the best-known tunes from The Music Man by Meridith Wilson. It is a popular choice for high school marching bands.