Worth mentioning that theEnterprise hadtwo shuttles: the Galileo and the Copernicus. I think the second was only mentioned in the"Galileo 7" episode. And I think Sulu's first name was never used in the series. As I recall it was the first Original book, The Entropy Effect, by Vonda N McIntyre, that came up with his first name.
Exactly, Spock tells Lelani (I believe the name is), in "This Side of Paradise," when she tells him that he never even offered the intimacy of telling her his first name, "You could not pronounce it." While this may not sit entirely well with what we later see of Vulcan society, in which no one is referred to by any but their apparent "last names," it is definitely established in that episode. In fact, Spock is more of a main character than Uhura, so by the Unwritten Rules of Trivia, wherein if two characters match the trivia question, the one who got the most lines overall of those who match (the more "main" character) is the more correct answer, lol! And also, just to be fair, we never got a first name for Mr. Kyle or Mr. Farrell, either. And I don't believe we ever got ANY name for that blonde woman who took over the Communications station on the Bridge in some episodes, where they didn't want to pay Nichelle Nichols for just sitting in the background with no lines to speak. So, not only does a more major character than Uhura have no first name, *several* lesser characters also have no first name, and a few have no first OR last name. The question, therefore, was faulty. It's not like I hadn't gotten one wrong at that point, though -- on McCoy's birth state, for some reason the only thing I could recall was Jadzia Dax mentioning that she (actually Dax and an earlier female host) had met McCoy when she had been a judge at an athletic competition, and McCoy had been a student at Old Miss (where they apparently had something of a physical encounter, as Dax recalled Bones having "a surgeon's hands" followed by a suggestive eyebrow twitch). So, for some reason I spaced the fact that I knew McCoy was born in Georgia, and answered that one Mississippi. Sigh.
Galileo wasn't the only shuttlecraft, on the TOS enterprise. In the episode The Galileo Seven, when Galileo and her crew was lost, a second shuttlecraft, called Columbus, was launched. Also, Galileo's registry number is NCC1701/7, suggesting there are at least 7 shuttlecraft, on the Enterprise.
9/10 10/10 9/10 And just from my own point of view, I don't know about anyone else, but I listen to and read TONS of Trek material, including memes, and I had NEVER ONCE heard of a meme "Planet of Hats" referring to ANY Trek episode. Yes, the Iotian men all wore hats, but pretty much all American men wore hats in public from the 1920s until the early 1960s. So that just isn't, to me, anything that is culturally associated with Trek in any way. And heck, if I had once made some joke about, say Janice Rand's hairdo looking like a thatched coke oven, that wouldn't necessarily give me the right to claim that as a meme and put it in a trivia contest, knowing that only myself and the few people within earshot had heard it... 🙂
I'd always heard that Matt Jeffries picked those digits because they were easily readable on-screen (unlike 3, 6, 8, 9). I'd be curious if anyone out there has first-hand knowledge to settle this.
I do know that the USS Constellation (from The Doomsday Machine) was built from an off-the-shelf Enterprise model kit and that's why her serial number is 1071 (re-arranged 1701 from the decals)
@@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 BTW, in the Whitfield book "The Making of Star Trek," the author says that NCC stood for Naval Construction Contract. However, that has never to my knowledge been confirmed by anyone within the original series' production staff.
@@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 It's more complex that that -- in his prior series, "The Lieutenant," Roddenberry had ruffled so many feathers trying to make a statement against institutionalized racism that he lost the co-operation of the Marine Corps and got himself on every network executive's black list. He desperately wanted to make those social points, and realized that the only way he could do so in 1960s America was by doing something like Swift had done in Gulliver's Travels, create a fantasy world in which social commentary could be made without naming the actual actors in these situations from real society. So he arrived at the concept of a science fiction series, in which race bigotry (among other things) could be portrayed amongst or between non-humans, something that could actually be shown on TV without "the entire South" boycotting the show. It was only later, before his first network pitch, that a Desilu executive (trying to tighten up Gene's presentation), suggested the high-concept line of "Wagon Train to the stars," to try and entice network execs who didn't get science fiction, but who had been making TV Westerns for a decade. That wasn't originally in Roddenberry's pitch.
Worth mentioning that theEnterprise hadtwo shuttles: the Galileo and the Copernicus. I think the second was only mentioned in the"Galileo 7" episode.
And I think Sulu's first name was never used in the series. As I recall it was the first Original book, The Entropy Effect, by Vonda N McIntyre, that came up with his first name.
Dorky - 10/10
Geeky - 7 / 10
Nerdy - 5 / 10. Thanks for posting.
You're quite welcome. I hope you enjoy the show!
Spock also had a first name. He once replied, when asked "You could not pronounce it".
Exactly, Spock tells Lelani (I believe the name is), in "This Side of Paradise," when she tells him that he never even offered the intimacy of telling her his first name, "You could not pronounce it." While this may not sit entirely well with what we later see of Vulcan society, in which no one is referred to by any but their apparent "last names," it is definitely established in that episode.
In fact, Spock is more of a main character than Uhura, so by the Unwritten Rules of Trivia, wherein if two characters match the trivia question, the one who got the most lines overall of those who match (the more "main" character) is the more correct answer, lol! And also, just to be fair, we never got a first name for Mr. Kyle or Mr. Farrell, either. And I don't believe we ever got ANY name for that blonde woman who took over the Communications station on the Bridge in some episodes, where they didn't want to pay Nichelle Nichols for just sitting in the background with no lines to speak. So, not only does a more major character than Uhura have no first name, *several* lesser characters also have no first name, and a few have no first OR last name. The question, therefore, was faulty.
It's not like I hadn't gotten one wrong at that point, though -- on McCoy's birth state, for some reason the only thing I could recall was Jadzia Dax mentioning that she (actually Dax and an earlier female host) had met McCoy when she had been a judge at an athletic competition, and McCoy had been a student at Old Miss (where they apparently had something of a physical encounter, as Dax recalled Bones having "a surgeon's hands" followed by a suggestive eyebrow twitch). So, for some reason I spaced the fact that I knew McCoy was born in Georgia, and answered that one Mississippi. Sigh.
Galileo wasn't the only shuttlecraft, on the TOS enterprise.
In the episode The Galileo Seven, when Galileo and her crew was lost, a second shuttlecraft, called Columbus, was launched.
Also, Galileo's registry number is NCC1701/7, suggesting there are at least 7 shuttlecraft, on the Enterprise.
Good point. I should have been more specific with that question.
DORKY - 9/10
GEEKY - 7/10
NERDY - 7/10
Nicely done!
30/30. I'm not quite proud though; the questions were kinda easy.
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And just from my own point of view, I don't know about anyone else, but I listen to and read TONS of Trek material, including memes, and I had NEVER ONCE heard of a meme "Planet of Hats" referring to ANY Trek episode. Yes, the Iotian men all wore hats, but pretty much all American men wore hats in public from the 1920s until the early 1960s. So that just isn't, to me, anything that is culturally associated with Trek in any way. And heck, if I had once made some joke about, say Janice Rand's hairdo looking like a thatched coke oven, that wouldn't necessarily give me the right to claim that as a meme and put it in a trivia contest, knowing that only myself and the few people within earshot had heard it... 🙂
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlanetOfHats/StarTrek
Sci-Fi writers point to it a lot as trope and as a cautionary tale of "soft" sci-fi.
Anyone know why it’s ncc-1701 I heard that it’s the 17th version and it’s the “one” they used
I'd always heard that Matt Jeffries picked those digits because they were easily readable on-screen (unlike 3, 6, 8, 9).
I'd be curious if anyone out there has first-hand knowledge to settle this.
I do know that the USS Constellation (from The Doomsday Machine) was built from an off-the-shelf Enterprise model kit and that's why her serial number is 1071 (re-arranged 1701 from the decals)
@@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 BTW, in the Whitfield book "The Making of Star Trek," the author says that NCC stood for Naval Construction Contract. However, that has never to my knowledge been confirmed by anyone within the original series' production staff.
Question for you, where did Roddenberry say he got the idea for the show ?
It's in his initial pitch to the network for the series.
@@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 It's more complex that that -- in his prior series, "The Lieutenant," Roddenberry had ruffled so many feathers trying to make a statement against institutionalized racism that he lost the co-operation of the Marine Corps and got himself on every network executive's black list. He desperately wanted to make those social points, and realized that the only way he could do so in 1960s America was by doing something like Swift had done in Gulliver's Travels, create a fantasy world in which social commentary could be made without naming the actual actors in these situations from real society. So he arrived at the concept of a science fiction series, in which race bigotry (among other things) could be portrayed amongst or between non-humans, something that could actually be shown on TV without "the entire South" boycotting the show. It was only later, before his first network pitch, that a Desilu executive (trying to tighten up Gene's presentation), suggested the high-concept line of "Wagon Train to the stars," to try and entice network execs who didn't get science fiction, but who had been making TV Westerns for a decade. That wasn't originally in Roddenberry's pitch.
Dorky 10/10
Germy 10/10
Nerdy 10/10
You will have yo do better than this to stump this Trekkie. 😂
LOL. Germy round.
Try the other Trek episodes and see how you score.