Posted on 04/19/2018 4:57:16 PM PDT by Twotone
Those who can remember a half century back will recall these words, spoken by Captain James Kirk of the starship Enterprise at the beginning of each episode of Star Trek:
Spacethe final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year missionto explore strange new worldsto seek out new life and new civilizationsto boldly go where no man has gone before.
Although the original series lasted only three years and 79 episodes, it spawned follow-on series and has become a cult classic.
But this essay is not about classic science fiction, the starship Enterprise, or Captain Kirk. Yet it is about science that has some of the elements of science fiction. It is about a starship going where no man has gone before. And it is about Captain Kirk, played by Canadian actor William Shatner. Yes, Shatner is still alive at almost 88 and promoting the latest NASA spacecraft mission to touch a star.
That star is our Sun and the mission is called the Parker Solar Probe. At the size of a small automobile, the unmanned probe is hardly a giant starship. But it will have to endure heat and radiation greater than any encountered by the Enterprise. Although hardly traveling at warp speed, it will reach almost half a million miles per hour as it swings around the Sun in flybys that get ever deeper into the solar corona. That is where the Sun accelerates the solar wind to supersonic speed and embeds intense solar magnetic fields into a giant spiral that sweeps galactic cosmic rays out of the solar system.
(Excerpt) Read more at nw-connection.com ...
An Ensign is the lowest-ranking officer in the Navy (and thus, presumably, Star Fleet, too).
The rank of Ensign corresponds to the 2nd Lieutenant in the Army. They are both officers!
Class dismissed!
Regards,
Gene Roddenberry didn't allow any 'over acting'... Actors love to 'emote' at high levels but when everyone's competing it's exhausting for the audience. And it's not realistic. So Roddenberry would step in frequently and remind actors that high levels of emotions didn't work in routine settings like a ship's bridge...
so, beam me up then
Interesting piece. Thanks.
Fly Me to the Moon
https://youtu.be/5hxibHJOE5E
What about the dancing green girl ?
I tell my wife of you’re reading about it or see it on TV we’ve already had it for 40 years. Don’t get me started on the super fast underground trains.
No. That skanky slutwhore has absolutely nothing to do with "where no man has gone before".
Ensign is an officer rank.
Name in space...
Stella Mudd.
The Shat sure didn't get the memo.
Although,once you go green...
Andrea...
I’ll look for it.
I’ve always wondered why the Enterprise never hit any asteroids or planets or stars when it was traveling at warp speed....
That would be Marta from "Whom Gods Destroy" (played by Yvonne Craig who also played "Batgirl").
I don't think so. Marta certainly was doing good at getting Kirk's interest up, until she pulled that knife on him...which kind of killed the mood. She pegged the needle on the crazy/hot matrix.
I never realized she was Batgirl. Thanks. That makes her definitely worth crossing into the danger zone for me.
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