May 6th 2009 - Who gives a Tribble?

[Brent Sienna]

Heheh... this is like when you ask someone whether they heard of a certain thing, they answer "Oh, you mean..." and rattle off several pages of details... and when you then say "Yes, that's it!" their answer is "Never heard of it."

Oh, and the answer to Greg's trivia is

the number 42... errr... cipher 3. He wanted to tell his past self to realize Commander (3 full rank pins) Riker's idea of how to prevent the collision - which started the temporal loop in the first place - with the U.S.S. Bozeman under the command of Captain Frasier Crane, was indeed the right one... so they de-compressed the shuttle-bay instead of using the tractor beam to alter Bozeman's course.

[adciv]

Er. No, they decompressed the main shuttle bay to alter the Enterprises course, the Bozeman's course remained unchanged.

[Judd Sandage]

you guys are to much, and that episode had aired on March 23rd 1992, (yes I had to look that up but I do remember seeing it when it first aired) I think its safe to say using Spoiler tags on something past 2 to 3 years is... I think kind of odd. Also I just saw the Burger Klingon commercial... WEIRD, and Firefox has Klingon in the dictionary.

Also if you can place my name in the canon of Star Trek, your a your Geek Cred is very High

[collegestudent22]

Better get those Star Trek glasses, before the "King-ons" do. Of course, this is the same company that came up with the "I like square butts and I cannot lie." ad campaign....

[Brent Sienna]

Er. No, they decompressed the main shuttle bay to alter the Enterprises course, the Bozeman's course remained unchanged.

Yes, I should have inserted "to alter THEIR course" after "decompressed the shuttlebay".

The thing with the tractor beam was Data's wrong solution.

I was being unclear.

I will now commit seppuku, after I transferred my katra into another boy, so's I can watch Star Trek on the weekend.

And, to be honest, I had to google "Judd Sandage" and found him to be a character in two novels by Diane Duane, thus making him non-canon.

[Judd Sandage]

Er. No, they decompressed the main shuttle bay to alter the Enterprises course, the Bozeman's course remained unchanged.

Yes, I should have inserted "to alter THEIR course" after "decompressed the shuttlebay".

The thing with the tractor beam was Data's wrong solution.

I was being unclear.

I will now commit seppuku, after I transferred my katra into another boy, so's I can watch Star Trek on the weekend.

And, to be honest, I had to google "Judd Sandage" and found him to be a character in two novels by Diane Duane, thus making him non-canon.

well, yeah the books arnt considered canon by any stretch but still it is star trek related and I have used that name for years and years.

[teddy]

Was this an easy trivia question, or did I just graduate to a new level of geekdom???

[Calus]

Laforge gave the wrong solution. Data dealt everyone three of a kind if I remember correctly except him self having four 3s.

[Roundtop]

Oh wow, I'm gonna show my geek, as I immediately knew the answer.

Data sent himself a routine which made 3 an important number. This is why he did things like stack the poker deck with 3s (since he could do that when he shuffles), and was generally obsessing over them. The reason for this was to indicate that Riker's solution of the cargo bad depression was correct, not Geordi's tractor beam solution. Since Riker has 3 pips on his collar.

It is worth noting that even though Picard ordered the tractor beam, Data went ahead and did Riker's solution, thus disobeying an order, but nobody cared.

Uhg. Now I feel almost as dirty as the other day when a person asked me if I was growing a goatee for Star Trek, to be the evil kirk, and I knew the exact episode name.

Ohhh..those many years of childhood spent on Trek, TNG, and a touch of DS9. Then I hit Star Wars.... I always loved playing both sides in a ST vs SW debate, saying things just to get the other side riled up.

I was a Riker/Kirk man. The geezer in the command chair is ok, but he has no fun on away missions.

[zuke]

I personally believe that a good trivia question has to have as many outside references as possible to truly show how awesome/pathetic you are!

"How did Data know how to avoid crashing into Fraiser, thereby preventing 'Groundhog's Day In Space'?"

[Mae Dean]

That's more riddle than trivia, really. Or a puzzle, at least.

Really, a GOOD trivia question involves something that WASN'T a key plot point - like, in the same episode, what ship class was the U.S.S. Bozeman? (Or for that matter, had it not been given out in the original question, what was the name of the ship that the Enterprise nearly crashed into?)

[collegestudent22]

Really, a GOOD trivia question involves something that WASN'T a key plot point - like, in the same episode, what ship class was the U.S.S. Bozeman?

Soyuz-class. It also appeared in the TNG finale when it was sent to help investigate the anti-time anomaly and in Star Trek Generations and First Contact. God, I'm such a nerd.

[zuke]

It was also referred to in Generations as having made a course correction, and makes a run against a Borg cube with the Defiant in First Contact.

[Scotty]

i'd probably have to dig around a bit to be sure, but didn't Laforge comment about the soyuz class having been decomissioned like like 50 years prior? i know he was surprised about it.

[Mae Dean]

Yeah - they had been. And from the interior alone, it's CLEARLY an older ship.