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There's always something new to learn!

LOL. Germy round. Try the other Trek episodes and see how you score.

I never thought about his exclusion from Super Friends (which was my first exposure to DC Comics). I wonder if the shapeshifting was too much for the HB animation team.

@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 I read an article that said it was due to him being written out of the super friends comics shortly before the show aired. I guess they were trying to keep it as true to the comics as possible.

@@skelly31027 That makes total sense.

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.

We may revisit it. They did put in a LOT of episodes, so there's a bunch of ground to cover.

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.

Thank you 🤗

Glad you enjoyed it!

I'll put it on the list. I'll confess that anime series are my geek weak spot. But I managed Pokemon, so maybe I can do DBZ.

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the show!

The point is to try your best and whatever you get wrong is a chance to learn something new! Glad you're having fun.

"At the Mountains of Madness" is a novella (40,881 words). Novels are 50,000 or more. It's pedantic, but there you go. I'm glad you enjoyed the episode!

We covered that back in Episode 11. th-cam.com/video/-7EuLHFBnLA/w-d-xo.html

I wish I had bought more comics in my youth. I had friends with mountains of comics so I borrowed a lot and read them then returned them. Now I wish I had a nice library of them. But, I do have some nice TPB collections which are probably better (I can read them without worrying about damaging an old copy)

De rien!

That is awesome! Thanks for listening and thank you for keeping us safe! I know EMT/Paramedic work is rough and often unsung.

@@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 thank you it can be at times and I work as a firefighter also but all the bad calls are worth it when you really help someone. I have a lot of things I've collected over the years while working public safety but the thing that's always ment the most to me is a note someone left on my truck one day after a terrible tornado came through my area it just said "thank you for what you do" and for some reason it ment more to me than any award I've ever received. Just knowing that someone appreciates what we do keeps us going and motivated.

@@skelly31027 That's awesome.

Indeed. I'm glad you had fun!

There's a lot of room for debate on STTMP. It's not particularly stimulating, but it's not awful either. I just recently watched the 4K Director's Cut version and it's better than the original, but it still has some issues. The pacing is tighter and it looks gorgeous.

I've gotta agree;as a stand-alone sci-fi film StarTrek: The Motion Picture isn't all that bad. In retrospect, I think that its greatest flaw is that it just didn't feel like Star Trek!

@@michaeltuz608 I'd disagree. It feels very much like Star Trek (in fact it's almost a rip-off of the TOS episode The Nomad). One of the best compliments I've seen for TMP is that it has probably Shatner's best performance. He's actually being managed by a good director.

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.

I'm on the fence about how much to "enhance" the video versions of the podcast. It's a sort of chicken-and-the-egg problem to get more viewers. Perhaps in 2022, I'll try something other than the simple audiogram version of the show. I'm glad you're enjoying the show, thus far. Happy New Year!

@@dorkygeekynerdytriviapodca7847 take it from me who has done this non stop for 2 years... it can consume your soul. But I'm starting to tick over now.

You're quite welcome. I hope you enjoy the show!

Nicely done!

Good point. I should have been more specific with that question.

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.

You bet! Best of luck with your recovery. I'm glad the show is helping you get through it. Looney Tunes is a wonderful way to pass the time.