"47" in TOS

[starmike]

We all know the joke about "47" in TNG and onward, but how many 47s are in TOS?

I found two today in "Errand of Mercy"
One in "Balance of Terror"
There's at least one other I didn't write down. It would be funny to find pre-"in-joke" 47s in TOS.

Also, there's one in TAS, "More Tribbles, More Troubles".

 

[J.T.B.]

We all know the joke about "47" in TNG and onward [...]

Not me, never heard of it.

 

[starmike]

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[Spock's Barber]

Oh, oh. Maybe we're caught in and endless temporal loop....and we're getting close to 47 minutes after the hour.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The 47 joke didn't start until TNG. It was Joe Menosky's doing.

 

[starmike]

The 47 joke didn't start until TNG. It was Joe Menosky's doing.

Right, I said that already.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Okey dokey. Much apologizings for not being thorough.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Here's the numbers I'm playing in tonight's lottery.....

47, 47, 47, 47, 47

 

[Poltargyst]

I never heard of this before. (Might want to step back from assuming people know about it). But thanks to this thread I know about it now.

 

[Kor]

For years, observation alone led fans to notice that the number 47 came up rather frequently from TNG season 4 onward. It may seem like a coincidence, and I'm not sure when the production staff revealed to the public that it was an intentional in-joke.

Kor

 

[Vger23]

That's kinda weird

 

[Indysolo]

Scotty says, "I got 47 out of 150" in Generations.

Neil

 

[Herbert]

I never heard about this either. However, for me the time 12:37 comes up remarkably often. So much so that I started to take notice of it years ago. Maybe my internal clock makes me want to look at a clock whenever it's 12:37

 

[johnnybear]

A new one on me too!
JB

 

[publiusr]

37 is considered the first uninteresting number--or was it 247
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

I never heard about this either. However, for me the time 12:37 comes up remarkably often. So much so that I started to take notice of it years ago. Maybe my internal clock makes me want to look at a clock whenever it's 12:37

the smallest integer that does not appear in an entry of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences was (later) found to beThe number fitting this definition later became 12407

 

[geotrek]

Yeah, never hear it either.

 

[Kor]

The 47 joke didn't start until TNG. It was Joe Menosky's doing.

It was his way of referencing the 47 Society from his alma mater, Ponoma College: http://www.47.net/47society/

Whoa, that website is a blast from the past.

Kor

 

[cultcross]

There are even more visual examples - for example, Hawking's winning hand in Descent contains.... 4 sevens.

I think it is a little like that video with the gorilla that no-one notices. Unless you point it out, you never notice the 47 thing, and it really is blatant once you look.

 

[Qonundrum]

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"74" is 47 reversed, lol.

I wonder if these are in-jokes to M*A*S*H 4077...

 

[Herbert]

37 is considered the first uninteresting number--or was it 247
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox



the smallest integer that does not appear in an entry of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences was (later) found to beThe number fitting this definition later became 12407

Math make Hulk head hurt.