"Hello, Scotty, dis is Koik."

[BoredShipCapt'n]

Why did Kirk think his affected Brooklyn twang would be meaningful on a planet whose culture was based entirely on Chicago?

Not that anyone else in A Piece of the Action sounded particularly Chicagoan, though...

 

[Warped9]

Why did Kirk think his affected Brooklyn twang would be meaningful on a planet whose culture was based entirely on Chicago?

Not that anyone else in A Piece of the Action sounded particularly Chicagoan, though...

I'm wondering what that planet could have been like if they had acted like real gangsters rather than the spoofed kind.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

I guess the people of that planet lived by spoofing, though. Extremely adaptive and imitative. And campy.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I'm wondering what that planet could have been like if they had acted like real gangsters rather than the spoofed kind.

Probably pretty damned terrifying.

 

[Warped9]

I'm wondering what that planet could have been like if they had acted like real gangsters rather than the spoofed kind.

Probably pretty damned terrifying.

Yeah, like maybe some of the Horizon's crew never actually left the planet...alive.

That could actually have been interesting. Not an exact parallel, but just enough and factor in blind adherence to what is laid out in the book.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm wondering what that planet could have been like if they had acted like real gangsters rather than the spoofed kind.

Probably pretty damned terrifying.

Yeah, like maybe some of the Horizon's crew never actually left the planet...alive.

Well, I'm sure it took some time for the Iotians to learn how to imitate the gang culture. They'd have to learn English for a start, and even that takes awhile. Full assimilation probably took at least 5 or 6 years. By that time, the Horizon had long since left (and been destroyed).

 

[Shawnster]

Why did Kirk think his affected Brooklyn twang would be meaningful on a planet whose culture was based entirely on Chicago?

Not that anyone else in A Piece of the Action sounded particularly Chicagoan, though...

Where would the Iotians have heard a Chicago accent, for that matter?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ One of the Horizon's crew?

 

[Push The Button]

Why did Kirk think his affected Brooklyn twang would be meaningful on a planet whose culture was based entirely on Chicago?

Not that anyone else in A Piece of the Action sounded particularly Chicagoan, though...

I'm wondering what that planet could have been like if they had acted like real gangsters rather than the spoofed kind.

We're all living on that planet right now, unfortunately.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Imagine if the Horizon had left them a copy of Gangsta's Paradise.

 

[HIjol]

Did he not do theater in New York and Canada...???

He cooda pikt idup dere douring dat thyme...

 

[scotpens]

Why did Kirk think his affected Brooklyn twang would be meaningful on a planet whose culture was based entirely on Chicago?

Not that anyone else in A Piece of the Action sounded particularly Chicagoan, though...

I'm wondering what that planet could have been like if they had acted like real gangsters rather than the spoofed kind.

I'm wondering what the planet would have been like if the Iotians had based their culture on Chicago, the musical.

 

[Redfern]

Or a Horizon crewmember left a playback device with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" stored within it.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Ssosmcin]

Or "Detroit Gangs of the 21st Century."

 

[Irishman]

I guess the people of that planet lived by spoofing, though. Extremely adaptive and imitative. And campy.

And never evolved beyond the stick shift.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Did he not do theater in New York and Canada...???

He cooda pikt idup dere douring dat thyme...

I don't think Kirk was a theater arts major.

 

[Melakon]

One of the things I like about the episode is the old cars. Memory Alpha only identifies one of them, the one Kirk uses, as possibly being a 1931 Cadillac V-12. Has anyone identified all the cars seen in the episode? They were probably showing up in The Untouchables a few years earlier.

 

[Shat Happens]

One of the things I like about the episode is the old cars. Memory Alpha only identifies one of them, the one Kirk uses, as possibly being a 1931 Cadillac V-12. Has anyone identified all the cars seen in the episode? They were probably showing up in The Untouchables a few years earlier.

Here: http://www.imcdb.org/movie_60028-Star-Trek.html

 

[Melakon]

^ Coolness, thanks. Somewhere in the family pictures (held by one of my sisters), there's a picture of dad and his family when he was a little boy, and the car is a 1911 Cadillac.

 

[Shat Happens]

Nice, maybe you should have them digitized so you can look at them anytime .

I love old cars. (But who doesn't?)