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I have two. Tonight I saw Trouble With Tribbles, remastered, big screen, and when we leave K7, a scene in the bar, way in the background, so that I never picked it up before... Not only is there a huge pile of tribbles on the bar, but the bartender's head is poking out of it, with a single tribble on top of his head. He's motionless, dazed into a stupor or shock or something... So that's why Quark's bar specifically has tribbles over it including one on his head...

Naked Time... Sulu with his sword: "I'll protect you, fair maiden!" Uhura answers: "Sorry, neither!" Neither "fair" (white) nor a maiden, which I seem to recall was used to mean "virgin" sometimes... Very clever...
 
I still don't get the thing about "the giants" in Trek IV, even though I remember when I was a kid if my parents were in the room for that scene they'd laugh their asses off.
 
Two ways to interpret that scene:
1) Spock was being sarcastic (as he is wont to do) and doesn't really believe that Susann and Robbins are literary giants.
2) Susann and Robbins are considered some of the greatest writers by the 23rd century (or at least by Spock).

Either opinion is valid. The point is that we can't make an accurate assessment on what future people will think of today's literature.

Although we probably have a better idea on how Susann and Robbins will be viewed, than they did in thirty years ago (when Robbins was still writing).
 
UnknownSample said:
I have two. Tonight I saw Trouble With Tribbles, remastered, big screen, and when we leave K7, a scene in the bar, way in the background, so that I never picked it up before... Not only is there a huge pile of tribbles on the bar, but the bartender's head is poking out of it, with a single tribble on top of his head. He's motionless, dazed into a stupor or shock or something... So that's why Quark's bar specifically has tribbles over it including one on his head...

Naked Time... Sulu with his sword: "I'll protect you, fair maiden!" Uhura answers: "Sorry, neither!" Neither "fair" (white) nor a maiden, which I seem to recall was used to mean "virgin" sometimes... Very clever...
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From Naked Time as well. Sulu with a sword is knocked out on the bridge and Spock orders "Take D'Artagnan here down to Sick Bay!" It was ages before I realized he was talking about a Musketeer.
 
I always thought the bartender in the Tribbles pile in TTWT was obvious. One comment intended for comedic effect is when Koloth says he wants his crew to be able to use the station as Klingon ships are "lacking in certain...non-essentials" (or something to that effect). When he says this, he moves his hands from head to hip height to make the shape of the "classic female form". But the scene is edited poorly such that his hand movements are not very obvious. Pretty sure I only first noticed this after I read about it circa early 1980s in Gerald's making of book about the episode.
 
The Wormhole said:
I still don't get the thing about "the giants" in Trek IV, even though I remember when I was a kid if my parents were in the room for that scene they'd laugh their asses off.
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I thought it was a little like the Beastie Boys being "classical music", the trashy authors of the 20th century being considered greats in retrospect.
 
The Wormhole said:
I still don't get the thing about "the giants" in Trek IV, even though I remember when I was a kid if my parents were in the room for that scene they'd laugh their asses off.
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Could you please elaborate- I don't recall anything about the giants in that movie?
 
Tim Thomason said:
1) Spock was being sarcastic (as he is wont to do) and doesn't really believe that Susann and Robbins are literary giants.
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This. I can't imagine Nicholas Meyer meaning it any other way. This is the same man who put A Tale of Two Cities in TWOK, named a Klingon prison camp with a reference to 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and filled TUC with Shakespeare quotes, after all.

alensatemybuick1 said:
One comment intended for comedic effect is when Koloth says he wants his crew to be able to use the station as Klingon ships are "lacking in certain...non-essentials" (or something to that effect). When he says this, he moves his hands from head to hip height to make the shape of the "classic female form". But the scene is edited poorly such that his hand movements are not very obvious. Pretty sure I only first noticed this after I read about it circa early 1980s in Gerald's making of book about the episode.
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Same here. I knew to look for it after I read Gerrold's book, but the editing in that scene really hides it (which I suppose is just as well, as it freed them up to put a female Klingon officer in "Day of the Dove" a year later).

Right now I'm drawing a blank on other jokes it took me a while to get, though. Let me think on it a bit...
 
UnknownSample said:
Naked Time... Sulu with his sword: "I'll protect you, fair maiden!" Uhura answers: "Sorry, neither!" Neither "fair" (white) nor a maiden, which I seem to recall was used to mean "virgin" sometimes... Very clever...
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Alternatively, it could mean she was not a damsel in distress and didn't consider herself in need of rescuing.
 
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