Trekkin’ Trivia and other… trivia.
on March 1, 2013 at 5:09 PM
If anyone has the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual somewhere, you’ll have noted all the bits of trivia about the jokes hidden in the sets of the show. Often, this was text that was too small to read… before the age of high definition TV and/or a level of obsessiveness about fandom that our current era has achieved. Someone just found a trivia bit that’s akin to one of Doctor Crusher’s bio-bed meters reading “medical insurance” on the show Star Trek: Voyager. Apparently, a list of dead star fleet personnel comprised the main characters from The West Wing. Add that to the Tommy Westphall TV Universe crossover project and see what happens. 
In addition:
• The future with organic computers is coming, but the hive mind will be made out of rat brains.
• A few posts back, a woman was shot by her stove. Not to be outdone, a man was shot by his dog.
• And my post-apoc senses tingled to hear that the imperiled Metro: Last Light is releasing in May, emerging from the wreckage of publisher THQ’s bankruptcy.
A hive mind of rats? That’s …
The rat thing is really scary, for two reasons:
First, rat porn on the internet.
Second, if people become connected to the internet in the same fashion no one will every be able to agree on where Lithuania (or even all 50 states) are really. You think people being able to add to wikipedia causes problems, what happens when the entire internet is a shared experience? Do search engines pull up hits based on the strength of beliefs rather than the number of them? If so, angels and ghosts will top most queries and no one will ever be able to prove politicians lie ever again. (I think we are safer with rat porn.)
In the pilot story of the 1980s FIRST COMICS series “Shatter”, the tituar character is ambushed by some insurgents who use robotic “bug bombs” in their assault on him and his police cruiser. And what do the makers of bug bombs use as control units? Rat brains! “Cheaper than a microcircuit any day,” says Shatter…who takes a captured one and offs an opponent with it the same issue.