The Crying of Trek 49

[Dave Monroe]

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September 6: Happy World Premiere of Star Trek (September 8 in the U.S.)

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... Pynchon laces the book with Star Trek references: he has his
characters watch a sitcom named Say, Jim, about a starship all of
whose officers "were black except for the Communications Officer, a
freckled white redhead named Lieutenant O'Hara."

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Star Trek

154; "They styl'd it 'Trekking,' and themselves 'Trekkers.'; 486;
"Live long and prosper"; [Leonard Nimoy stated in an interview that he
"borrowed" the "Vulcan salute" from a hand symbolin Orthodox Judaism;
it is a blessing by the priests (Kohanim which symbolizes the Hebrew
letter shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai (Lord)]

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"Look what Pussy’s brought in,” leers a Half-Breed with a braided Queue.

“Brit, by the look of him,” cries a short, freckl’d seaman in whom
Stature and Pugnacity enjoy an inverse relation. “– long way from,
ain’t you old Gloak?”

[...]

Someone who in different Costume might easily be taken for a Pirate of
the Century past, gives Mason the up-and-down. “New one on me,
Cap’n...." ...

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Bibliography

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