Episode 171, "Phaser beam computers"

News

Darrell is watching To Be Takei on Netflix.

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Ten Forward:

What DO those logos mean in the TOS insignias?

Star: Command – like "jason of"

Basketball (or atom / chemical / orbiting objects)

E is for engineering, styled to resemble a bolt

Lights of Zetar – Scotty has a basketball insignia on a red shirt.

Star Trek in pop culture:

Jobs. 2013. Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad. – This is the conversation between Jobs and Woz that named Apple Computer.

(Clip: 00:55)

Episode insight: DS9, S4: The Quickening

Character insight – Miles O’Brien

Subspace communications

Ken P.

3Episode: http://www.thisweekintrek.com/?p=485

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