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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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Rick Sternbach worked in a bunch of anime references all over the place; there's Dirty Pair references in a bunch of the filler text shown on computer displays, and Nanmo the robot even got used as a model for not one but two props on the show (The Egg, from Evolution, and the Exocomps):








tl;dr anime is real in star trek

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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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in order to get a blanket with the Starfleet logo on it, Star Trek 6 director Nicholas Meyer had to sign a thousand certificates of authenticity in order for Paramount to approve a merchandising run of blankets

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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gene roddenberry called william shatner to make him send an apology note after he was a dick to wil wheaton

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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MikeJF posted:

wasn't that p-stew who made him apologise?

It's been a long time since I read Wil Wheaton's account of it, but my recollection is that Wil got a phone call from Gene immediately after receiving the apology note, asking very specifically if he had received the note yet (and then going on to say "Bill's just an rear end")

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

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I looked up the Shatner/Wheaton story, and there's another anecdote I forgot that's funny:


The William loving Shatner story posted:

I walked into the stage, and took my seat on the bridge of the Enterprise D, next to Brent Spiner.

“I heard about Shatner,” Brent said.

Jesus, was this on the news or something?

“Yeah,” I said.

“You know he wears a toupee, right?”

I giggled. “No, I didn’t know that.”

“Yep. He’s balder than old baldy up there.” He tossed a gold thumb over his shoulder at Patrick.

Imagining Data saying "I heard about Shatner. You know he wears a toupee, right? He's balder than old baldy up there." is funny to visualize.

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