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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador
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Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 2948 Location: Buffalo, NY
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 12:56 am Post subject: Where else should they rest? |
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Where else should they rest?
The original crew belongs where no man has gone before!
“!It was just something no fan would ever believe could happen,” Kris M. Smith said of her friendship with Kelley.
In the late 1990s, Kelley was diagnosed with cancer and Smith became more crucial to the couple. Smith’s boss at Warner Bros. studio, where she worked as a secretary, gave her time off to assist Kelley.
“The last month of his life I was pretty much there all the time,” Smith said. He died June 11, 1999. The lock of hair that is central to Kelley’s trip to space was procured that day.
“Mrs. Kelley asked me to take a couple of locks after he passed away because she wanted something that was physical from him, and so I got a lock and she got a lock,” Smith said.
In the years that followed, Smith wrote a memoir on her friendship with Kelley, “DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal: A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best” and moved back to Tacoma in 2004, where she now works as a freelance copywriter.
Meanwhile, the gap between fiction and reality in space travel has narrowed. Commercial space companies have entered what was once the sole province of NASA and other government agencies.
Some Trekkers, as “Star Trek” fans are sometimes referred to, became major players in business. Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder and Seahawks owner, named his development company Vulcan, after the the Roman god of fire — and the fictional home planet of “Star Trek’s” half alien/half human first officer, Mr. Spock.
NASA named its space shuttle prototype “Enterprise” and in 2021 “Star Trek” actor William Shatner spent a few minutes weightless aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket, becoming the oldest person to reach space at age 90.
One last trip to the final frontier.
In August, Celestis Inc., a company that engineers memorial payload launches into space, announced it would be sending up “Star Trek” actress Nichelle Nichols’ ashes and her DNA. Nichols died in July.
Also scheduled to be onboard The “Enterprise Flight” are the ashes or DNA of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, actor James “Scotty” Doohan, special effects guru Douglas Trumbull and others in 150 flight capsules.
“And I thought Dr. McCoy should be on that mission,” Smith said. “And I realized I had a lock of his hair.”
Smith contacted a friend who is acquainted with Celestis management and the company quickly agreed. Smith sent half of her lock to the company.
Although it’s still not scheduled, the rocket will launch later this year, Celestis said in a statement.
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket will first deliver a payload that will land on the moon and then place the Star Trek crew into a solar orbit in interplanetary space. The payload will then be named “Enterprise Station”.
Transporter
In the “Star Trek” series Kelley, in character as McCoy, often expressed his dislike for the ship’s transporter which dematerialized people into energy and then rematerialized them unharmed — usually — on a planet’s surface.
“I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget,” McCoy says in one episode.
Now, Kelley and Dr. McCoy will finally get to the final frontier with 21st century technology and without that troublesome equipment.
“He’s bypassing the transporter entirely this way,” Smith said. _________________ There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 17149 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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This breaking news just in from science fiction author, artists, and site admin of All Sci-Fi!
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Just imagine . . .
A race of highly advanced aliens intercept transmissions from Earth which include episodes Star Trek, as well as Galaxy Quest — the imaginative motion picture which depicted an alien race who created the NSEA Protector, based on a TV series the fiction aliens mistakenly thought were "historical documents".
So, when the "real" aliens view Star Trek and Galaxy Quest — along with several recent news stories about spacecraft payloads containing the DNA of people associated with the series — the aliens concoct a clever plan to send diplomats to Earth.
The diplomats would, in fact, be clones of the people from Star Trek, created from the DNA they acquire from the captured capsules!
And since these highly advanced aliens have incredible technology, they send the diplomats to Earth aboard a full-sized, completely functional replica of the Enterprise. The ship's crew is composed of cloned humans in Star Trek uniforms, all of whom are trained to run the ship — which is commanded by clones of a young William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy!
Think about it, guys! This replica of a fictional ship and it's cloned crew show up in Earth orbit and contact NASA to introduce themselves as interstellar ambassadors, The world is both stunned and overjoyed by the miraculous and seemingly impossible event!
Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy beam down and address the United Nations, explaining who they are, how they were created, and why they are here.
The purpose of this amazing display of advanced technology and flamboyant diplomacy would be to provide mankind with its "First Contact" with aliens in a manner so different than we ever expected that the shock and fear we would have experienced is overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of the USS Enterprise and its beloved crew!
In other words, no matter how strange and hideous the aliens may look when they finally come face to face with the people of Earth, the fact that they chose to create the Enterprise and its crew would make them seem like miracle workers who were here to help mankind!
Cool idea, huh guys? _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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