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This popped into my feeds this week, from FactTrek. I swear I remember mention of her at the time of the movie - not in the movie itself, but somewhere outside of it, and referred to as Marla McGiver (instead of McGivers). I must be going senile.
Anyway, I found this snippet of lost dialogue interesting.
The ongoing thesis of this newsletter is that Star Trek is everywhere, whether you’re intentionally looking for it or not. And this week, well, there’s no way that acronym is a coincidence.
In a paper just published in the journal Physical Review D, the team detail how they observed six neutrino interactions during a pilot run of the Forward Search Experiment (FASER), a compact emulsion detector installed at the LHC in 2018.
Suitcase-Sized Neutrino Detector Hits Pay Dirt At Large Hadron Collider (forbes.com)
I remain fascinated by the unfulfilled promise of hippie Vulcan Xon. Maybe I’ll go reread this excellent book right now.
Xon was, of course, the Spock replacement for the aborted Trek TV series that ultimately morphed into Star Trek—The Motion Picture. I’ve always been sort of sad for David Gautreaux, the actor cast as Xon. He did screen tests and was hired for Enterprise action. Ultimately, though, he ended up as nothing more than that guy with the weird line delivery at the beginning of the movie.
But he was supposed to be Xon. Here’s his character description from the above referenced book.
Sure, the character beats were eventually incorporated into Data. But still. What could have been…
MEANWHILE…
Swiped from FB.
Flawlessly logical.
Do you have a Trek calendar?
Also, do you have any Trek bookmarks? I’ve got at least two stuck in books right now.
I suspect this experience is not alien to anyone reading this newsletter.
Similarly, I suspect anyone reading this newsletter has experienced this feeling.
Do you have a Trek tree?
That’s all for this week.
I leave you with this seasonal greeting.
Until next time,
LOVE long…and prosper.