rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (07/16/84)
Indeed the "7" did have a dual meaning in "The Galileo Seven". Besides referring to a number of people (like in the Chicago 7) it referred to the number on the side of Galileo, NCC-1701/7 (as has already been noted). The 7 here means the seventh shuttlecraft currently assigned to the Enterprise (NCC-1701) or something very much like that. Columbus was to have a different number, but I've forgotten what that was supposed to be. There's no reason to believe there ever were Galileos 1-6. -- "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
merchant@dartvax.UUCP (07/18/84)
{ Maybe they're in the shop? }
Looks like I opened a den of worms.
Sorry about that. The line is one that always makes me chuckle because
a friend of mine and I were watching "The Galileo Seven", which seems to
always be the one that I see if I turn on Star Trek at random. Since I
have the novelization (I think it's in Star Trek 9) I've seen this so
many times that I tend to growl when it comes on.
Well, when the fact that Galileo 7 came out in the script, my friend turned
to me and said, "Galileo 7...I wonder what happened to Galileos 1 through 6?"
I lost it that point, coming up with all sorts of fiendish ideas as to what
had happened to the other Galileos. ("Well, Jim went into warp speed by
accident and forgot to close the docking bay doors. They all fell out the
back end.")
Gee, people actually do read the little snippets in the curly brackets at
the beginning of messages. What fun!
--
"What's this galileo doing Peter Merchant
in my soup?"
"I believe it's a barrel roll,
sir."arnold@gatech.UUCP (07/19/84)
Wasn't one of the shuttlecraft named the Copernicus? It seems they liked
intellectual explorers as the name-sakes of their shuttlecraft.
I don't remember the number for the Copernicus...
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Arnold Robbins
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