[net.startrek] Star Trek II joke

burton (01/04/83)

At last! It can be revealed! After completing 'Project Genesis',
David Marcus was re-assigned to work undercover in the late
twentieth century (using the well-known 'slingshot effect'
to time travel) in order to gather more information on how
we survived that critical period in history. To do so, he disguised
himself as a punk rocker and insinuated himself into the student
body of Weemauwee High School; his code name: Johnny Slash! Now
you can watch him every week as he tries to understand the bizarre
behavior of his fellow students!

[ Editor's note: For those of you who fail to understand, the actor
who played David Marcus in the Wrath of Kahn, Merril Butrick, is
currently playing the role of Johnny Slash on Square Pegs, a weekly
sitcom (Monday 8:00 PM CBS) about high school students at Weemauwee
High].