abs@rdin.UUCP (Andrew Siegel) (07/13/84)
Stephen Balzac recently speculated about the possibilities of replacing the Enterprise as the Star Trek crew's chief means of locomotion. One paragraph in particular caught my eye: > How about a new Excelsior-class (?) vessel for Kirk? Not Enterprise II, > but. . .what? Explorer? Voyager? Journeyer? Venture? Just some > ideas. Nothing, I fear, can replace the name Enterprise. (Discovery > is another idea, but Arthur C. Clarke might have something to say about > that.) It has occurred to me that a (subtle) link between Star Trek and Arthur C. Clarke may be in the making, to wit: I'm sure that you all noticed that the serial number of the Excelsior was NX-2000. Wouldn't it make sense (as Stephen hypothesized) that the ship intended to replace the Enterprise also be called Enterprise? And since it is very likely that this "New Enterprise" will be the next ship in the Excelsior Class, then wouldn't it make sense to assume that its serial number will be NX-2001? And doesn't the number 2001 have significance in a milieu other than that of Star Trek? Will "Star Trek IV" be directed by Stanley Kubrick? Food for thought... Andrew Siegel philabs!rdin!abs
bsafw@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS) (07/23/84)
If so, we were warned by Alan Dean Foster. In the novelization of
STTMP, Kirk reflects on the surprise generated by the discovery of a monolith
on the moon at the beginning of the 21st century... :-)
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