Talk:Cultural influence of Star Trek
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[edit] Parodies
I moved this section here from Star Trek. Feel free to revert if you found that a stupid thing to do :) 130.241.18.31 07:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
No, that was a good thing to do. However, it's now getting so long that it unbalances this article. Let's summarise it here, and move it off into its own article. Everyone who likes it had better then put it on their watchlist, as it's bound to get nominated for deletion. Fayenatic london (talk) 22:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)- Change of proposal: let's summarise it here, referring to other sites which collect such primary data e.g. Memory Alpha's multiple pages on the subject, and delete it from Wikipedia. I've been learning that a detailed list of primary sources like this is non-notable and original research and therefore against Wikipedia policy. - Fayenatic (talk) 21:29, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I was just watching an old episode of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" on YouTube when I was reminded of the existence of the alien crook Kneemoi. Since her name and home planet (Roddenberry) are beyond-obvious references, I thought it probably should be in this list, too. Feel free to delete. --KyrieEleison (talk) 02:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] CITATION CITATION CITATION
Another use of the semi-new and admin-happy CITATION NEEDED tag was added to the line "Star Trek is one of the most culturally influential television shows". Couldn't this be justified in the article itself based on the extensive list of Star Trek spawns? Far too often, wikipedia demands a single piece of external hard evidence to back up a claim - in this case, one needs to be the judge for himself. I think it's self explanatory. I would like a discussion started from this. What citation does the demander have in mind. People on wikipedia seem to not bother trying to resolve any problems on the discussion board, they'd rather submit a complaint when someone changes something. Dkkicks 06:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Opening Sentence Has Odd Phrasing
The opening sentence of this article reads:
Star Trek is one of the most culturally influential television shows – and perhaps the most influential science fiction TV series – in history.
The parenthetical phrase about the "most influential science fiction TV series" is a subset of "influential television shows". As a result, the emphatic effect is not accurate and sounds, at best, a bit puzzling.
It's rather like saying "Not only is Bill Gates the richest person in the world, he is perhaps the richest geek in the US."
DanniGrrl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.7.199 (talk • contribs) 07:59, 3 July 2007
- No, it's like "Gates is one of the richest people in the world, and perhaps...". Fayenatic london (talk) 22:35, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] odd sentence
This article says there are "at least 120 video games contain "Star Trek" in their titles, mostly soundtracks (with no Grammy nominations) and audio books but also Klingon language instruction". I'm not sure I understand this as neither soundtracks, audio books, or anything dealing with Klingon language instruction would normally be considered a video game... Was there a part of that sentence that somehow got cut off of the beginning or did two points in the list get mashed together somehow? I'm not sure what to change it to to fix it. 75.177.179.253 (talk) 23:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- This appears to be the problem. Fix it up then request a citation. — Val42 (talk) 19:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:STTOScrew2.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
