• @Sharkwellington
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      Is there a reference to Elon Musk in one of the newer Star Treks or something?

  • Flying SquidOP
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    539 months ago

    By the way, if you want to know whether or not this is canon? It’s canon.

    In 2266, Kevin Riley, under the influence of polywater intoxication, “ordered” a formal dance to be held in the bowling alley on the USS Enterprise. (TOS: “The Naked Time”)

    https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bowling_alley

      • @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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        They even had bowling on TV through the 90s, actually. I used to watch it religiously before I was a teenager.

        • @Repelle@lemmy.world
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          I haven’t watched broadcast/cable tv in years. Is bowling no longer aired? I never paid attention to it so I assumed it was just always there.

          • @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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            It wouldn’t surprise me if it is still on but I don’t watch TV anymore either. If my memory serves me correctly, I saw an 80s rerun on ESPN about 5 years ago, but for the life of me, I have no idea why I was watching ESPN to begin with. (Nostalgia, maybe?)

            • Flying SquidOP
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              Oh, I didn’t mean ESPN. Remember, back then there were three networks. Bowling was a huge deal to take up that time.

      • peopleproblems
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        169 months ago

        They still have bowling on TV.

        Are you guys trying to make me feel older than I really am?

    • Davel23
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      NIxon had a bowling alley installed in the White House.

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    It’s the most critical part of the ship-Kirk uses it for showing off “diplomatic meetings”

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      I’m picturing Data showing McCoy around the Enterprise-D in Encounter at Farpoint-

      “Where’s your bowling alley, boy?”

      “We do not have a bowling alley here, sir. But we have a holodeck that can simulate a bowling al-”

      “I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT MIXED-UP MOLECULES! Where’s the bowling alley? This is the Enterprise, boy!”

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        With the size of the Enterprise-D I’m astonished someone didn’t stick at least a mini bowling alley in there somewhere

        • @rotopenguin@infosec.pub
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          A third of the ship is all Holodecks*, so if you want to bowl you could just load a program up.

          *Source: computed by taking the number of “holodeck is trying to kill everybody” episodes and dividing it by the total number of series episodes.

  • @shutz@lemmy.ca
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    169 months ago

    I bet it didn’t survive the refit. Actually, I suspect that’s where the “Rec Deck” from TMP ended up, though I have no proof (were the post-refit blueprints ever published?)

    • Captain Aggravated
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      Is there even a space for the “Rec Deck” to fit in a Constitution class? I don’t think it would fit where the blueprints show the bowling alley because the “Rec Deck” is at least two decks tall. The Constitution class is surprisingly small; I was a TNG guy and the Galaxy class ships are comically gigantic.

      Would be a question I would pose to a Youtuber by the name of We Travel By Night, who has tackled things like “The turbolift shafts on the exterior model don’t change from movie to movie, but the turbolift doors gradually move apart as they update the set.” or “the ship’s neck is so narrow that there’s no room for the turbolift and the engine plumbing to pass by each other, so how does that even work?”

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      I used to have them on paper. I got them at a convention decades ago.