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Captain James Tiberius Kirk and his dilithium-powered toilet plunger with 4-dimensional crystalline scrubbing bubbles was no match for the tribbles clogging the septic system of NCC-1701. From Wiki:
“According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number ‘NCC-1701’ was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space. Jefferies, who was a pilot, based NCC on 20th century aircraft registration codes. In such 20th century usage, an ‘N’ first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the USA. A ‘C’ for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added a second ‘C’, just because he thought it looked better.”
BFD. I might have cared about that kind of trivia as a teenager, but most of us grew out of it. Times change, and around here, the BFD trivia is referred to as
The Overnight Open Thread.
