…aboard a brand new luxury ocean liner has just been announced from the Royal Caribbean line. It is designed to be sixty feet longer, far more luxurious, and capable of carrying twice as many passengers (over 6000) as the current largest ship afloat.
It’s set to launch in 2009, just five years shy of the Titanic’s Centennial. Am I the only person who thinks that God is cracking his knuckles over this floating testament to hubris and saying, “Oh, PLEASE. Bring it ON. I double-dog DARE you.”
To make it worse, the working title of this thing is “Project Genesis.” Dude! You really want to name your new ship after something that self-destructed in “Star Trek III?”
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I have a mental image now of Admiral Ackbar rising from the depths, pounding angrily on the side of the ship, shouting, “It’s a tourist trap!”
-Rex Hondo-
They could have named it “The Democratic Party”, thenkw and good night.
This is the dumbest conversation I’ve ever seen.
Then why are you still reading it?
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Speaking of using unlucky names (and raising the geek quotient), there was a German TV science-fiction series called “Raumpatrouille” (space patrol) which was launched in 1966, the same year as “Star Trek”, but which was discontinued after seven episodes in spite of being a big success with the audience. In its first episode, the (unmanned) spaceship “Challenger” explodes after colliding with a force-shield…
Arclight: Further aside: I know the Savannah. I’ve been on that ship.
I’d be curious to known when and where, given that it was taken out of service over thirty years ago.
1 I think Kahn stole genesis and blew it up inside a nebula in star trek 2, creating the planet. The reason the planet exploded in star trek 3 was that it was made from a nebula, when it was really supposed to be used on a barren planet. Protomatter was used, but i’ve always thought that it would have worked if used correctly, after all the underground cavern was stable. Theres my two cents…
Toby, we’ve been going over this one recently on the Star Trek boards at Television Without Pity. The Genesis device was detonated inside a nebula, true; but its designer, David Marcus, said himself that the reason for its instability was that it had included protomatter in the design matrix. Had Marcus been able to resolve some of the design problems without resorting to fictional materials, there’s every reason to believe the Genesis Planet would have still been there (and Spock’s corpse would still have been dead).
Therefore, PAD’s right – it did self-destruct in III. Either way, I’m not going on its maiden voyage… (yeah, right, like that was even an option in the first place!) 🙂