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Ok, a big one for sure. Last night when Jane and I were watching our newest favorite TV show, " Heroes ", I noticed that Hiro's Nakimura's dad's license plate was very unique and I even knew what it meant.
Anyone else catch that small bit of trivia? 
The license plate was a NY plate with NCC-1701 on it.
If you know what this means, welcome to the King of the Geeks Club! 
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I hate to admit it.... I also know what it means...
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never knew the enterprise had NY plates on...
I never wanted to lead, and I never wanted to follow.
I just wanted to ride.
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Oh crap... guess I'm in the club... 
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never knew the enterprise had NY plates on...
But the point was, that his father was played by George Takai, aka Mr Sulu. That was the best part. A subtle bit of humor tossed in there for us geeks.
By the way, you know the difference between a geek and a nerd?
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By the way, you know the difference between a geek and a nerd?
i know this one
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* A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
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Ok, I stuck NCC-1701 in Google (who wouldn't?) and Matt Jeffries (designer of the ship) tells us what the ref # stands for . Sorry to the geeks who already knew - I didn't as I was never really into ST.
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I noticed who the guy was! Does that count? Very cool indeed. I like it that some shows appreciate that people like it and toss in stuff like that. Heck, LOST even had fake commercials on TV for companies mentioned in the show for people to go play some online game! I'm not THAT into it, but it's cool.
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Add me to the list. Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life on the plant.
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Heck, I even know what the "T" in James T. Kirk stands for.
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I knew it, but only so I could recognize a geek.
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I'm a geek! 
we should do this every weekend!
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I saw somewhere that he was to guest as his dad.
glad to see he is still thinking of the ship that made his
career.
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Heck, I even know what the "T" in James T. Kirk stands for.
Tiberius.
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I'm not gonna show myself up by posting that I'm a geek, but I didn't have to google what NCC-1701 was, or that I knew what Capt Kirk's middle name is... or anything else like that....
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Bugger...I just did, didn't I?
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Does this all have something to do with 'Mork and Mindy', 'The Jetsons', or 'My Favorite Martian'? No geek here... I am the Anti-Geek. But I do have a sister-in-law who still hangs Enterprise ornaments on the Christmas tree. I do find it all quite amusing - a tad sick - but amusing just the same. Live long and prosper, dudes - nanu, nanu.
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dang i not only know this i know who the first captain was
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I know what it means, I just missed it while watching the episode. I need to be more alert. The world needs more lerts.
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The license plate was a NY plate with NCC-1701 on it.
Have you seen the movie "American Graffiti"? The licence plate on John Milner's is "THX-138". Who knows that one?
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The license plate was a NY plate with NCC-1701 on it.
Have you seen the movie "American Graffiti"? The licence plate on John Milner's is "THX-138". Who knows that one?
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One Geek to another, a five year mission "Where no man as gone before" and of course "TNG" "Where no one has gone before" Live long and prosper my geek friends 
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dang i not only know this i know who the first captain was
Cpt. Christopher Pike, played by Jeffry Hunter who only appeared in the series pilot "The Cage" and "The Menagerie" which mainly just used clips from "The Cage".
Who, me a geek? 
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after "The Cage" NBC wanted to lose the guy with the ears
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Spock also smiled a lot in the pilot. The logic came later
This was pretty good to see this morning. Not a Heros fan but love to catch sci-fi references. (my personal favorite sci-fi ref was the ship from "Firefly" briefly appearing in the pilot of the new Battlestar Galactica)
BTW: John Milner's licence plate THX 138 appears in some form in all of Lucas's movies. ("prisoner tranfer from cell block 1138" is the version in Star Wars). It is a reference to his first movie THX 1138 with the title character played by Robert Duvall. The reissue with the updated effects they put out a year or so ago wasn't that bad.
And as to geeking out- Life is just much easier when you embrace what you like. If I cared to much what people thought was cool, I would have bought a Harley.
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I missed the plate on the car but new the meaning when mentioned. I'm a geek. As far a Capt. Pike, didn't he appear in a contained mobile unit due to burns he recieved?
South Park used that in an episode where a teacher had been burned but the wrong child blamed. Just some more geek trivia.
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Good job TM! I didn't know it was in all his movies, very cool.
OK who knows what R2-D2 means?
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OK Super Geeks! Who can tell me the name of the only character to appear in all three of the original Star Wars movies that did NOT have an action figure created in his/her/it's likeness?
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my personal favorite sci-fi ref was the ship from "Firefly" briefly appearing in the pilot of the new Battlestar Galactica
Yep, here's Serenity as seen from the surface of Caprica before the Cylon attack...
And for more trivia, here's the original Enterprise(NCC1701) hidden within the colonial fleet:
Nifty huh?
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Nope, it's not a major character.
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Nope, it's not a major character.
Ya know when I was a kid I had to order away thru Cheerios to get an Anakin figure!
So all 3 eh? Hmmmmm One of the bounty hunters?
And nobody knows R2-D2??
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and I even had to go back and see which ship your Hero was paying omage to (they run 1701-1701-D) 
