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NegativeNull @lemmy.world

2w ago

Happy Birthday, James T. Shatner

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I wouldn’t say “coincidentally”. Sometimes characters are intentionally given the same birthday as their portrayer. Elizabeth Henstridge’s character Jemma Simmons on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD comes to mind as another example.
- Just like how Jonathan Frakes shares a birthday with William T. Riker.
  (Coincidentally, it’s the same birthday as Gene Roddenberry.)
  
  Now that's how you 'coincidentally'
  
  Ok, but when is Thomas's Riker's birthday?
  
  Oh come on... next you'll tell me that 24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case is just a coincidence!

My biggest claim to fame is that I share a birthday with Captain Kirk.
- Mine is that I had a drink with Scotty, at least in my imagination.

My favorite part is that Riverside embraces it.
https://trekfest.org/

Happy Shatday!

Breen, you say? 🤔

Yet the Kelvin timeline (Star Trek 2009) suggested he was born in the aftermath of Nero arriving in the past.
If he was canonically born in Iowa on Earth in TOS, does that mean the Kelvin timeline actually splits much earlier than Nero's arrival?
- Premature birth induced by the high stress situation? Kelvin must have been planning to get back to Earth in pretty short order if so.
  
  Premature birth induced by the high stress situation?
  Works for me! Obviously the real explanation is the writers wanted an efficient way to tie the Nero story into Kirk's story within the movie's restricted runtime - I think they handled it well enough.
- Yes, but not for that reason.

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