Can someone please give me the right words caption John Locke Picard is saying at the beginning of Star Trek: The next generation?
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December 27th, 2009
I mean what he his saying at the beginning of every chapter: “These are the travels of the spaceship Enterprise…”, I don’t remember the exact words…
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Jean-Luc Picard: “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!””
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Exactly what I was about to say.
And shortly thereafter… “End Transmission. You have the Bridge, Number one. I’ll be in my Ready Room. ............. Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.”
Oooh. Jean-Luc split an infinitive.
@AstroChuck
To be fair, I believe he was quoting Captain Kirk out of respect and nostalgia. I wouldn’t say the grammar reflects poorly on him.
No, no—you got it right, @Beta_Orionis. I am just agreeing with you.
Thank you ALL!
May the force be with you… oops, it’s from another star war ;-)
To the infinitive, and beyond!
The ‘caution’ to avoid splitting infinitives is a silly rule that we should not have to put up with. It’s as silly as the rule against ending sentences with prepositions—like my first one.
@Seek_Kolinahr- You mean he was misquoting Captain Kirk.
Btw- There is no other Captain than James T. Kirk.
Yay! A chance to demonstrate my Star Trek geekdom…
Original – Captain James T. Kirk, Star Trek, 1966: “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: To explore strange new worlds; To seek out new life and new civilizations; To boldly go where no man has gone before”
Modified – Captain Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1982: “Space, the final frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: To explore strange new worlds; To seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; To boldly go where no man has gone before”
Modern – Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987: “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds; To seek out new life and new civilizations; To boldly go where no one has gone before”
Newest – Ambassador Spock (Prime), Star Trek, 2009: “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: To explore strange new worlds; To seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; To boldly go where no one has gone before”
@MrItty Truly inspiring. I LOVE Star Trek.
addendum: in Star Trek: Enterprise, the character of Zephram Cochrane finally corrected the split infinitive, as he read a dedication of the site where the Warp 5 engine would be built:
“On this site, a powerful engine will be built. An engine that will someday help us to travel a hundred times faster than we can today. Imagine it. Thousands of inhabited planets at our fingertips. And we’ll be able to explore those strange, new worlds. And seek out new life and new civilizations. This engine will let us go boldly, where no man has gone before.”
And at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Kirk’s closing captain’s log introduced the gender neutral change:
“This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man…where no one… has gone before.”
I love The Shat as much as any other person (probably more), but I would much rather serve under Picard than Kirk.
Scenario: The Enterprise has just run into a strange vessel of unknown origin. Both ships, following procedure, hail the vessel.
Picard: “This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise. Identify yourself!”
Kirk: “Hi, this is James T. Kirk, but you can call me ‘Jim’.”
Which one would you feel safer with, whilst wearing a red shirt? ^_^
@Seek_Kolinahr- Well of course I’d rather serve under Picard if I’m wearing a red shirt as that denoted command in his time as opposed to the gold in Kirk’s era. Also I’d have a better chance of scoring chicks on Picard’s ship as Kirk would have been bedding all of them on his Enterprise.
J.T. Kirk is the ultimate cocksmith. Everyone else is just a poser. Jean-Luc only wishes he could carry his jockstrap.
@AstroChuck
True enough. Riker carried the womanizing over in Next Gen, though even he didn’t hold a candle to Kirk.
I wonder who’s in charge of handling all inter-stellar child support suits in the 24th century?
@Seek_Kolinahr- Riker looked promising during that first season but, as Q once pointed out, he was a lot more fun before the beard.
@Seek_Kolinahr Yep! Another good one. As more related trivia, my Father-in-law has built the world’s best Klingon (language) detector. :D
@astrochuck I don’t suppose you’d be interested in subscribing to Number One, then? For all your daily Riker needs!
@AstroChuck : Per splitting the infinitive and quoting Kirk. 1. Would Picard Know what to say as far as quoting Kirk? Is this quote so important that students memorized it in grade school? 2. And even if he was quoting Kirk, wouldn’t he be compelled by every fiber of his being and his accent to correct the mistake?
Can I just say, “John Locke Picard” sounds like an awesome combination of LOST’s character and the Captain! I would pay actual money to see that series made. They even look the same! Come on JJ Abrams, you know you want to…
Splitting infinitives is not really a grammatical mistake, it is just considered bad form.
However, as a writer, it is perfectly fine to use it, to give the sentence some emphasis.
“to boldly go” just sounds better than “to go boldly” or “boldly to go”.
Shit.Oops. Who left that there?! Okay let’s try it again… Space, the final frontier.
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