Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Star Trek (2008)

From 7/4/1976 to 6/2/1977 is: 333 days

3-3-3

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704270/

Zachary Quinto
Date of Birth: 2 June 1977
Star Trek (2008) (pre-production) .... Spock




From 3/3/1959 to 7/20/1969 (Apollo 11 landing) is: 3792 days
From 7/20/1969 (Apollo 11 landing) to 12/7/1979 is: 3792 days

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Release Date: 7 December 1979 (USA)

Plot Outline: When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.



I believe this "Star Trek" movie was scheduled to represent that I also saved the space shuttle from crashing on that first flight.

From 4/14/1981 (first space shuttle landing) to 6/4/1982 is: 59 weeks, 3 days

59-3

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Release Date: 4 June 1982 (USA)



From 3/3/1959 to 6/1/1984 (Friday) is: 9222 days
9222 * 0.3459 = 3189
From 7/16/1963 to 4/10/1972 is: 3191 days

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088170/

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Release Date: 1 June 1984 (USA)

Plot Outline: Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.


Assuming I created this artistic device and that I wanted to associate my wife with this other important event in my life, I would have made the following calculation from the known dates of 7/16/1963 and 4/10/1972:

From 7/16/1963 to 4/10/1972 is: 3191 days

3191 divided by 0.3459 equals 9225 days

From 3/3/1959 to 6/4/1984 is 9225 days and 6/4/1984 was a Monday. Since movies in the U.S. usually premier nation-wide on Fridays, I went with Friday, 6/1/1984, which was 3 days earlier, for the premier of "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Norris

Nickname Tommy, Ratso
Place of birth Jacksonville, Florida
Allegiance United States Navy
Battles/wars Vietnam War
Awards Medal of Honor
Other work FBI agent


Thomas R. Norris, USN (Retired) (born 14 January 1944) is a retired a U.S. Navy SEAL awarded the Medal of Honor for his ground rescue of two downed pilots in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam on April 10-April 13, 1972. At the time of the action, Lieutenant Norris was a SEAL Advisor with the Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team.

Norris was one of three SEALS to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Vietnam War.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16

Launch: April 16, 1972
Lunar landing: April 21, 1972
Landing: April 27, 1972

Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fifth mission to land on the Moon.




http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Release Date: 26 November 1986 (USA)




This movie opens with a guy digging holes in a desert and I think it basically reflects my escape across the desert in 1986 and 1987. The movie was released, I assume, to create a 3-5-9 connection to my escape across Africa. The premiere date was on a Friday, as are most movies in the U.S., and the next Monday was 3 years, 59 days, after I escaped into the desert from being a Prisoner of War in Libya. I completed that escape on 5/13/1987.

From 4/14/1986 to 6/9/1989 (Friday) is: 3 years, 56 days
From 4/14/1986 to 6/12/1989 (Monday) is: 3 years, 59 days

3-59

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098382/

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Release Date: 9 June 1989 (USA)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098382/quotes

Memorable quotes for
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Kirk: [responds to a tapping within the wall] What's that noise?

Spock: [tapping continues] I believe it is a primitive form of communication known as morse Code.

Kirk: You're right. I'm out of practice. [tapping]

Kirk: That's an "S".

Spock: "T".

Kirk: "A"...”N"...”D", end of word.

McCoy: "Stand".

Kirk: New word...”B"...”A"...

Spock: "C"...”K".

McCoy: "Back". "Stand back".

Kirk, Spock, McCoy: "Stand back"? [the wall explodes]

Scotty: [on the other side of the wall] What are you standing around for? Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?




From 2/14/1986 to 12/6/1991 is: 5 years, 9 months, 3 weeks, 1 day

593-1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Release Date: 6 December 1991 (USA)




The actress who portrays "Antonia" was 15.93 years old on 7/16/1970. The reason for that detail, I believe, is because Phoebe and I were arranged to be married, possibly before I was born, and we had some kind of ceremony in 1970 to represent that arranged marriage. The next step in that arrangement was for when she turned 16 and to see if she wanted to continue with the arrangement, or something like that.

"and do things right from day one"

From 8/8/1954 to 7/16/1970 is: 15 years, 342 days
342 / 365 = 0.93
From 8/8/1954 to 7/16/1970 is: 15.93 years

1-593

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759352/

Lynn Salvatori
Date of Birth: 8 August 1954
Star Trek: Generations (1994) (riding stunts: Antonia) (uncredited)




Sunday, 4/12/1981 - Launch of first space shuttle flight
Tuesday, 4/14/1981 - Landing of first space shuttle flight

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111280/quotes

Memorable quotes for
Star Trek: Generations (1994)

Kirk: You left port without a tractor beam?

Harriman: It doesn't arrive until Tuesday.



The actor who portrays the Midshipman who is killed in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" was 3 years, 4.59 months, younger than me. I assume this also reflects that I was almost killed on that first flight of the space shuttle, where I would have still been a U.S. Navy Midshipman at the time. That name Preston also means something I can't completely remember. In my artificial and symbolic memory, I had a friend named Preston Lee. He was a U.S. Navy TM3, formerly of the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, and he was attending Basic Electronics and Electricity School with me at the U.S. Navy base in Orlando, Florida, in early 1986.

From 3/3/1959 to 7/21/1962 is: 3 years, 4 months, 18 days
30 * 0.59 = 17.7 days
From 3/3/1959 to 7/21/1962 is: 3 years, 4.59 months

34-59

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252055/

Ike Eisenmann
Date of Birth: 21 July 1962
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) .... Midshipman Peter Preston




This release date was precisely 3 years, 5.9 months after 4/12/1981, the date of the first space shuttle launch. I assume I created that artistic connection because I have a material connection to both events.

From 4/12/1981 to 10/9/1984 is: 3 years, 5 months, 27 days
27 / 30 = 0.9 month
From 4/12/1981 to 10/9/1984 is: 3 years, 5.9 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout_%28Devo_album%29

Released October 9, 1984

Shout is a 1984 album by the New Wave rock band Devo. It was their 6th and final album for Warner Bros. Records. Keeping with the synth-pop sound of their last few records, Shout sounds very much of its time. Despite the popularity of synth-pop in 1984, the album was a critical and commercial failure, and ultimately led to Warner Bros. Records dropping the band. Following its release, the band went on hiatus for four years.

One of Shout's best-known tracks is "Are U Experienced?", a Jimi Hendrix cover that carried on the Devo tradition of 'mutating' famous songs which began with 1978's "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". Ironically, the cover was marginally more accessible and danceable than the heavily experimental Hendrix track, perhaps harkening to the idea of "de-evolution" through its return to a more conventional sound. Many believe this to be a smart move on the band's part considering the trouble with Warner Bros. Records at the time ("Are You Experienced?" being a 'sacred cow' of the WB catalog). As well as that Hendrix song, the chorus melody of Hendrix's "Third Stone from the Sun" is transformed into a guitar solo partway through the piece. The track "The 4th Dimension" incorporates the guitar hook from The Beatles' song "Day Tripper".