User:ShutterBugTrekker

Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are my favorite TV shows. Star Trek: Enterprise, the new show, sucks, but I still watch it every week. I don't have cable, so I don't watch the original series, and I'm holding out for when they put out those episodes in boxed sets, cause I'm not gonna buy a DVD just for two episodes.

I've been taking a lot of pictures with disposable cameras (point 'n shoot) and loving it. I've decided to move up to a professional camera and I'm thinking either a Canon EOS or a Minolta Maxxum. I've been reading books about manual film cameras. I don't think I'm quite ready to go digital. Digital cameras today just fall way short of cameras in the 24th century (wink). I created the page List of photographic equipment makers to track which manufacturers are not yet represented on Wikipedia.

I'm gonna make it my little project to make sure there is an article on each primary character and each important secondary character on each of the Star Trek shows (except Enterprise, which I don't care about). Tertiary characters I will list, but nothing beyond that.

I used to have a list of secondary and tertiary Star Trek characters on this page, but there are others who think the list is a good idea and now it has been incorporated into List of Star Trek characters.

Contents

1 My 47 Sightings 1.1 47s in Star Trek 1.2 47s in Others 2 My 42 Sightings 2.1 42 in Star Trek 3 Star Trek Lyrics

My 47 Sightings

Here I will list my sightings of the number 47 in the Star Trek movies and episodes, as well as in other movies and TV shows.

Now, different fans of spotting 47 have different criteria. My criteria is that the number must be clearly audible or clearly visible. If I have to use closed captioning, or zooming in or freeze-frame, then I don't care. I don't care much for substrings, and even less when the total string is very long (though I might still list them, but I won't count them). You can easily find substring 47s in the seventh season of TNG, for example.

Lastly, if you have spotted any of these before me and you have proof, please let me know.

47s in Star Trek

1. Star Trek: Voyager "The Chute" The 47th Voyager episode. Tom Paris is wrongly convicted of killing 47 Akritirian patrolers.
2. VGR, "False Profits" After a visit from Neelix impersonating a messenger of the Grand Nagus, Arridor tells Kol that they must turn to the Rules of Acquisition for guidance, to the fully annotated edition with all 47 commentaries. (47 occurs earlier in the episode as a substring when Arridor is counting the profits from Ganar province).
3. VGR, "Future's End, Part II" Starling's assistant uses communication satellite SATCOM 47 to beam Starling off Voyager.
4. TNG, "Family" At dinner with his brother's family, Picard incorrectly identifies wine he's served as being of '46 vintage when it is in fact '47. Before returning to the Enterprise, his brother gives him a bottle of the '47.
5. VGR, "Alter Ego" Just before Tuvok beams over to Marayna's station, Chakotay reports "Shields down to 47 percent."
6. VGR, "Rise" Once Neelix stabilizes the mag-lev carriage, he reports: "Velocity: 47 kilometers per hour and holding."
7. DS9, "The Sons of Mogh" After Klingons ignore the detonation of a single cloaked mine, Kira gives the order to "Detonate all the mines in grids 22 alpha through 47 gamma."
8. VGR, "Distant Origin" A Saurian scientist says that the skeleton they found is "from a species found nowhere in known space. And yet, we share 47 genetic markers with this being." Later, when the Doctor examines a Saurian, he also counts 47 genetic markers in common.
9. VGR, "Worst Case Scenario" At the staff meeting, Chakotay reports the holoprogram Insurrection Alpha "has been accessed 47 times by 33 different crewmembers."
10. VGR, "Message in a Bottle" Janeway says "We're in the Delta Quadrant, at coordinates 18 mark 205 mark 47." Back in the Alpha Quadrant, a Romulan commander who's commandeered the USS Prometheus calls for "Attack pattern beta-four-seven."
11. VGR, "Night" Tom Paris reports 47 seconds to the vortex.
12. VGR, "Extreme Risk" B'Elanna Torres could stand to watch a Maquis massacre reenactment on the holodeck for only 47 seconds.

Assorted substrings: LAPD patrol 247-Baker chases Captain Braxton (VGR, "Future's End, Part I"). Starling opens temporal rift at 096 mark 347 (VGR, "Future's End, Part II"). Twice in Data's very long password (TNG, "Brothers"). Substring in stardate of Tuvok's log (VGR, "Alter Ego"). Timed target practice result 3:47 (DS9, "Return To Grace"). Temporal variance of torpedo causing Kes's time shifts is 1.47 microseconds (VGR, "Before and After"). Astral eddy bearing 047 mark 19 (VGR, "Real Life"). Tuvok's code "Security clearance Tuvok 4-7-7-4." (VGR, "Worst Case Scenario"). Jake Sisko often writes short stories and news reports on a padd numbered 4747 (DS9, "...Nor the Battle to the Strong" is one example). Tendara Colony native Annika Hansen's birthdate is stardate 25479 (VGR, "The Gift"). The temporal variance of that chroniton torpedo, 1.47, shows up again in VGR, "Year of Hell, Part I", but Kes is not there to be affected by it. As Shakaar says goodbye to Kira, it announced over the comm that "Shuttle 4709 to Bajor now departing" (DS9, "The Begotten"). Chief Medical Officer's Log, Stardate 51471.3 (VGR, "Waking Moments"). Kim reports the Hirogen ship is "on a heading 274 mark 13" (VGR, "Hunters"). To perform a risky Maquis maneuver, Sisko orders the computer to "Disengage safeties, authorization Sisko A-4-7-1 (DS9, "Blaze of Glory"). Seven orders the computer to "adjust heading by .347 starboard" (VGR, "One").

Almost but not quite: Kira tells Tora Ziyal that a particular kind of Cardassian rifle has an energy output of 4.7 megajoules; if there was a prefix between "myria-" (10K and "mega-" (1M), she could've said 47 (prefix)joules (DS9, "Return To Grace").

Reaching: Tuvok counts 94 custom habitats constructed by the Nyrians, that is, twice 47 (VGR, "Displaced"). Data feeds Spot Feline Supplement #74, that is, 47 backwards (TNG, "Data's Day"). Seven of Nine reports damage on decks 4, 7, 8 and 12 (VGR, "Year of Hell, Part I"). The Grand Nagus's access code is 374/156, and one of the ticker numbers is 7 3/4 (DS9, "Business as Usual"). Quark auctions off a sculpture, then moves on to Lot 48, then Lot 49, implying the sculpture was Lot 47 (DS9, "In The Cards").

47s in Others

1. Family Guy "Damnit, Janet" When Lois finds her husband Peter on the same plane she's working as a flight attendant, she's mad. She complains "I've seen that crappy Julia Roberts movie 47 times!"
2. The Simpsons "Girly Edition" Kent Brockman teaches Bart about human interest stories and plays a tape labeled "Kent Cares #47".
3. That '70s Show "Sparks" For much of the episode, Eric wears a red shirt with the number 47 in silver on the front (I think it's on the back too, but I'm not sure).
4. King of the Hill "Peggy the Boggle Champ" While anxiously trying to fix the carpet at the Hill residence while Hank and Peggy are away at a Boggle tournament, Luanne tells Bobby "Your parents are gonna be home in 47 hours!"
5. Back to the Future Part I Near the end, Doc Brown tells Marty he's going 30 years into the future because it's a "nice, round number." Marty replies, "Look me up when you get there. Guess I'll be about 47[-years-old]."
6. Back to the Future Part II When the cops find the 17-year-old Jennifer McFly in 2015 and read her record, one cop exclaims "47!? That's a hell of a good facelift!"
7. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back A droid tells Luke they won't have time to get the T-47s off the Hoth base.
8. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi During the battle to destroy the incomplete death star, a Rebel coordinator reports "Admiral, we have enemy ships in Sector 47."
9. Saturday Night Live The episode with Topher Grace hosting, January 15, 2005. Rachel Dratch as an old prostitute tells Topher Grace as a young customer: "I've worked at this establishment for 47 years."
10. Revolution OS A VA Linux guy says that all morning they've gotten comments about the stock price, "is it $41, $42, $47, $53? Is it $51." I find it interesting he went from 42 to 47.
11. City Hunter Jackie Chan's rapper sidekicks use a transmitter, "the new 47," to send a distress call.
12. Scrubs "My Lips Are Sealed" Dr. Reed stood outside a patients door "47, 48 minutes" before getting up the courage to see him.
13. Scrubs "My Changing Ways" J.D. moves out of apartment 46 across the hall into apartment 47.

Assorted substrings: The Simpsons, "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Bart tells Lisa that the school's photocopier code is 147, and that his "butt feel warm just thinking about it." In Back to the Future Part III, in a letter from 1885, Doc Brown tells Marty that "Suitable replacement parts will not be invented until 1947." At the end of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Slytheryn has 472 points (thanks to anonymous user for that one).

Reaching: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Han Solo asks Obi-Wan to meet him at Docking Bay 94, that is, 47 twice. Scrubs "My Lips Are Sealed" Jordan worries that if her son Jack's injury had been "4 inches to the left and 7 inches deeper, it would've scratched his eye!"

Very hard reaching: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Princess Leia is held in Cell Block 1138, that is, (3 + 1) * 10 + (8 - 1) = 47. Much more likely, however, this is an in-joke to THX-1138.

My 42 Sightings

42 in Star Trek

1. VGR, "One" Seven reports Paris's pulse as 42.

Assorted substrings: Tuvok reports distance to the probe as 42000 kilometers (VGR, "Extreme Risk").

Star Trek Lyrics

The Doctor, to the tune of Verdi's La Donna Immobile: "Oh Tuvok, I understand, You're a Vulcan man. You've just gone without For seven years just about. Mr. Paris please find a way To load a hypospray I will give you a sign, Just aim for his behind. Hormones are raging Synapses blazing It's all very illogical.