Talk:Beam me up, Scotty!
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"The Infinite Vulcan"
editWell actually William Shatner uses this phrase in the animated Star Trek series in the epsiode, "The Infinite Vulcan". So saying he never said it is untrue! Ok, it's "Beam us up, Scotty", but close enough....
Usage and meaning
editI think this article should mention the usage and / or meaning of the term.
138.243.228.52 05:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Due credit
editI'm not sure if it was written on Wikipedia first, or it appeared on Space: The Imagination Station first, but, either way, both sources use a verbatim word-for-word are present. On Space, it's in the form of a commercial. But, it is also a Wikipedia entry... And like previously mentioned, it's a verbatim quotation on both sources.
So, the question becomes, who got the information first, and who is failing to attribute credit where it is due? -Emhilradim 01:24, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- What exactly are you talking about? One can't assume that everyone here has seen all the promotions on Space: The Imagination Station. What's the similarity?--Pharos 03:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Also, what is this "Space:The Imagination Station"? Is it a television channel? A museum exhibit? A television show? What? Dismas|(talk) 03:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's a Canadian science fiction channel (actually I've never seen it, just noticed it's article before).--Pharos 05:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- "What is the similarity?" Well, let's examine... There is a group of people on an elevator, and a man walks in, pulls out his cell phone and makes a joke "Beam me up Scotty!" And then, like in all space commercials, a guy starts rambling on about miscellaneous and useless facts about this phrase, in this case, his ramblings are *EXACTLY* word-for-word the information provided on this page. I don't know how I can make this any clearer, because it's not complicated at all. One source is plagiarizing the other source, and I use the word plagiarising because they don't give credit to the other source. -Emhilradim 12:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Well, it sounds very much like they plagiarized us, as this article has evolved organically over the last 21 months. I originally wrote the part about Traficant, and I can assure you I've never watched 2 minutes of Space: The Imagination Station, and am willing to wager that few if any of the many contributors to this article are even Canadian. Now, Emhilradim, if you want to do a big favor to Wikipedia, you can record the promotion and upload it on YouTube, or if that's not technically feasible for you, at least make out a detailed transcript from a VCR recording so we can determine exactly which version of this article they may have plagiarized.--Pharos 21:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- I don't have a VCR -- I stopped using video tapes years back, when I moved to DVDs. And I have no TV tuner. Anyway, it's the paragraph about the fact that Kirk never spoke the line, but came close to doing so in Star Trek Generations. -Emhilradim 08:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, it sounds very much like they plagiarized us, as this article has evolved organically over the last 21 months. I originally wrote the part about Traficant, and I can assure you I've never watched 2 minutes of Space: The Imagination Station, and am willing to wager that few if any of the many contributors to this article are even Canadian. Now, Emhilradim, if you want to do a big favor to Wikipedia, you can record the promotion and upload it on YouTube, or if that's not technically feasible for you, at least make out a detailed transcript from a VCR recording so we can determine exactly which version of this article they may have plagiarized.--Pharos 21:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- "What is the similarity?" Well, let's examine... There is a group of people on an elevator, and a man walks in, pulls out his cell phone and makes a joke "Beam me up Scotty!" And then, like in all space commercials, a guy starts rambling on about miscellaneous and useless facts about this phrase, in this case, his ramblings are *EXACTLY* word-for-word the information provided on this page. I don't know how I can make this any clearer, because it's not complicated at all. One source is plagiarizing the other source, and I use the word plagiarising because they don't give credit to the other source. -Emhilradim 12:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's a Canadian science fiction channel (actually I've never seen it, just noticed it's article before).--Pharos 05:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Also, what is this "Space:The Imagination Station"? Is it a television channel? A museum exhibit? A television show? What? Dismas|(talk) 03:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)