Are you asking for Sports or Star Trek trivia? I can’t tell. I’ll do both.
Sports trivia: The Charlotte Hornets (NBA team based out of North Carolina) wear teal and purple uniforms because they were the first NBA team to hire a fashion designer to design their uniforms, and the designer in question, Alexander Julian, considered teal and purple his signature colors.
Star Trek Trivia: The NCC hull numbers are based on pre-1948 American airplane tail numbers. Nowadays American tail numbers start with an N, a maximum of 5 digits, at least one number followed by zero, one or two letters, excluding I or O. N123, N456A, N789AB, etc. N1701 is a valid American tail number, an in fact it is registered to a 1964 Cessna 172 in Minnesota. Bonus trivia: the aircraft registry is a matter of public record.
Before 1948, the category of the aircraft was noted by an additional letter after the N. NR123B would have been a Restricted category, like a cropduster. NG456T would have been a Glider. Most aircraft in the Standard category were given an NC number, so NC1701 was a valid registration at one point. Gene roddenberry made it look more ship-like by adding a C, to make it look more like USS.
And yes, Experimental aircraft got NX callsigns. The Spirit of St. Louis was registered NX211. That’s exactly where USS Excelsior’s NX-2000 and USS Bacula’s NX-01 came from.
Can you be on my trivia team? Also for a completeness do you know any Star Trek sports trivia? Trivia about Star Trek related to sports or sports related in star trek?
Captain Archer is a water polo fan, in one episode he says that water polo is played in a pool too deep to stand in. A regulation pool is 6 feet deep, so it’s common for men’s water polo teams to recruit men tall enough to touch the bottom in that depth.
Are you asking for Sports or Star Trek trivia? I can’t tell. I’ll do both.
Sports trivia: The Charlotte Hornets (NBA team based out of North Carolina) wear teal and purple uniforms because they were the first NBA team to hire a fashion designer to design their uniforms, and the designer in question, Alexander Julian, considered teal and purple his signature colors.
Star Trek Trivia: The NCC hull numbers are based on pre-1948 American airplane tail numbers. Nowadays American tail numbers start with an N, a maximum of 5 digits, at least one number followed by zero, one or two letters, excluding I or O. N123, N456A, N789AB, etc. N1701 is a valid American tail number, an in fact it is registered to a 1964 Cessna 172 in Minnesota. Bonus trivia: the aircraft registry is a matter of public record.
Before 1948, the category of the aircraft was noted by an additional letter after the N. NR123B would have been a Restricted category, like a cropduster. NG456T would have been a Glider. Most aircraft in the Standard category were given an NC number, so NC1701 was a valid registration at one point. Gene roddenberry made it look more ship-like by adding a C, to make it look more like USS.
And yes, Experimental aircraft got NX callsigns. The Spirit of St. Louis was registered NX211. That’s exactly where USS Excelsior’s NX-2000 and USS Bacula’s NX-01 came from.
Can you be on my trivia team? Also for a completeness do you know any Star Trek sports trivia? Trivia about Star Trek related to sports or sports related in star trek?
Captain Archer is a water polo fan, in one episode he says that water polo is played in a pool too deep to stand in. A regulation pool is 6 feet deep, so it’s common for men’s water polo teams to recruit men tall enough to touch the bottom in that depth.
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