Topic: Standard orbit, Captain: Hadfield and Shatner tweet
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 01-04-2013 08:06 AM
So this happened [via The Atlantic]:
To which Chris Hadfield added the following this morning...
I'm proud of being Canadian, but after yesterday's twitter conversation am starting to question wearing this red shirt.
cycleroadie Member
Posts: 452 From: Apalachin, NY USA Registered: May 2011
posted 01-04-2013 09:31 AM
I follow Commander Hadfield on Twitter and saw the conversation before the Atlantic picked up on it, pretty cool.
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member
Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
posted 01-04-2013 09:33 AM
To that I asked whether another Canadian - Nicole DeBoer, who played Ezri Dax - was on Twitter. After all, it's the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
And Hadfield's red shirt would be perfect for that era, since that's the command color.
Jay Chladek Member
Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007
posted 01-04-2013 12:11 PM
Signs of life detected perhaps. But is it "intelligent" life?
I wouldn't worry about the red shirt. Unless some alien, machine or cloud creature attacks the station, he should be fine. If he goes to the surface of a planet though...
issman1 Member
Posts: 1042 From: UK Registered: Apr 2005
posted 01-04-2013 01:55 PM
Seems that whenever foreign (as in non-US, non Russian) crewmembers take up residence on board ISS, there's more fervour/interest generated in those countries. Kuipers and Hoshide certainly did prior to Hadfield.
Nor have I read of anyone famous in America or Russia tweeting Ford, Marshburn, Tarelkin, Novitsky or Romanenko.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 01-04-2013 02:20 PM
Perhaps because in the U.S. (at least), when celebrities want to interact with the astronauts in space, they do so by voice through Mission Control. Sports teams, musicians, former Presidents, movie and TV stars have all visited Johnson Space Center and called up to the station crew.
Shatner recorded a wakeup call for the final crew of space shuttle Discovery.
But if it's tweets you want, Britney Spears chatted with Mars Curiosity over Twitter...
GoesTo11 Member
Posts: 1309 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 2004
posted 01-06-2013 04:53 PM
With the National Hockey League labor impasse apparently about to be resolved, @Cmdr_Hadfield Tweeted his support for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I couldn't resist replying that the ISS would likely host the Stanley Cup before the Air Canada Centre.
Murph Member
Posts: 108 From: New York, NY USA Registered: Jan 2005
posted 01-06-2013 08:55 PM
I believe Hadfield questioned wearing a red shirt because on Star Trek if anyone from the crew was ever killed, it was the crew member wearing the red shirt.
GoesTo11 Member
Posts: 1309 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 2004
posted 01-07-2013 08:34 PM
Yes, "Red Shirt" and "Red Shirt Guy" are a joke among Star Trek fans that references the original '60s series, yet seems to have only really gained wide currency in the Internet age.
It's a nod to all the times the Away Team of Kirk, Spock, and "Bones" McCoy would prepare to beam down to the surface of the Papier-mache Planet of the Week, accompanied by an "Ensign So-and-so" you'd never seen before, in a red Starfleet uniform tunic. Guess which one likely wasn't coming back?
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 01-07-2013 09:07 PM
Since Shatner and Hadfield first exchanged tweets, a venerable away team has chimed in — including Leonard Nimoy (Spock), George Takei (Sulu), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher, yep we're spanning series) and (the real) Buzz Aldrin.
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member
Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
posted 01-07-2013 09:43 PM
Granted, Hadfield was Tweeting with Capt. Kirk. However, by the 24th century, a red shirt is the command uniform.
mikej Member
Posts: 481 From: Germantown, WI USA Registered: Jan 2004
posted 01-08-2013 06:04 PM
One can purchase a Star Trek-inspired T-shirt, red in color, which has EXPENDABLE (in the Star Trek font) emblazoned across its chest.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-07-2013 08:18 PM
NASA video release
Captain Kirk Chats Up Countryman on Station
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) speaks with Canadian-born actor William Shatner, the original Captain Kirk on the "Star Trek" television series, as well as Twitter followers attending a tweetup at CSA Headquarters in St. Hubert, Quebec during an in-flight event Feb. 7.
Hadfield had previously exchanged tweets with Shatner after arriving on the orbital laboratory in late December. Hadfield will become the first Canadian commander of the complex in mid-March and is scheduled to return to Earth in mid-May on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Jay Chladek Member
Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007
posted 02-10-2013 04:38 PM
I would be curious if NASA is going to send up a gold shirt for Hadfield to wear when he becomes the commanding officer of the ISS.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-10-2013 04:42 PM
You mean if the Canadian Space Agency will send up... Hadfield is not a NASA astronaut.
p51 Member
Posts: 1642 From: Olympia, WA Registered: Sep 2011
posted 02-11-2013 04:10 PM
quote:Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo: And Hadfield's red shirt would be perfect for that era, since that's the command color.
quote:Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo: However, by the 24th century, a red shirt is the command uniform.
It's actually not. On the original series, the red shirts were only security (hence the lone ensign that never made it back from the surface) and engineering...
YELLOW was always the command color.
Sheesh, I'm not really that big a Trek fan and I knew that without having to look it up.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-11-2013 04:18 PM
quote:Originally posted by p51: YELLOW was always the command color.
Actually, Hart is correct — because his comments were in connection with it being the 20th anniversary of Deep Space Nine. Beyond the Original Series, the colors changed. Captain Sisko wore red.
Gonzo Member
Posts: 596 From: Lansing, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2012
posted 02-11-2013 08:46 PM
Actually, you guys are all correct. You have to remember that the Star Trek timeline spanned several centuries (roughly 2156 to 2460 or so. On OUR calendar...).
As such, a lot of the shirt colors changed. And actually, in the TOS, command was not yellow/gold, it was light green. Due to the way color was filmed/processed then, it appeared yellow/gold on the old TV screens, when in fact it was actually light green.
But the point is, to discuss the colors and their meaning, you have to put it in context of the timeline. There were even changes of colors within a single genre. Kirk himself from TOS to the movies changed colors if you will recall. He went from the green/yellow/gold color in TOS to white and even red in later movies.
Then finally in the last of the various series, TNG, command AND engineering were red, medical went from blue in prior series to surgical green back to blue and science from the original blue (TOS) to blue/grey and back to blue, again the same as medical.
Geez, you'd think that space geeks would know these things...
And the comment about the "red shirt guy not coming back" is correct. It has always referred (humorously) to the TOS when the red shirt guy was, let's just say, expendable...
Hart Sastrowardoyo Member
Posts: 3445 From: Toms River, NJ Registered: Aug 2000
posted 02-11-2013 08:59 PM
And if you want to get really geeky, the ST:TWOK uniforms had white shirts underneath the jackets for command personnel. McCoy, the doctor, wore green, and cadets and trainees red and black.
GoesTo11 Member
Posts: 1309 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 2004
posted 02-13-2013 04:36 PM
Not (necessarily) Star Trek-related, but if you use Twitter and aren't following @Cmdr_Hadfield, I highly recommend doing so. He's quite active and has been "Tweeting" a lot of impressive and unique photos taken from the Station.
posted 01-04-2013 08:06 AM
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