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Pop Culture Pit’s recurring editorial series: The PCP Connection, Useless Facts and the Meme Library.
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Riker Directed the Borg Movie
Star Trek: First Contact (1996) was Jonathan Frakes’ first feature film as a director.
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YouTube’s First Video Is 19 Seconds of Elephants
The first video uploaded to YouTube, “Me at the zoo,” is a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego…
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Newton, Hawking and Data Held the Same Job
Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Star Trek’s Data all held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, Data only in a future…
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Stephen Hawking Asked His Way Onto Star Trek, and Leonard Nimoy Passed It On
A promo shoot, a ride in the captain’s chair and one question to Leonard Nimoy got Hawking the franchise’s only self-playing role.
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Mae Jemison Went From Endeavour to the Enterprise, Thanks to LeVar Burton
Months after flying on Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison took a shift on the Enterprise in an episode LeVar Burton directed.