Trekkies engage (and rage)
Get your stats wrong and nobody blinks an eye. Misspell a name and a few folks get peeved. Flub some geography and suffer a few snickers. But messes with Star Trek — or comics for that matter — and all hell breaks loose. The Newark Star-Ledger of New Jersey recently felt the wrath of the galactic faithful over an error. The paper responded with this emphatic correction:
Attention, Star Trek fans: No more calls or e-mails, please! Captain Kirk did not often "cloak" the Starship Enterprise to make it invisible, as was erroneously reported in the "Biz Buzz" feature in yesterday’s Business section. In fact, the first known use of cloaking technology was by the Romulans in 2266, according to "The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future." Kirk and Commander Spock were sent on a mission to steal a cloaking device from the Romulans in 2268 during the first Star Trek series. And Klingons used cloaking in the movie "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock." This prompted theories of a Romulan-Klingon alliance, in which the Romulans may have traded their cloaking secrets for warp drive, reports An-swers.com. The Star-Ledger really, really regrets the error.
With thanks to Gary and Patricia for pointing us to this one.
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