{"id":185918,"date":"2014-07-15T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/15\/your-moment-of-science-fiction-awesome\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:12:00","slug":"your-moment-of-science-fiction-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/15\/your-moment-of-science-fiction-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Moment of Science Fiction Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 160px;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/f792873ee7a9614bb3e58752de2cbcc9\/tumblr_n8l327E3Ei1qz9bu3o1_1280.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[trek]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/f792873ee7a9614bb3e58752de2cbcc9\/tumblr_n8l327E3Ei1qz9bu3o1_1280.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WKUqfZq.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[trek]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WKUqfZq.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YIp3A16.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox[trek]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YIp3A16.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/i><br \/>Click on the images for a larger slideshow<\/div>\n<p>Rather unsurprisingly, they both involve Star Trek, the original series.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a photograph of an an enciente Orion slave girl courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/post\/91523343029\/genius-cosplay\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom two pictures are of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/article\/first-look-original-series-phaser-universal-remote\">remote that is modeled on the original props for the Star Trek phaser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Phaser was created from meticulous 3D scans of the last-known TOS hero prop and is a fully functional, gesture-based universal remote control that can be used to control many home entertainment systems and other IR-controlled devices. The 1:1-scale Phaser is equipped with 10 authentic phaser firing sounds, a customizable personal lock code, tactile force-feedback, and it can store up to 36 remote commands.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d never thought about it before, but that pistol grip is profoundly non ergonomic.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to use the phaser, it would be hard to hit the broad side of a barn.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 150 bucks for the remote.  The pregnant Orion slave girl: priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the images for a larger slideshow Rather unsurprisingly, they both involve Star Trek, the original series. The first is a photograph of an an enciente Orion slave girl courtesy of Wil Wheaton. The bottom two pictures are of a remote that is modeled on the original props for the Star Trek phaser: The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1148,1171,1025,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fashion","category-science-fiction","category-technology","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}