Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-05 (Monday)

On 5/7/2025 7:13 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/6/2025 6:20 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 5/6/2025 5:39 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S1E17 'Bad Dreams'.  Olivia kills people in her sleep.  (Well, wouldn't you if you worked with Dr. Bishop?)  In Nick Lane's flat there is a wall filled with clippings. In the midst of this mass of clippings is a sheet of paper on which the number 47 is written. The number 47, besides being a prime number, has been attributed as being a random number which occurs with unusual frequency and so has a certain mystique. There is perhaps a humorous mathematical proof of this by Pomona College's math professor Donald Bentley. Regardless of this purported mystique, the number has been used in Alias (2001), another J.J. Abrams project, as a central plot device for the series.
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I think Star Trek also had a tendency to stick the number 47 in as an Easter egg from time to time.
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If you are talking about the Abrams Trek I'm sure he did.
 

It was before Abrams.  They've been sticking the number 47 in Trek since TNG.  Apparently it started with TNG writer Joe Menosky and other writers noticed and kept doing it too.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/47
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-47-meaning-franchise-repeat/