By Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek is always oddly focused on baseball. Deep Space NineFor example, showing that Captain Sisko had a cruel love for the old sport and kept baseball in his office as a prize ownership. That Spinoff even gave us a fun baseball game facing DS9 crews against snooty vulcans, and fans still love to cosplay by wearing the same niners Baseball Jerseys worn in the episode “Take Me Out to The Holosuite.” However the Star Trek’s MANY The famous baseball game is likely the one directed to The next generation Episode “Evolution” discussing the 1951 National League Tiebreaker Showdown between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.
Star Trek writer likes baseball
If you’re a lot of star trek fans who don’t look at baseball in real life, a significant point of the “evolution” plot can be confused. This stage shows an eccentric scientist with baseball, and instead of making the classic plays in Holodeck, he created it again in his mind as a kind of reward himself. He shows his ability to do so by reciting the “Lockman of the first, the second, Thomson on the plate, branca in the mound,” which is directly discussing the aforementioned game between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, though Counting makes some importance. errors.
Star Trek: The next generation Showrunner Michael Piller wrote “Evolution” and a large baseball fan (plus it later), and he chose this game because it was very special. This combat with baseball titans led to the so-called “shot Heard ’round the world.” That’s kind of anger for the New York Giants Outfielder Bobby Thomson walking home in the ninth inning, someone who allows his team to win the National League Pennant. It makes the game 1951 not to forget sports lovers, but the baseball superfan of the heart of “evolution,” Dr. Paul Stubbs, actually gets a lot of details that mistake the game.
Despite Star Trek Guru Michael Piller in Baseball, he got some details wrong when he wrote the stubbs saying “Lockman at the first, dark on the plate, Branca in the plate . ” Because Giants Player Clint Hartung moved, the lineup is somewhat different. To be perfectly accurate, former Wunderkind Stubbs should say “Lockman second, Hartung third, Thomson on the plate, Branca in the mound.”
While he might have some details wrong, we doubt later, the great Piller who has lost any sleep due to the mistake … after all, this Star Treks script and baseball references that helped him get to work as showrunner at The next generation. Before Piller, Michael Wagner for the short showrunner but soon left production, and the “evolution” script helped Piller to win the executive producer Rick Berman. Piller later said Berman “shares my love of baseball” and that stubbs “hit him in the middle of the eyes,” which leads to a “partnership” where Piller became the showrunner this greatly You are famous. Sci-Fi Spinoff.
You have already, people: if the Star Trek: The next generation The “evolution” episode didn’t know much about baseball, Michael Piller probably didn’t get the showrunner job, and TNG It would have been going to keep something in a warm chaos instead of “changing” to one of the best television history films. And if Berman and Piller did not have the most ammunition of America, we may not get its own obsession with Captain Sisko’s baseball, especially “bring me to Holosuite,” a almost perfect stage of DS9.
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