Comments on: Star Trek Goes NASCAR

By: Isidra Haydal

Isidra Haydal — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:19:38 +0000

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By: Imperion

Imperion — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:34:24 +0000

as a fan of NASCAR, Star Trek, and Dodge cars, I have to say this was one of the koolest things I’ve ever seen! They better make a diecast of this car!

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:13:16 +0000

Ugh, I was sooooo mad when David crashed. He’s a pretty interesting driver to watch… I was soo stoked to see that my favourite driver was driving the Star Trek car!!! Unfortunately the wreck caused me to swear and throw things at the television at work.. It was very difficult to see David and the most beautiful car on the track get wrecked.

By: Dave in RI

Dave in RI — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:08:31 +0000

45. manufan – May 3, 2009
God NASCAR has to be the most boring “sport” on the planet

Um, no. That dubious honor goes to watching golf.

By: Daoud

Daoud — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:00:44 +0000

#56 On the road track races, NASCAR does turn right. Also getting out of the pits on the ovals (tight with 42 cars) you have to turn sharp to the right if someone’s in front of you.

And of course, when a winner on an oval takes a victory lap going clockwise…

There’s something “physical” about how they go around turning left, it makes for a “direct” or “prograde” revolution.. (a/k/a ‘anti-clockwise’). Kind of like how if you look down on the Earth from above the North Pole…

By: Rastaman

Rastaman — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:32:06 +0000

I protest! That Star Trek Space Fun Helmet is not canon (and looks like no fun at all)!

By: Olley Olley Olley

Olley Olley Olley — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:28:32 +0000

can Nascar turn right?
is it a limitation of the car or the driver?

By: Daoud

Daoud — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:51 +0000

NASCAR has the advantage of racing at tracks especially built to allow fans to sit and imbibe. F1 and European racing often is in cities, over regular roads (or parts of them) and has specialty tracks that aren’t ovals so the fans don’t get the constant activity to watch.

Yeah, one car going 220 mph on a 2.66 mile tri-oval might be dull… but multiply that and have 42 cars all at once doing this.

*That* is where it gets interesting.

Too bad that they didn’t use the 01 number for the car. ;) Imagine the Star Trek 01. :)

#22 Thank you for repeating my oft-used “Engineering won’t be installed until next Tuesday” in honor of the Harriman lines in Star Trek: Generations to Kirk.

I’ve decided that the JJprise simply has multiple levels of engineering, and this level we see (the brewery) is like the “tank” level. Those of you with the original blueprints will recall the “matter storage tanks”. Well, let’s say one of the forms of matter stored is water. Probably the most important one to be moving around. “Real” engineering is one floor down, and not available today. ;)

By: James 1701

James 1701 — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:28:12 +0000

Oh yeah NASCAR is so unpopular overseas that Juan Montoya ditched F1 to race in it. *sarcasm*

By: James 1701

James 1701 — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:24:23 +0000

Governator probably drives a wimpmobile. The insecure have to attack others to feel complete.