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What's the story behind the pon farr fridays photo? (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/startrek@startrek.website
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I understand what pon farr is, but where is the photo from? Which is the original? When was it taken and why? Is the original negative/print held by a particular organisation?

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://nitter.net/WilliamShatner/status/1169024084375678977

Seems it's a promo for season 2 of TOS and the show's new timeslot on Fridays. The lettering is a nod to Laugh-In, and the whole timeslot shuffle is a long story.

Also I see Google has completely given up on quotation marks around phrases. So that's fun.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I switched to DuckDuckGo a year ago as an experiment and it's slightly better. Like 10% better. I don't think they've done anything groundbreaking, pretty sure it's mostly just Bing, but I suspect that SEO spammers just aren't targeting their algorithm as much. Regardless, I have no regrets.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If it is a promotional image from the studio, I would imagine it said something like “Star Trek Now on Fridays” originally. I think “pon farr” wouldn’t have yet been well known enough to mention.

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    [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure it’s a photoshop job.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    There are certainly photoshop jobs of this image, but as far as I can tell, the black and white version with the sign saying 'pon farr night fridays' is the original. I'd like to know where the photo came from though.

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