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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
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#0, Things I'm not sure I ever explained:
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-22-06 at 04:14 AM
In The End of the Tour, one of the Illogics makes a remark about his being "now available at Cargo Six!"

Cargo Six is a chain of discount/close-out stores found throughout the Federation. They're the sort of place where you can never be quite sure what they're going to have, but whatever it is, they'll have a couple hundred of them and they'll be dirt cheap. They sell stock from closed-out warehouses, the undamaged salvage from fires and freighter crashes, auctioned-off recovered stuff from hijacked starships, that kind of thing. Their ads always feature bold announcements that $WHATEVER is Now Available at Cargo Six.

The underlying reference, naturally, is to the overhead PA announcement in the Enterprise cargo bay during the scene in which Admiral Kirk has just arrived aboard at the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In the revised director's cut now out on DVD, all the sound effects and the PA voice have been changed (and generally not for the better, IMO, though the actual cut of the movie is far superior to the original VHS release). In the original version, which I watched far too many times in my younger days, the computer voice can be heard droning in the background, "Attention launch crews: a travel pod is now available at Cargo Six. Travel pod available, Cargo Six."

And now you know... the rest of the story.

--G.
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