[24] The RSMP are thus kind of a conflation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Napoleonic-era British Army's 95th Rifle Regiment (C.S. Forester's Rifleman Dodd, Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series), who were famed in their day for wearing green jackets instead of the standard red.

[92] Comparisons were almost immediately drawn between Socko Soda and the Nuka-Cola plant in Fallout 3, and there are certainly thematic similarities, but the inspiration for the interior of Socko Soda was actually that bottling plant in The Incredible Hulk (2008) - as suggested by Ardie when I noted that I was getting tired of setting scenes like this one in warehouses, City of Heroes-style.

In earlier drafts of Manhunt's early going, Socko Soda was on Salusia, Gryphon having adopted his straight-into-the-vortex strategy much earlier on - but it eventually became clear that he would have to go to Musashi anyway, and rather than have him backtracking, we just made Musashi his first port of call. In the end, it worked out much more intuitively this way.

[184] The stardates in the original Star Trek were completely arbitrary, but a bit of guesswork consulting the stardates of the last few episodes of the show vs. that of the first movie places this sometime during the last year of the Enterprise's first five-year mission - so, sometime circa 2269.

[229] "Go me, I've invented the iPod. Again."

[233] Eyrie Productions has no official stance regarding who plays the young Mr. Spock, though I will say that when I was writing this scene, I had just recently seen the new movie and heard all of his lines in Zachary Quinto's voice.

[285] Split Infinitive pretty strongly implies that Gryphon did not know Peter Preston, but we saw in The Final Simulation that this was not true.

[299] Harrison Chu and Mirrim Verron are original characters. In the movie, I'm not sure who would play Harrison, but I think (coincidentally? subconscious influence? don't know) Mirrim would be played by Dame Helen Mirren.

[403] Vanessa is the only Robotech/Macross character to be adopted outright into the Invincible's crew; several other crew members have names adapted from Robotech characters, but aren't supposed to be them (though Rick Sterling does look like kind of an amalgam of Rick Hunter and Max Sterling).

[436] Jamie is a character from the TOS episode "Court Martial", who comes to us by way of the Chris Claremont/Adam Hughes graphic novel Star Trek: Debt of Honor. (It has the usual Claremontian baggage, but not to an unreadable extent, and the art is gorgeous. A little more about this later.)

[449] The Marines are a departure from the way starships were crewed on Star Trek, and could be taken as a sign that the Split Infinitive universe became a more dangerous place in the decade between the events of Star Trek VI and the Invincible's disappearance. They are presumably an evolution of the MACOS troops seen in the later parts of Enterprise.

[474] We don't actually find out what happened to the canonical Valeris after Star Trek VI, but given what she did, it's likely that she went to prison, and the Jaros II stockade (which, over in TNG, also held Ro Laren for a while) is as good a place as any.

[686] This is as good a time as any to take note of what the UF version of Saavik looks like at this point in her career. In Split Infinitive's foreword I said the UF version was played by Robin Curtis (the actress who played her in Star Trek III); now, I am inclined to take that line a little further and say that the UF version doesn't really look like either actress who played her on film any longer, and turn once again to Adam Hughes's artwork in Debt of Honor. His Saavik is clearly based on the Curtis version, but her hairstyle is rather less... preposterous... and the lines of her face are, as comic characters' often are, somewhat idealized. Hey, my universe, my mental images. In this scene she has her hair braided, but it's normally worn loose and has a slight natural curl - not unlike Kaitlyn's will eventually be, come to that, though a much darker brown.

[691] This is actually a Vulcan Science Directorate field utility uniform, as seen on Subcommander T'Pol in the first couple seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise.

[709] Yes, it's the classic fight scene music, and the fact that it's a cue from "Amok Time" cannot be construed as a total coincidence, considering what follows.

[740] By this point in her life, and after much struggling, Saavik has adopted a variation on the modified style of Vulcan comportment typified by Spock in the later movies - always seeking to keep hold of herself, but not to the point of acting like a robot.

[766] From this we may infer that Saavik's choice of weapon - indeed, her decision to participate in the first place - may not be entirely coincidental.

[776] One of the fun things about the Manhunt project, especially in the early going, was getting to play around with things like the complex relationship these two characters have, which was only passingly touched on in the old Secrets. By this point, they have known each other for more than 30 years, and though not romantically entangled in the classical sense, they are... well, mates of a sort, in a way that most outside observers don't really understand. I'm not even sure they really understand their relationship themselves - they're just in it.

[828] He does.

[890] A drug from Fallout 3; unlike RadAway, which removes radiation buildup, Rad-X increases a character's radiation resistance, causing him to absorb rads more slowly.

<238> The Museum of Science in Boston is the home of the Mugar Omni Theatre (OMNIMAX, a form of IMAX). In the eighties and possibly nineties (I think they have dispensed with it now), they gave the audience a preshow to, well, show off their stuff.

It starts with technicians turning on and off lights, and testing some ungodly wattage of speakers. Then they cue the proper sound check, and get something like this:

Nimoy (each line coming from a different part of the room): Who put the bomp

in the bomp

she bomp

she bomp.

Techie: That's Leonard Nimoy! What's he doin' here?

Nimoy: I grew up three blocks from here.

Who put the ram

in the ram

alam

a ding-dong.

--rR