Re: The Wold Newton Family: Someone has less of a life than us
anonymous
August 23 2007, 04:54:21 UTC
I apologize for not sourcing my material better in the original post. It was late and I was tired.
Much of the information comes from the Wold Newton site that I linked to. I was aware that Wold Newton essays usually use different rules to link works together, but that doesn't mean that it can't be a useful resource. To be fair, it's not the same as actually seeing the episode in question - the website lists that Columbo episode as existing. Also, the Win Eckart page no longer uses Historical figures as links, according to the philosophy page.
The reason you don't remember the Indiana Jones is because it's only visible listed on a status display in the ST:TNG episode 'Coming of Age'. It's never referred to in dialogue, but neither are the various Star Trek references to Yoyodyne propulsion systems, the wanted poster for an X-files villain in Veronica Mars, etc. The existence of the Indiana Jones shuttle is confirmed at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki and also the Crossover Chronology. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Indiana_Jones This reminds me of another connection:Benjamin Sisko has a baseball card for the fictional Buck Bokai, who pitched a couple of seasons for the Gotham City Bats - connecting DS9 to Batman.
That Quantum Leap's pilot episode referred to a character from Magnum comes from Wikipedia as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap The section on the Magnum PI connection. I have not seen the episode myself, but was hoping someone else had.
Re: The Wold Newton Family: Someone has less of a life than uscrossovermanAugust 23 2007, 05:13:14 UTC
I tend to like two sources of information if I can't visually verify things myself. No mention of any of those actors appearing on Columbo is listed anywhere, so I doubt the connection holds up.
The name Yoyodyne can be seen a couple of times throughout the run of Next Generation - fleeting glances, but can certainly be seen. Again, the Indiana Jones name doesn't really tell us if it was referencing the "real" or fictional Indiana, so a shared universe isn't certain.
The wanted poster for an X-Files villain is very clearly seen in Veronica Mars - it's in no way similar to the very detailed status displays on Next Gen that were mostly unreadable.
Thanks for the Simon and Simon/Magnum crossover info!
And, yes, it looks like Quantum Leap and Magnum are also joined up.
Much of the information comes from the Wold Newton site that I linked to. I was aware that Wold Newton essays usually use different rules to link works together, but that doesn't mean that it can't be a useful resource. To be fair, it's not the same as actually seeing the episode in question - the website lists that Columbo episode as existing. Also, the Win Eckart page no longer uses Historical figures as links, according to the philosophy page.
The reason you don't remember the Indiana Jones is because it's only visible listed on a status display in the ST:TNG episode 'Coming of Age'. It's never referred to in dialogue, but neither are the various Star Trek references to Yoyodyne propulsion systems, the wanted poster for an X-files villain in Veronica Mars, etc. The existence of the Indiana Jones shuttle is confirmed at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki and also the Crossover Chronology.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Indiana_Jones
This reminds me of another connection:Benjamin Sisko has a baseball card for the fictional Buck Bokai, who pitched a couple of seasons for the Gotham City Bats - connecting DS9 to Batman.
That Simon and Simon crossed over with Magnum P.I. is noted at
http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/TV.htm
http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlist.html
and the wikipedia article for Simon and Simon.
That Quantum Leap's pilot episode referred to a character from Magnum comes from Wikipedia as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap
The section on the Magnum PI connection. I have not seen the episode myself, but was hoping someone else had.
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The name Yoyodyne can be seen a couple of times throughout the run of Next Generation - fleeting glances, but can certainly be seen. Again, the Indiana Jones name doesn't really tell us if it was referencing the "real" or fictional Indiana, so a shared universe isn't certain.
The wanted poster for an X-Files villain is very clearly seen in Veronica Mars - it's in no way similar to the very detailed status displays on Next Gen that were mostly unreadable.
Thanks for the Simon and Simon/Magnum crossover info!
And, yes, it looks like Quantum Leap and Magnum are also joined up.
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