Autopian Comment Sections Keep Mentioning Star Trek In The Best Ways: COTD

Something I love about our site is that our readers aren’t just nerds about planes, trains, and automobiles. Spend enough time in our community, and you’re bound to find someone who knows a lot about something that doesn’t have anything to do with cars. Star Trek talk comes up quite a bit in our comments.

Jason wrote about a brochure with babies sucking wolf teats on its cover. He also mentioned Romulus and Remus, the mythical founders of Rome. Data, presumably of the Lieutenant Commander variety, chimed in:

Romulus and Remus are famously two planets featured in Star Trek.

Lizardman in a human suit:

And Rodenberry knew some stuff… he got alot right. Take it from an off worlder. Although he somehow came up with the klingons, romulans, and gorn, just off of the Draconian Empire.

DialMforMiata:

Ironically, the Gorn was a Human in a lizard suit.

DialMforMiata means this in the literal sense, as Gorn characters — a humanoid reptilian species in the Star Trek universe — have been played by humans wearing lizard suits.

ShinyMetalAsp:

“Wolf Teats” sounds like an expression to show that something is the absolute best,
like “This new album is friggin’ wolf teats, man!”

AmberTurnSignalsAreBetter:

For some reason I’m both surprised and a little disappointed that this is the first article with the teats tag.

DialMforMiata returns for a second COTD nomination with a history lesson:

Mussolini was very big into Italy’s Roman heritage, with himself as the spiritual successor to the Roman emperors. Italian fascist art and architecture reflected a modernist paring-down of classical themes, so the faux-Roman design of the cover is pretty on-trend. Ironically, the bronze statue of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus is probably not Roman, and the twins themselves are almost certainly Renaissance additions. (Also, the whole myth might stem from confusion about the Latin word for “wolf” also being a slang term for “prostitute”, which makes more sense but probably wouldn’t make as cool a statue).

Frank C. chimes in:

The bronze wolf statue did exist in antiquity, well before the Renaissance. The other additions are questionable, specifically on the statue. The image in its entirety did, of course, exist in ancient times.

DialMforMiata:

21st century radiocarbon dating pegs it to the 11th-12th century CE, even though many scholars still consider it to be 5th century BCE Etruscan.

Matt wrote about how Land Rover and Stellantis could get into bed with each other and Tesla’s drainage ditch environmental issues. Canopysaurus:

Tesla is run by the Wizard of Odd. Stands to reason there’d also be a Wicked Ditch of the West, too.

Finally, there’s a new Mercedes-AMG product out, but oh my, why does it look like that? What happened to the company I named myself after? Kevin Rhodes:

Remember when a Mercedes-Benz was about the most tasteful and restrained car one could buy? I do, and I long for those days.

No, thank you.

Have a great evening, everyone!

Top graphic image: NBC