From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: will.dockery@gmail.com   
   Subject: Re: General Order 24   
      
   On Saturday, September 21, 2013 9:20:35 PM UTC-4, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Bast    
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   > > Your Name wrote:   
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   > > > In article , Bast    
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   > > >> ToolPackinMama wrote:   
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   > > >>> Funny   
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   > > >>> http://evilpicard.com/?p=392   
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   > > >> I don't get it.   
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   > > > It might have been (slightly) funnier if it was General Order 66 as a   
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   > > > reference to the Star Wars Sith order.   
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   > > I still don't get it.   
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   > > Is it supposed to be funny because he got the number wrong ?   
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   > > And how does that relate to photon torpedos    
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   > Yep, the "joke" is that he got the numbers mixed up. It is playing on   
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   > the silliness of Star Trek (and others) having obscure, meaningless,   
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   > and easily confused numbers for important things. (Another example is   
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   > Stargate's code-numbering of the planets they visit.)   
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   > General Order 23  is (according to the joke) "Rotational shore leave   
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   > for all crew mamebers", while General Order 24 is apparently to   
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   > "Destroy the planet with photon torpedoes" ... only one number out, but   
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   > a VERY different result.   
      
   I was watching Kirk and the gang give the codes to destroy the Enterprise in   
   STIII the other day and was amused that apparently these same numbers and such   
   are used as late as Next Generation.   
      
   Not much more than that, just was an interesting, amusing moment, like this   
   thread.   
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