Rocktrek Files

Some people say that Everything Is Star Trek. Some people say not. Some aren’t sure.

But the evidence speaks for itself.

a mosaic of images: Nichelle Nichols as Uhura faces an unnamed crewman; James Garner as Rockford assumes the position on his Firebird at the behest of a policeman; William Shatner as Kirk plays cards with Lee Delano as Kalo; Lee Delano as "Man with Flat Tire" sits in a car with a flat tire; Garner as Rockford peers wilily from behind a lamppost.
Screenshots from “The Man Trap”, “In Pursuit of Carol Thorne”,
“Where No Man Has Gone Before”, and “A Piece of the Action”.

In the upper left panel we see the Incredible Salt Vampire threatening Lt. Uhura in the guise of a crewman. It later faked its own death on the Enterprise, lived for a time stealing salt from the galley and living on the hangar deck, and finally escaped from the Enterprise when the ship visited Earth in the mid-1960s. In the upper center panel we see the Incredible Salt Vampire, 7 or 8 years older, in the guise of a city cop, attempting to draw the salt of life from the shoulderblade of Intertemporal Missions Force Agent (disavowed) James S. Rockford. The vampire was defeated by the filtering effects of 1970s polyester, a primitive material unknown to the creature’s advanced science.

(James Scott Rockford, collateral ascendant of Montgomery Scott, was also, as is now known, the distant ancestor of James Kirk. The proof of that was staring us in the face all the time: why else would Gary Mitchell, Kirk’s longtime friend, make a tombstone with the name “James R. Kirk” when he must have known that Kirk’s middle initial was T-for-Tiberius? Clearly he was taunting Kirk with the Rockford family’s long tradition of Federation service. Kirk later killed Mitchell for making light of the sacred name of Rockford, as was only fair and just.)

In the lower left panel, we see Captain James T. Kirk teaching Kalo, a gangster on the planet Iotia, the game of Fizzbin. In the lower right panel we see Kalo, having escaped Iotia and the 23rd century in an illegal time-displacement device, under the watchful eye of IMF Agent Rockford. Rockford had become suspicious of Kalo when the gangster referred to his car as a flivver and tried to inveigle Rockford into playing something called Fizzbin, an obviously phony game.

So there you have it. Don’t argue with me. Argue with the Truth.

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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