▲ 136 ▼ greebles!! (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 months ago by MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca to c/startrek@startrek.website 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51413674
[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago (2 children) Term coined by someone working on an obscure Star Trek knockoff in the 1970s. A little more warlike, as I recall, not really worth watching of course. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago Wow, they came up with this for Battlestar Galactica?! Cool! 😂 permalink fedilink source parent [–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child) TBF, though Lucas allegedly coined (more accurately attributed to "model makers at ILM" instead of that assclown), various different projects' teams used terms like "wiggets" (2001:SO; <1968) and "nurnies" (B5; <1993) over the years, and the "greeble" version became popular only recently, in fact. edit: my bad, didn't clock the "source" of OP's "fact" until just now permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago You know your stuff! Gotta say, of those terms “greebles” really does sound best to my ear. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago Wow, they came up with this for Battlestar Galactica?! Cool! 😂 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child) TBF, though Lucas allegedly coined (more accurately attributed to "model makers at ILM" instead of that assclown), various different projects' teams used terms like "wiggets" (2001:SO; <1968) and "nurnies" (B5; <1993) over the years, and the "greeble" version became popular only recently, in fact. edit: my bad, didn't clock the "source" of OP's "fact" until just now permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago You know your stuff! Gotta say, of those terms “greebles” really does sound best to my ear. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago You know your stuff! Gotta say, of those terms “greebles” really does sound best to my ear. permalink fedilink source parent
