Talk:47 (number)

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1 Sources
2 Sev Trek/42 reference
3 47 and Lost
4 47 - Numerology

[edit] Sources

Moved from article, until we have a reference for it.

Following on from this inside joke, one of the story writers of the Star Trek TV programme who graduated from Pomona College (Rick Berman? Brannon Braga? I don't know) "infected" other Star Trek writers with it, and as a result the number occurs in a subtle hidden way in every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

DJ Clayworth 15:51, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sources include:

and thanks for getting me to collect these because the latter also clarifies that the writer in question is Joe Menosky. Moving the text back into the article. -- Timwi 03:30, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Good work. DJ Clayworth 18:50, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Man, it's kinda awful that this article has more information about Pomona College than the Pomona College article. -- 165.247.109.238 09:47, 8 Jul 2005 (UTC)

To Timwi: Thanks for catching the errant video game citation -- nice job... Coll7 07:50, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

On that same note, I wonder whether each of the 47s spotted on The Simpsons, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Alias and Lost (and I add Scrubs to the list) are deliberate on the part of the writers or simply coincidences. ShutterBugTrekker 16:58, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sev Trek/42 reference

I remember there was a Sev Trek comic that explained that 47 was The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything with inflation involved.. Does anyone remember this comic, since I feel that it would rather be a big contribution to the Star Trek side of 47?

It took place on the Voyager with Paris asking Janeway a question.. DrWho42 21:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

*pokes you* Look in the article. It's right there, next to the Berman quote. Also, it was Tuvok, not Paris. I got a bit of flack for saying what I did, though, because Sevilians didn't want to imply that the joke came from Berman. I worded it the way I did to try to make clear that it was the same explanation being referenced, i.e. 42 plus inflation, not Berman's joke being referenced. If there's another way to word it so it's clearer that it's the explanation and not Berman, I'm all for it. Admiral Memo 20:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, thanks, it's been awhile since I've read the comic since they've archived it away. DrWho42 02:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

It's in there, but it's not accessible to anyone on a text-based browser. Shouldn't someone write a longer more explanitory caption for it? I don't have the time myself at the moment.

TRiG 20:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 47 and Lost

I don't think that the connection stated between Lost's number series and 47 really should be included here, I imagine if you look hard enough you can make 47 out of an awful lot of series of numbers. Why not mention things like there being an initial count of 47 survivors instead?

I think the number of survivors used to be on the page. As for the numerology, many people get 47s out of Star Trek by computing number series. Admiral Memo 23:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
There were initially 48 survivors, but I assume that includes Ethan. I can't come up with any other example of 47 in Lost. -TheContralto 20:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)