Google celebrates Star Trek's 46th anniversary with an interactive doodle!

Hey, Trekkies: Google has treated us all to a really fun, interactive doodle to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the network premiere of Star Trek! From today until tomorrow -- September 8, the actual air date in 1966 -- you will get to set your cursors to "stun" and maybe mess with a Redshirt (hint: the worried-looking one shaped like an "e") when you visit Google's main page and start clicking your way into a miniature episode featuring characters from the original series. (The hair on the O-Kirk is glorious, I tell you.) StarTrek.com has an interview with the doodle's creator (and Trekkie), Ryan Germick. Live long and prosper, Star Trek!

Celebrating 46 Years with a Google Doodle [StarTrek.com]

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Labor Day got a tiny static flag at the bottom of the home page. The 46th (?) anniversary of Star Trek gets the mega treatment.
- jandrese
  
  http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-s-Labour-Day-Doodle-267187.shtml
  
  Huh?
  - lafave
    
    In order to distract USians from May Day and the events that happened thereupon, the US has its official Labor Day on the first Monday in September, grima was likely noticing the lack of an animation this past Monday.
    - Ito Kagehisa
      
      I’ve noticed that most of my fellow USians give me blank looks if I mention the Haymarket riots. We keep that in the memory hole next to the Wall Street bombing, the burning of the White House, and the Espionage Act.
http://offthemall.org/ Bryant Turnage

Very cute, very addictive distraction.
Petzl

“Momma don’t let your babies grow up to be redshirts ….”
BombBlastLightingWaltz

And the wee masses went wild! Didn’t know I was a geek, have to say that is cool. Love the $$$ on $pock’s ‘right sleeve?’.
Ito Kagehisa

That gorn looked like a PEZ dispenser. I have to say I chuckled when the tribbles came rolling out, though!
- Dave X
  
  How did you find the Tribbles?
  - retchdog
    
    click on the hatch in the upper-left of the transporter room.
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/ Hubert Figuière

Because Google Chrome is the new IE the doodle does not have sound playback in Firefox (no Flash) as they use the Chrome specific API for sound.
- retchdog
  
  works for me. did you try reversing the polarity?
  - http://www.figuiere.net/hub/ Hubert Figuière
    
    But did you disable Flash before claiming it works?
    - retchdog
      
      well that’s your own problem.
      
      seriously, what are you complaining about? you don’t use have this alleged special chrome api, so you need flash. but you don’t use flash, so … what exactly do you expect the world to do for you? i guess they could implement it in html5, but then again you’re probably surfing the web in lynx.
- bcsizemo
  
  Are you running no-script or something?
  I see people say Chrome does so much more than Firefox, but I have yet to have it encounter a page it didn’t render properly.
  - http://www.figuiere.net/hub/ Hubert Figuière
    
    I just don’t have Flash, as I said in the OC. And yes it should work without, they just didn’t make the effort.
    - marilove
      
      Or you could just use another browser … or Flash.
      
      *plays worlds smallest violin*
      
      ETA: It looks like they ddin’t even use Flash. Look at skeptacally’s comment before. Yeeeesh. Dude.
- SamSam
  
  What Chrome-specific API are you referring to, exactly?
  
  There is an HTML5-standard for sound play-back. Not all browsers implement the full API, but it’s still an agreed-upon standard, towards which all browsers should be reaching.
  
  If Firefox hasn’t implemented HTML5 sound, it makes some sense to fall back on Flash.
  
  But I may be wrong — are you aware of a specific Chrome-only feature that this doodle uses?
- skeptacally
  
  No problem here, though my Mac runs on Dilithium Crystals.
- endrest
  
  They don’t use Flash for their doodles. You probably have NoScript installed and need to authenticate googleusercontent.com to hear the audio events.
jerwin

Hmm. Can’t get very far. The red Shirt cries, Uhura is besotted by Kirk’s charm, the transporter works, the Gorn can be hit by various things, but Bones, Spock and Sulu remain off limits. Am I missing something?
- Pedantic Douchebag
  
  If you type alt+F4 while you’re on the turbolift, you end up in Yeoman Rand’s quarters, and she’s just gotten out of the shower, and has had a bit too much Romulan Ale…
Chentzilla

Hey, Trekkies: Google has treated us all to a really fun, interactive doodle to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the network premiere of Star Trek!

Yeah, we boingers would never stumble on it ourselves.

mess with a Redshirt (hint: the worried-looking one shaped like an “e”)

You can also identify him by his red shirt.

(The hair on the O-Kirk is glorious, I tell you.)

It’s in front of our very own eyes, you don’t need to tell us. Actually, the picture says it all. Except for where to find the interview – that’s the only non-superfluous part of this post.

Here’s what would be enough:
Hey, Trekkies: to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the network premiere of Star Trek, Google has treated us all to a really fun interactive doodle, which will be available from today until tomorrow — September 8, the actual air date in 1966.
StarTrek.com has an interview with the doodle’s creator (and Trekkie), Ryan Germick. Live long and prosper, Star Trek!

Not sure about that colon, though…
- retchdog
  
  Yeah, we boingers would never stumble on it ourselves.
  
  i wouldn’t. who actually visits google.com regularly any more?
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    People who don’t know the word ‘toolbar’?
    - Chentzilla
      
      You get your google results in the toolbar, too?
      - retchdog
        
        looks like we’ve got a live one here.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        The Google results page has a tiny, little, barely visible doodle in the corner with nothing to indicate that it might be interactive unless I accidentally click on it.
- Ramone
  
  Wake up on the wrong side of the transporter did we? Yikes.
  
  FYI, not all Google doodles are seen in all countries, so not everyone who reads Boing Boing would have seen it immediately. They’d have to find the US version of Google:
  
  http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2012/All%20doodles
  - Brainspore
    
    Wake up on the wrong side of the transporter did we?
    
    On the other hand, Mirror-Universe Chentzilla is actually quite chipper.
    - Donald Petersen
      
      Still goateed, however.
- http://www.madziabryll.com Cefeida
  
  Good man! Someone had to warn BB that they were getting close to using up their daily allotment of words and emotions!
- Pedantic Douchebag
  
  Wow, you’re kind of a pedantic douchebag.
- marilove
  
  I bet you’re a blast at parties. And by a blast I mean utterly obnoxious.
  - Chentzilla
    
    And I bet you are a female comedian. And by female comedian I mean one like Jamie Frevele.
    
    Just look like Lisa did it years ago: http://boingboing.net/2010/05/21/play-pacman-on-the-g.html
    
    Now that I read it… I miss her.
Brainspore

You can’t spell “LGBTQ” without George Takei.
- bcsizemo
  
  That’s so Takei.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=847810626 Jesse Nikolic
    
    It’s okay to be Takei.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

My recent brush with Star Trek
https://twitter.com/digitalArtform/status/236631577185107968
http://www.coolgizmotoys.com/ Jack Kieffer

One of my favorite Google Doodles by far!