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And if this idea amuses you, you should find a copy of Treks Not Taken, a collection of short stories that imagines what would happen if famous writers (Stephen King, Anne Rice, Tom Clancy, and yes – JD Salinger) had written Star Trek stories. You can see "The Crusher in the Rye" written in the style of JD Salinger (Or "A Clockwork Data", "One Beamed Into The Cuckoo's Nest", "The Vampire Le Forge", "Jurassic Trek", "Fandom Shrugged", etc.) I got a copy years ago, and it's probably time I dug it out for a re-read.

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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or linked to from here before, but it's «SuvwI'pu' qan tu'lu'be'» (Without Me) by Klenginem (a rapper who performs Eminem in the original Klingon). If you'd like to gank this for your own journal, community, or elsewhere (note that this will not work in LJ comments, only in the original post); below is the necessary code for copying and pasting:

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[	Present Coordinates	|	75089	]
[	Counselor Troi's assessment	|	annoyed	]
[	Astral Symphonic selection	|	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Shattered Mirror	]

• Time travel
  
• Holodeck malfunction
  
• Anything with the Star Trek kids -- Wesley, Alexander, Jake, Nog, Naomi, etc...
  
• Mirror universe

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IMDb — Veteran actor Christopher Plummer is livid an injury he suffered during from a one-night stand meant that William Shatner played his part in Henry V – because it made the Star Trek actor a star. Plummer was lined up to perform in the Shakespeare play in 1956 – but an unplanned romp left him unable to take to the stage, according to New York gossip column PageSix. He says in his autobiography In Spite Of Myself: "I woke up alone the next morning… (pain) all around my groin and lower abdomen… I started to whimper like a whipped dog. 'So this is what syphilis is like?' I thought. 'I suppose I deserve it, but Christ, how the hell was I to know?'" But instead of being struck down by the disease, Plummer had dislodged a kidney stone and had to undergo a medical procedure with a surgical wire to resolve the problem. "It began to sink in… Shatner, my understudy, would have to go on... (It) instantly brought back the pain. I screamed for a nurse who jabbed me with more morphine. I knew then that the SOB was going to be a star."

Sounds like sour grapes, although I can see how some people would like describing The Shat's entire acting career as a sexually transmitted disease. In any event, if you're not sure who Christopher Plummer is, think Captain Von Trapp from The Sound of Music. Plummer did work with Shatner again decades later, making his own appearance in the Star Trek universe and still spouting Shakespeare:

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The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn 

 

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(Ganked from rodriguezmiguel.)