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I'm sure that I am not the first person to pick up on this, but I have noticed names of Orbital songs that relate specifically to Star Trek the Next Generation. Such as "Nothing Left [Shizoid Man Remix]" Schizoid Man is the name of an episode. "Macro Head" on the green album is a quote from the character Q. The Alchemy "Phasers on Stun Mix" is also an obvious indication. There are other indications besides song titles, but I cannot discuss them here.

It would seem to be a reasonable theory that Orbital likes/liked Star Trek.

Worf:
There is the Theory of the Moebius,
a twist in the fabric of space,
where time becomes a loop,
from which there is no escape.

Geordi:
When we reach that point,
whatever happened will happen again.

please don't make me mentally connect orbital too much to star trek


i think you would be allowed to discuss them here, if you're talking about samples and stuff, it's just that they couldn't be officially confirmed by anybody, 'cos that might incriminate orbital, but if it's just you posting wild speculation then no harm done...

2 Dave. If you read what it says in the forum section then its quite clear where we stand on samples

"This forum can also be used to discuss Orbital lyrics and samples. The website will never disclose or confirm samples for legal reasons"

Schizoid Man is an alternative artist name for Schematix and Schematix is Phil Holmberg. So its not Orbital that decided on that mix name but i'm sure Mr Holmberg is probably a trekkie as well

You're sure he's probably a trekkie? Definitely maybe, I'll say.

But come on, who ISN'T a trekkie?
(Me!)

I'm not

I know Phil likes his old sci-fi so maybe he just prefers the old star trek stuff.

Orbital aren't the only band to sample 'Star Trek'... Information Society did it on 'Whats On Your Mind (Pure Energy)'.

Come to think of it, Orbital collaborated on 'Way Out' with Brother Sun/Sister Moon aka Hummingbirds and one half of Hummingbirds is Paul Robb who used to be in Information Society.

It's a conspiracy

Another fascinating Star Trek sample for you all: There's a noise in that first tune on the Brown album that's from the original series episode with Kahn in it. It's the noise that some laser button makes when Kirk presses it. At least, I think it's the episode with Kahn in it. I've only watched about three of them, so it's probably that one.

Stop press: Orbital in nerd shocker!

Planet of the shapes?

Theres a noise in that that sounds like a Tie Fighter, it sort of goes vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.

memly wrote:Planet of the shapes?

Theres a noise in that that sounds like a Tie Fighter, it sort of goes vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom.

Tie Fighter!
that's star wars!
don't you know anything...

Funky Dung wrote:Stop press: Orbital in nerd shocker!

Orbital... and nerds?

Surely, you must be mistaken!

(Oh wait, we're all on the internet right now, aren't we?)

stargurl wrote:

Funky Dung wrote:Stop press: Orbital in nerd shocker!

Orbital... and nerds?

Surely, you must be mistaken!

(Oh wait, we're all on the internet right now, aren't we?)

we're all on the whatnow? i'm still trying to figure out why all these cryptic messages keep appearing on my typewriter

The Leonard Nimoy sample from The Information Society tune was only cleared by him for use when his son Adam told him he was a friend of the band....

shadyboy wrote:The Leonard Nimoy sample from The Information Society tune was only cleared by him for use when his son Adam told him he was a friend of the band....

Yeah, freaked me out when I heard about that...

i know its only speculative but don't you think we shouldn't speculate too much as to the source of probably uncleared samples?