My accounting textbook: Written by trekkies

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-09-04 10:58pm

A few problems:

Catherine Janeway Company's weekly payroll, paid on Fridays, totals $6,000. Journalize.

Beverly Crusher is a licensed CPA. Journalize her office transactions.

(one of the transactions):

Received cash of $2,300 for services completed for Ferengi Co.

Presented below are selected ledger accounts of Spock Corporation.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-09-04 11:06pm

Crusher's a hooker? I could never have guessed, services completed indeed.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-09-04 11:38pm

thats fucking great! at least this proves that trekkies are of some value to society.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-09-04 11:39pm

zombie84 wrote:thats fucking great! at least this proves that trekkies are of some value to society.

Just a bit better than Warsies.

(I'm a trekkie, if you couldn't guess)

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-04 11:54pm

Truthfully, stuff like this gets kind of annoying after a while in textbooks.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-09-05 12:38am

Please scan the said pages.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-05 12:45am

One of my physics books had a problem about characters from Ender's Game.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-09-05 01:14am

References to something relatively obscure like Ender's Game is cool, but that thing with Trek.. gah

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-09-05 01:18am

My calculus book in high school had a few Star Wars problems.

greenmm · Post by **greenmm** » 2003-09-05 09:30am

They did it all the time in my accounting textbooks, too. Not just Star Trek, but other famous names as well.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-09-05 04:19pm

I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-09-05 04:23pm

Jadeite wrote:I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second

*blinks*
Apart from the stupidity of translating speed into acceleration, what is this doing in a chemistry guide???

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-09-05 05:13pm

Jadeite wrote:I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second

It can't be done, the warp scale constantly changes from episode to episode.....

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-09-05 05:30pm

My Geometry book has a whole section devoted to measuring Star Trek ships on a 3-dimensional graph-thingy...

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-06 02:51am

Durran Korr wrote:A few problems:

Catherine Janeway Company's weekly payroll, paid on Fridays, totals $6,000. Journalize.

Janeway?? Is that actually a real-life surname?? If it is, it surely ranks up there with "Lovecraft" and "Hitchcock" in the Hall Of Weird Surnames.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-09-06 02:57am

It's not annoying unless it's overly prevalent. If, say, 10% of the questions in the text involved Trek characters, it would be pretty obvious that the author has problems.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-06 03:27am

Kamakazie Sith wrote:
Jadeite wrote:I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second
It can't be done, the warp scale constantly changes from episode to episode.....

Somehow, I don't think that was the right answer.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-09-06 03:39am

What was the right answer? I too am curious how you can translate speed into acceleration.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-09-06 09:38am

I got to convert lightspeed into inches per second yesterday. That's a big number.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-09-06 09:58am

I used to put Trek/Wars references in my school assignments, I once wrote a story about some country where the capital was named Coruscant and it was run by President Palpatine. It also had an Admiral named Motti.

Never seen it in a textbook though.

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