Wednesday, January 21, 2009

My favorite all-time correction

This comes from the Newark Star-Ledger, courtesy of Regret the Error, a famous news-correction site:

Star Trek fans: No more calls or e-mails, please! Captain Kirk did not
often "cloak" the Starship Enterprise to make it invisible, as was erroneously
reported in the "Biz Buzz" feature in yesterday’s Business section. In fact, the
first known use of cloaking technology was by the Romulans in 2266, according to
"The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future." Kirk and
Commander Spock were sent on a mission to steal a cloaking device from the
Romulans in 2268 during the first Star Trek series. And Klingons used cloaking
in the movie "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock." This prompted theories of a
Romulan-Klingon alliance, in which the Romulans may have traded their cloaking
secrets for warp drive, reports An-swers.com. The Star-Ledger really, really regrets the error.

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