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Utopia Planitia, Titan
    and the Kuiper Belt

Janet Kuypers
3/16/15

I’m such an astronomy geek
that when Pluto was demoted from planetary status,
Janet Kuypers here was pleased
that Pluto was an icy ball
from the Kuiper Belt...
But I’m getting a little bent out of orbit
whenever I hear astronomical info
and find that Star Trek mentioned it first.

Got a globe of Mars,
and when I squinted and read
the name of the northern ice cap,
Utopia Planitia,
I remembered how the Enterprise-D
was built on Utopia Planitia...

Or after hearing how astronomers
like to study Saturn’s moon Titan
(because it has all of the elements
of Earth when it first became a planet),
that’s when I hear on a Star Trek rerun
how ensign Wesley Crusher for training
did a Yeager loop around Titan.

We’re trying to figure out
how to fly anyone on a one-way trip to Mars,
and two Enterprise ships were built there.
We’re trying to learn
about Earth’s history from Titan,
and a young pilot is doing tricks
around that moon,
just to be a show off.
Well,
we might not have
warp drive on our side,
but if our scientists
take their cues from science fiction,
then we’re catching up to Star Trek,
and any character from that show
won’t match our knowledge of the final frontier.


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