Lots of Shakespeare references have appeared in episodes
of the various
Star Trek television
series and films (one of the films is even named after a phrase from
Hamlet), so it came as no surprise to
find a Shakespeare reference in Diane Carey’s novel,
Star Trek: Battlestations! Carey writes: “He puzzled for a moment,
then held up a finger. ‘Oh. You mean like if you fire an infinite number of
shots at an infinite number of monkeys…’ ‘You’ll eventually kill Shakespeare’”
(p. 60). That is a joke on the theory that if a monkey randomly pressed keys on
a typewriter for infinity it would eventually produce
Hamlet.
Star Trek:
Battlestations! was published in 1986.
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