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This may have been mentioned thousands of times before, but I was watching Star Trek II with Khan. (the best IMO), And during the scene in Kirk's house, there is a very distinctly shaped PET computer with the screen sitting waiting for a command. It's visible in the blu-ray ed of the movie quite clearly. Never noticed it, and I've watched this movie dozens of times. Anyone else confirm?

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... I was watching Star Trek II with Khan. (the best IMO), And during the scene in Kirk's house, there is a very distinctly shaped PET computer... Never noticed it, and I've watched this movie dozens of times. Anyone else confirm?

Yep. I confirm. The PET makes an appearance in a number of places, even the second season of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", when Buck is in the sickbay with a fever - he uses a PET (with a cheezy 1980s video overlay) to watch events unfold in the docking bay. There's also a 12" PET in "Terminator 3" in a pile of old computers at the end of the movie.

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This may have been mentioned thousands of times before, but I was watching Star Trek II with Khan. (the best IMO), And during the scene in Kirk's house, there is a very distinctly shaped PET computer with the screen sitting waiting for a command. It's visible in the blu-ray ed of the movie quite clearly. Never noticed it, and I've watched this movie dozens of times. Anyone else confirm?

 

Many Commodore PETs in Battlestar Galatica (the original), with the Commodore logo taped over.

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This may have been mentioned thousands of times before, but I was watching Star Trek II with Khan. (the best IMO), And during the scene in Kirk's house, there is a very distinctly shaped PET computer with the screen sitting waiting for a command. It's visible in the blu-ray ed of the movie quite clearly. Never noticed it, and I've watched this movie dozens of times. Anyone else confirm?

 

I thought that was a great addition to that scene. Kirk clearly liked antiques... but that he was also a vintage computer collector makes him all the cooler.

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This may have been mentioned thousands of times before, but I was watching Star Trek II with Khan. (the best IMO), And during the scene in Kirk's house, there is a very distinctly shaped PET computer with the screen sitting waiting for a command. It's visible in the blu-ray ed of the movie quite clearly. Never noticed it, and I've watched this movie dozens of times. Anyone else confirm?

 

I thought that was a great addition to that scene. Kirk clearly liked antiques... but that he was also a vintage computer collector makes him all the cooler.

 

Everybody knows Kirk is a Commodore fanboy.

 

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... I was watching Star Trek II with Khan. (the best IMO), And during the scene in Kirk's house, there is a very distinctly shaped PET computer... Never noticed it, and I've watched this movie dozens of times. Anyone else confirm?

Yep. I confirm. The PET makes an appearance in a number of places, even the second season of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", when Buck is in the sickbay with a fever - he uses a PET (with a cheezy 1980s video overlay) to watch events unfold in the docking bay. There's also a 12" PET in "Terminator 3" in a pile of old computers at the end of the movie.

 

Which is ironic since Gil Gerard was a known Atari 800 user.

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