Headline: Orca kills SeaWorld trainer
'Started thrashing,' witness says; 2 earlier deaths cited
Story: ORLANDO - A SeaWorld trainer died Wednesday when she slipped or fell into a pool and was fatally injured by an orca, a sheriff's official said. Witnesses, however, said it appeared the orca had actually pulled the trainer into the pool.
The Star Trek connection:
Lisa, did you know this Star Trek movie has whales in it?
Whales? Really? What kind of whales? If theyre killer whales, theyd better not act like Orca.
The Voyage Home turned out to be my perfect gateway drug to Trek. It had whales, it placed the crew in the 1980s, and it had the conservationist message I was just starting to latch on to at the time.