Honorable Mentions:
- Inertial dampeners fail in both
- DM calls it “FTL drive” but it’s warp drive in all but name
- Subspace communications
- Both have mirror universes
- Discovery’s experimental spore drive is Dark Matter’s experimental “Blink” drive in all but name
Edit: Had one I meant to include but forgot: Killer Barrels
Bonus: Has Detmer and Sam Kirk too.
Is that one too?!
Yep. Buck wild. Buck naked. Slaveowners called young strong black men bucks. I’m just mad nobody wanted to hear the nasty gypsy joke.
I think you’re reaching on that one. Buck is a term used for a male animal. For example, calling a kid “young buck” isn’t to do with anything racial or to do with slaves. It simply means young man.
Buck naked is just saying your as naked as a wild animal. Buck wild is to say someone is acting free and crazy like a wild animal, similar to “wilding out”.
Buck definition
Snipes fact check
I’m willing to grant that it’s possible these slang terms were more animal related than slave related. I do have to point out that your snopes link, although it mentions a false etymology related to slavery, is about the term bucks to mean dollars. Which of course comes from deer hides. I think buck referring to money and buck referring to young slave men are different etymologies.
What I wrote was how I heard it, and I don’t remember when or where. Like I said, it’s possible I’m wrong, but I do not concede that you have refuted my argument.
Heads up, snopes had kind of a hostile takeover situation. They were being transparent about their funding and expenditures until the past four years. I have no doubt what you linked is correct, but snopes is no longer the final word on the internet that it once was.