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.
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.