Iran Launches Satalite

[Captain Seafort]

It makes much more sense that the UFP is the descendant of the USSR (remember all Chekov's references to "Leningrad").

[thelordharry]

At least that's what our old mate Pavel would like to have you believe

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Crediting things to Mother Russia:

A running joke involves Chekov's tendency to credit things to "Mother Russia".

They include:
"The Russian Epic of Cinderella" (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
Scotch being invented by "a little old lady from Leningrad" ("The Trouble With Tribbles")
The Garden of Eden being "just outside" Moscow. ("The Apple")
The grain quadrotriticale being a Russian "inwention" ("The Trouble With Tribbles")
Various star systems being charted by Russians ("The Trouble With Tribbles")
The old saying quoted by Scotty: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!" ("Friday's Child")
Alexander the Great (Starfleet Academy Chekov's missions module)
Homework being a Russian "Inwention" (the novel "Doctor's Orders")
The claim that the story of the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a Russian story about a disappearing cat from Minsk ("Who Mourns for Adonais?")
Kirk alludes to Sulu that Chekov, if he'd come along, would have mentioned the 1908 Tunguska incident, when they surmised the Enterprise' destruction in "That Which Survives".

[Captain Seafort]

The claim that the story of the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a Russian story about a disappearing cat from Minsk ("Who Mourns for Adonais?")

On that occassion Kirk wasn't much better. American indeed.