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.

    • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      407·
      3 days ago

      Jipped is gyped. As in ripped off by gypsies. It’s not a nice thing to say. Many people don’t know about the racist origin of the term. If you hate me for saying this I can tell you the nastiest joke I know involving a gypsy. They prefer to be called Roma though.

              • Teal@lemm.ee
                4·
                1 day ago

                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

                Snopes fact check

                Edited typo: Snipes to Snopes.

                • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  21·
                  1 day ago

                  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.

                  • Teal@lemm.ee
                    2·
                    1 day ago

                    We may both have truth to our posts. I’m no expert in, well anything, so I can’t comment further on the possibility of buck being a negative word for some. Your post is the first I’ve heard pointing it towards slaves. That doesn’t make it untrue.

                    One thing that’s clear is the history taught has been shown to be not so accurate at times. Crediting the wrong person for inventions, one sided views on topics, etc.

                    Thanks for the note about Snopes. It’s a shame things like that happen.