boldly citing fiction that many have cited before

[twoeleven]

there's a new paper about treefrogs that have oddly electronic-sounding calls. or at least, that's the authors' hook. i'd say just a couple of them sound like new trek sound effects, but i will admit that boldly citing star trek has made the paper a bigger splash than not. as they say,

[W]e primarily aim to honor the focus on inspiring – even if not always accurate – science and nature conservation prevalent in numerous Star Trek episodes [...], and the spirit of discovery and scientific exploration that it fosters. It seems also fitting that finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls[, seeking] out new frogs in new forests; [and] boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before[!]

i'm gonna skip the formal nomenclature, and just say that kirk's treefrog and picard's treefrog have what it takes to be good ST:NG SF/X. kirk's treefrog could be a tricorder indicating the presence of a plot element, and picard's treefrog sounds like a communicator's incoming call sound followed by a double-beep confirming call pick-up. the rest just sound like birds chirping to me. (.wav files; all of the sound samples, including those two, are with the supplemental data.)