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= March 25 =

Carpenter Street (ST: ENT)
Is the episode title Carpenter Street (Star Trek: Enterprise) explained anywhere in the episode? I haven't seen the episode and the article doesn't say anything about it. I'm wondering if it might be a reference to Rodion Raskolnikov. Carpenter Street ("S. Pereulok") is the street in St. Petersburg that Raskolnikov lived on, iirc. I half remember this bit of trivia from, iirc, Le Ton beau de Marot. 2601:648:8202:96B0:386A:A40C:EBB1:ACC0 (talk) 08:49, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The article mentions part of the plot taking place on Carpenter Street in Detroit. There is an actual Carpenter Avenue in Detroit. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:40, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 19:30, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I haven't seen the episode recently enough to remember this detail, but the episode description at Memory Alpha specifically mentions that the story centers around an abandoned factory that's on Carpenter St.; it also says that the episode contains multiple references to John Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween, including names of characters from the movie as well as Carpenter's own name. --69.159.8.46 (talk) 19:42, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Also note that "S. Pereulok" simply means "S. Street" (i.e. a street whose name begins with the letter S). Xuxl (talk) 17:08, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * More specifically, it refers to a lane, alley or side street. --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  22:20, 26 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Do I remember right that Hofstadter said "S. Pereulok" and "K. Most" represent real places (with the same initials) that would be recognized by anyone familiar with S.Pet. of the time? —Tamfang (talk) 00:49, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know about Hofstadter's book but Russian Wikipedia says there are multiple candidates for S Lane and K Bridge, but one seems a lot more likely to me than others when looking on the map. It seems that Dostoyevsky helped the matter by explicitly naming a nearby square. 89.172.8.37 (talk) 09:10, 29 March 2020 (UTC)