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Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 July 1810 - 7 April 1891) was a human circus entrepreneur from the 19th century on Earth. (ST website: StarTrek.com)
Biography[]
He created "The Greatest Show on Earth". (ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia)
P.T. Barnum was known for his skills as a promoter. In 2289, Journalist Jackson McLain noted that his spirit lived on, in some of the more successful independent freighter COs of the 23rd century, in McLain's article "The Corporate Merchant" in Spacelanes magazine. (FASA RPG module: Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade)
He was known into the 24th century for a quote: "There's a sucker born every minute." When dealing with the con artist Ardra on Ventax II in 2367, Federation Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard quoted the line, and Data recognized its source. (ST website: StarTrek.com, TNG episode: "Devil's Due")
Con artists embodied Barnum's famous quote. (Last Unicorn RPG module: Raiders, Renegades & Rogues)
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References[]
- FASA RPG module: Spacelanes: The Magazine of Interstellar Trade
- TNG episode: "Devil's Due"
- ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- Fact Files Issue 20: "File 82, Card 3: A-Z Database Access Point: Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor)"
- Last Unicorn RPG module: Raiders, Renegades & Rogues
- ST website: StarTrek.com
External links[]
- P.T. Barnum article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- P. T. Barnum article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.