3179: Superfeline Feats, Up To Eleven... Billion?

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Superfeline Feats, Up To Eleven... Billion?

Made by: Nyperold

Explanation

In the original, the hurled object was a television set. Here, it's a Dyson sphere.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe, a Dyson sphere is an engineering marvel: an enormous man-made planet wrapped around its sun-analogue. The Enterprise-D encounters one in the episode "Relics", thus the joke in the disclaimer about relics and artifacts, the latter of which is both a synonym for "relics" and a thing which can happen when image compression algorithms handle information in a way that's noticeable to the human eye as being "wrong".

The title is a reference to the trope "Up to Eleven", itself a reference to "This is Spinal Tap", wherein the band has speakers that have volume knobs which go up that high instead of just to the standard ten.

The author writes:

Original strip: 1984-02-06.

Dyson sphere image found on Memory Alpha (and saved as a PNG before applying to the strip to reduce the chance of reli-- I mean, artifacts) and used only as a vehicle for parody.

Transcript

Jon: Hey, Garfield, it says here that people can perform superhuman feats of strength during periods of great stress.
Jon: What baloney!
Jon: By the way, I'm taking you to the vet today.
{Garfield hurls a Dyson sphere (possibly a model) at Jon's head from out of panel}