…may not be unseen.
Blame Ed Driscoll.
…may not be unseen.
Blame Ed Driscoll.
The weird guy in this:
The aliens in Galaxy Quest.
Moe Lane
PS: I’m sure that there’s a perfectly irrational reason to explain the original clip of the Mad Yodeler, but I’m not sure that I’d actually want to know it.
No, I didn’t pre-order Star Trek, then pay the extra money to have them ship it to me right away. That’s wasteful. No, what I did was pre-order it, tell them to send it Super-Saver Shipping… then do the redbox buck rental so that I could watch it right away. That saved me three, four bucks easy.
Much more efficient that way, right?
Moe Lane
What’s that? “Wait until it shows up?” Hahaha! Good one. Creepy, but good one.
As one of my colleagues (who should get a personal site, so that I may not be able to steal stuff like this) notes, the nice thing about the Internet is that you can have a new Greatest. Thing. EVAR. every day.
If there is a way to make this combination more synergistically awesome, it is not readily apparent to modern science.
Moe Lane
Via Glenn Reynolds.
Moe Lane
PS: Dammit, in an alternate universe not that far diverged from this one I’d be able to make all sorts of Star Trek-themed Christopher Marlowe puns. Would it have killed the writers to reference somebody besides Shakespeare, every so often?
No, not from me: but somebody will look at this and think of you.
Star Trek Fragrance Tiberius Boldly Go Cologne
(Via Galley Slaves, via @BrianFaughnan.)
Don’t try to deny it. And extra points for the logo.
Moe Lane
For a given value of ‘little.’ A taste:
V’Ger
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a Voyager space probe gets sucked into a black hole and survives (GAAAAH), and is discovered by denizens of a machine planet who think the logical thing to do is to take a bus-size machine with the processing power of a couple of Speak and Spells and upgrade it to a spaceship the size of small moon, wrap that in an energy field the size of a solar system, and then send it merrily on its way. This is like you assisting a brain-damaged raccoon trapped on a suburban traffic island by giving him Ecuador.
(Via Fark Geek) They get better. No discussion of modified tachyon bursts, but the Star Trek holodeck gets its nod.
I wonder if it’ll hit the same ones that I would have; particularly, how every major problem in the Star Trek universe can be solved by a modified tachyon burst emitted through the main deflector grid.
Anyway, via Instapundit comes “John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design.” I like this one the best, because it’s one that I didn’t think of ahead of time, but was bloody obvious once it was pointed out to me:
Lightsabers
Yes, I know, I want one too. But I tell you what: I want one with a hand guard. Otherwise every lightsaber battle would consist of sabers clashing and then their owners sliding as quickly as possible down the shaft to lop off their opponent’s fingers. You say: Lightsabers can slice through anything but another lightsaber, so what are you going to make a hand guard out of? I say: Dude, if you have the technology to make a lightsaber, you have the technology to make a light hand guard.
Well, that’s why he’s John Scalzi, and I’m not.
Moe Lane
It being Wednesday, we say good-bye – until November17th – to Star Trek, and say hello to 12 Monkeys
, which is otherwise known as A Time Travel Movie That Didn’t Suck.
Well, many of them do.
Moe Lane