I'll post again once I've regained some equilibrium.
UPDATE: Ah, a Youtube video that brings me (sort of) back to the real world.
posted by Dan on 01.31.07 at 11:59 PM
Comments:
So I take it you are a Picard man?
The Simpsons have this to remind you of:
Marge: [hearing modem noises] Ooh, what's wrong with this phone? it's
making crazy noises.
Nerd 2: [contemptuously] Those "crazy noises" are computer signals.
Nerd 3: Yeah. Some guys at MIT are sending us reasons why Captain
Picard is better than Captain Kirk.
Nerd 1: Hah! They're outta their minds.
-- The Great Debate continues, "Homer Goes to College"
I definitely preferred Picard -- I got the impression that I might actually have SURVIVED a tour of duty under Picard. Under Kirk, no way; he went through crewmen like they were Kleenex.
Really, consider the original Enterprise dispassionately. The Captain was a neurotic sex maniac (thank God HE didn't have a Holodeck); the ship's doctor was a paranoid racist; the chief engineer was constantly yelling that the ship was going to blow up in 10 minutes -- it was kind of an interstellar Exxon Valdez.
posted by: Bruce Moomaw on 01.31.07 at 11:59 PM [permalink]
There's also the Finnish Star Trek / Babylon 5 parody movie Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning - you can download it (with or without English subtitles) here. YouTube has the trailer.
