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I thought was worth resurrecting. It first came to light this time last year as part of a longer post that linked Star Trek to horoscopes, but for your comfort and convenience I’ve posted this, the abridged version.. It refers to the imminent launch of ‘Star Trek-Into Darkness’ which of course has now been out on BluRay and DVD for the best part of a year, but the principles are still valid
With the release in May of this latest slab of the Star Trek franchise, it’s perhaps time for me to confess. I’ve never been a Trekkie (or is it Trekker? I can never figure it out), I don’t speak Klingon, and I didn’t enjoy any of the television shows after The Original Series from 1966. I loved that. For my mum and me it was absolutely required viewing. I’d finish my homework, she’d finish marking her pupils’ books, and we’d settle down with a cup of tea and a load of biscuits.
More confessions. I haven’t seen any of the films apart from the latest one that JJ Abrams made such a great job of in 2009. He’s got his work cut out if STID is to make its mark against that. Especially as the acronym sonds like something you need to go to a special clinic to have treated. Got to be a handicap, surely?
No matter. We can still expect some things to happen as they have been happening for the past near 50 years. Indeed some cropped up in the 2009 film as a self-parody. I’m not being snidey here. I hold Star Trek in genuine affection and with high regard.
One thing that needs to be addressed by Starfleet Command is that their Starships are very pretty but uselessly small against the bad guys. The mining ship that came out of the black hole in 2009 was about the size of one of the moons of Jupiter, and covered in projections and pylons and god knows what. The Enterprise looked liked a rubber duck taking on the Nimitz. Really, build them bigger, guys.
What else can we expect? All the standards, that’s what.
Warp factor 6 Mr Sulu
What is warp factor 6? Intergalactic cruise control? How fast is it? Why not go everywhere as fast as they can?
Patch us in to their communicationss, Uhuru.
Amazing how she does this. An almost infinite number of frequencies to scan (not including the deep space frequencies, which remain a mystery to me to this day), and she hits pay dirt first time every time. I was trying to tune a transistor radio to Classic FM the other day, and all I got was a lot of whistling and whooshing. Maybe there’s some guy outside the Enterprise with the sole job of twiddling the rabbit ear aerial.
The engines won’t take it, Cap’n
Classic Scotty line; happened nearly every episode. Why not? What’s Enterprise got under the bonnet? Who was cutting corners at procurement in the engine department at Starfleet Command? I’d be having very strong words indeed back at base if I were Jim Kirk and the outboard motor had packed up. Again.
All available power to front deflector shields
No point in doing this, Jim, it is illogical. When did it ever make a scrap of difference? The asteroid storm/bits of other Starships/comet tail will still rip bloody great chunks of outer hull off. Use all available power to keep the lights burning on the bridge. Better use of resources.
Having escaped destruction, the Enterprise is now in orbit around a strange planet with two suns, about 15 moons, and a double ring system.
I detect no life force readings, Captain
Don’t listen Jim! Somehwere down there there’s a silicon-based lifeform that looks like a styrofoam rock shuffling around on rubber tentacles, and it’s going to get pissed off when you walk across the wet concrete that is, in fact, its children.
The atmosphere is breathable, Captain
Apart from the hallucinogenic spores.
Beam us down/Energise
If you’re a crew member on the landing party you’re going to start wishing for RPGs and thermite bombs, because you just know a phaser isn’t up to whatever job you’ll be facing.
Phasers to stun
Not me. I’d have mine set to full power, and at the first slight rustle in the bushes I’d be blasting away yelling, ‘Eat lead, mutha******s!
Last thing. Jim seems to have a tendency to fall for the wrong sort of woman. Spock gives him a lecture on the dangers and pitfalls of miscegenation. That’s pretty rich, isn’t it?
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Things to look forward to next week. If all goes to plan, you can expect:
The best practical joke in the world. Ever! This should appear on Monday. I guarantee it’s never been done, and is a whole lot funnier than clingfilming a naked bridegroom to a lamp post. It’ll take a while to set up, but Monday gives you three weeks until All Fool’s Day on April 1st
More interesting facts about water
Homeopathy. Oh am I looking forward to that. You may not be. I am.
nobodysreadingme 
Ye cannae change the laws o’ physics
I forgot that one, Jim. Damn
It’s worse than that, he’s dead Jim
I nearly had a heart attack at that one Al. Thanks a lot for the near death experience
HAHA 😀
Arf!
When conventions were starting to get crazy, Trekkies is what newsstations and non-fans dubbed the fans (usually as a veiled insult), so the fans started calling themselves Trekkers to distinguish. Over time, the difference has been muted, if not entirely all squished together.
Now, some people say Trekkers are the true fans because they’re the original group. Others say Trekkies are the true fans because they were never afraid of what other people said. Moreover, people say that since Trekkies never cared that they were cast as loonies, they’re often just fans of the original (like you) and are lovers of and loyal to the original crew. Whereas Trekkers took the trek, so to speak, with the series and enjoyed them all, but with less vivacity.
But, really, it’s just preference.
I say Trekker, myself. 🙂
Errrrmmmm. I’d love to say that enlightened me, but I can’t.
I do however seem to recollect you are a self proclaimed nerd…
😀
One of the clever things about the original series is that Roddenbery set it far enough in the future that space travel was established fact so they didn’t have to muck about with explanations (like why go warp factor 6 instead of 9 all the time.
And that Romulan ship was from 400 years in an alternate future, so…
*removes trekkie hat*
Build them bigger. Build them bigger. So yes, in 400 years the Romulans have something to deal with, not a scale model.
No models anymore. CGI.
Meh.
Yeah, but you get the principle. Build the damned things bigger