FTA: The early Spock's only real vice was sardonic ire (often directed at McCoy). But this was also one of his most appealing qualities -- because Spock, as Jenkins gleefully asserts, is "someone who can bitch slap you with his brain." It's an ability shared by Obama -- who, unlike Spock, doesn't employ that superpower recreationally. His brilliance isn't a defense (or defended by sarcasm). While Obama embodies Spock's passion for reason, he adds the element of warmth.

"Bitch slap you with his brain"?

LOL!

Blog long and prosper.

Be Well.

Obama is Spock

Obama is Uhura.

FTA: The early Spock's only real vice was sardonic ire (often directed at McCoy). But this was also one of his most appealing qualities -- because Spock, as Jenkins gleefully asserts, is "someone who can bitch slap you with his brain." It's an ability shared by Obama -- who, unlike Spock, doesn't employ that superpower recreationally. His brilliance isn't a defense (or defended by sarcasm). While Obama embodies Spock's passion for reason, he adds the element of warmth.

"Bitch slap you with his brain"?

LOL!

Blog long and prosper.

Be Well.

Obama is Uhura.

Uhura is Freedom.

So yer saying Obama is freedom?

Unintentional correctness from Tosser!

WooT!

Be Well.

Uhura is Freedom.

So yer saying Obama is freedom?

It is? I did?

Fuck fuck... no.. delete delete.... o bloody hell...

Why didn't I know that? I've been a trekkie all me life!

I find that highly illogical.

Why didn't I know that?

Prolly cos you don't speak Swahili yet!

"Uhuru" is the Swahili word for Freedom.

When reading for the as yet un-named part for Gene Roddenberry Nichelle Nicholes brought a copy of the book "Black Uhuru" with her and explained wot it meant to the Great White Bird.

He liked it so much he feminized the word with the "a" ending and hired NN. Once the studio found out he'd hired a black woman for the show they tried to get him to fire her. Gene refused. On a funny side note because of this racial issue Nichelle ended up making more money than most of her fellow cast memebers cos they were on contract while she was making union rates.

I've been a trekkie all me life!

Spud too.

Let yer geek flag fly high!

I find that highly illogical.

Spud finds yer response fascinating.

Be Well.

If this topic's thread ever makes it to the front page could the blog god please remove the double postage earlier.

Oh, and this one too.

TYVM.

Be Well.

Isn't Spock gay?

Maybe. But you're probably just stupid.

Isn't Spock gay?

Well yeah ...but only every 7 years or so.

Also ...he's a secret Romulan.

And he's coming to take yer phasers away from yas!

Be Well.

SPUD

A friend drove a real beater around during college. He told everyone: "It's actually a Rolls-Royce disguised by a Romulan cloaking device to look like a piece of crap Ford so no one will steal it".

"Isn't Spock gay?"

No, dumbass. That was Sulu.

A friend drove a real beater around during college. He told everyone: "It's actually a Rolls-Royce disguised by a Romulan cloaking device to look like a piece of crap Ford so no one will steal it".

LOL!

Spud actually used to have a mini-Klingon Battle Cruiser that had a cloaking device on that made it resemble a rusty Yugo.

Zero to Warp Six in 6.2 seconds!

Man, did Spud win hisself some pink slips with THAT back in the day!

Had to give it up when the price of dilithium crystals went through the roof.

14 dilithium crystals to the parsec is sucky mileage!

Eventually traded it in fer the Popemobile that was auctioned off after JPII died.

Doesn't go nearly as fast but Catholic chicks dig it!

^_^

Be Well.

Zero to Warp Six in 6.2 seconds!

SPUD

LOL I have an old classic Mercedes diesel I drive once in awhile. 0 to 60 in 2 minutes flat! People occasionally flip me off when I'm taking off from a light. All I can do is tell the windshield "I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!".

"I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!".

LOL

* Best Scotty Voice *

The engines canna take any more, Captain!

Spud really got a kick out of the Scotty character.

He was an Irish-Canadian actor playing a Scotsman with a brogue thicker than an English fog.

His best scene was that bar fight in The Trouble with Tribbles where he witheld his temper after hearing Kirk described as a Denebian Slime Devil but then totally lost it when some Klingon shiathead dared to insult the Enterprise.

Ah, good times, good times.

RIP Jimmy D.

"Welshie" wasn't half the engineer you were!

Be Well.

"I transported the whole kit and kaboodle into the Klingon engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."

"I transported the whole kit and kaboodle into the Klingon engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."

LOL.

Best. Tag Line. EVAR!

/Actually it wasn't until years later that Spud considered the fate of those poor little tribbles aboard the other ship and then it wasn't so funny.

//Then Spud remembered that it was just a show and started laughing again.

^_^

Be Well.

If Obama is Spock, Bush must be one of the three stooges

If Obama is Spock, Bush must be one of the three stooges

Larry, Moe, Curly, Curly Joe and Shemp all take offence at yer foul aspersions!

Spud just thinks it's funny.

Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!

Actually, Bush was more like a brain dead Muppet than a stooge.

One with Cheney's hand up his ass continually making him say wotever the fuck Dickless wanted him to.

Be Well.

" Bush was more like a brain dead Muppet "

Alfred E. Newman

Wot, me LOL, eh?

FF.

Be Well.

Alfred E. Newman

Wot, me LOL, eh?

FF.

Be Well.

Frickin' double post agin. All apologies.

FTFA: "I am a first-generation 'Star Trek' fan, and I've long argued that many of my deepest political convictions emerged from my experience of watching the program as a young man growing up in Atlanta during the civil rights era," declares Henry Jenkins, co-director of the MIT comparative media studies program and author of "Convergence Culture." "In many ways, my commitment to social justice was shaped in reality by Martin Luther King and in fantasy by 'Star Trek.'"

There is indeed a moral center to the Star Trek universe that continues to elude many earthlings to this day. A society that has surpassed racism, greed and nationalism is a goal worth aiming for no matter how long we fail to achieve it.

To try and create a society that has taken advantage of science in order to cultivate further unities amongst the stars is a beautiful thing.

Be Well.

And he's coming to take yer phasers away from yas!

He'll never take my batleth... a true warrior needs only his blade. Qplah!

"And he's coming to take yer phasers away from yas!"

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

He'll never take my batleth... a true warrior needs only his blade. Qplah!

"A runnnig man can slit a thousand throats in one night"

~Old Klingon Proverb

Still no Tu'voc references?

Dang!

Be Well.

Spock was classic. Tuvok was a boring character. T'pol had a couple of things working in her favor.

Obama's more of a Benjamin Sisko...

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

As far as Spud can tell the gun nuts on the right should pick a side.

Either BE a group of increasingly demented and violence prone extremist wing-nuts or COMPLAIN about being labelled violence prone extremist wing nuts.

Not both.

Either/Or.

Be Well.

Spock was classic.

Agreed.

Tuvok was a boring character.

Spud was gonna say a "pale imitation" but... ya know.

T'pol had a couple of things working in her favor.

Would totally hit that like the hand of an angry god.

Be Well.

"A runnnig(sic) man can slit a thousand throats in one night"

Piker.

Leonidas was a "gun nut?"

Obama's more of a Benjamin Sisko...

No Drama Obama is kinda quietish but nowhere near as dull as Sisko.

Sisko made Tuvok look like Kirk.

Piker.

One beep fer yes.
Two beeps fer no.

Must see new Trek movie tomorrow.

Spud's got it inked in on the "big list o' stuff to do" fer Tuesday.

Be Well.

"One beep fer yes.
Two beeps fer no."

Good one, Tater.

Haven't they just about overkilled Star Trek?? I mean hell You had Star Trek Star Trek the next generation Star Trek voager Star Trek Deep Space nine I know I am forgetting some. I was never into Star Trek Mom sure was however. I guess You have to be a Trekkie to get it. I guess I just wasn't into all that SciFi shit. Except for Tom Baker in Dr Who and Hard Time on Planet Earth the one that the bastard Karate Instructor on Karate Kid was on.

Larry

Leonidas was a "gun nut?"

More of a spear nut... madness...

"Haven't they just about overkilled Star Trek??"

Larry

#38 | Posted by LarryMohr at 2009-05-09 10:49 PM | Reply | Flag: Tens of millions of dollars disagree.

Leonidas was a "gun nut?"

Nope, but the wing-nuts who've currently latched on to that bit o' Latinese certainly seem to be.

Don't get Spud wrong. In his own weird way Spud's a bit of a gun nut hisself. Luff to shoot. Believe strongly in a citizens right to arm and defend oneself in an increasingly hostile world. Believe strongly that concealed carry saves more lives than it loses.

All that.

That sed and noted, gun registration, tighter controls to keep guns out of the hands of felons and head cases are simply common sensical approaches by Spud's lights. Encouraging (but not making mandatory) the use of gun safes and biometric devices to keep guns out of the hands of kids and criminals also makes sense to Spud

Somewhere between "destroy all guns everywhere" and "Right to arm bears and shoot people in the back" lies a safe, sane, sensible approach to the issue that's being shouted over by extremists at both ends of the debate's spectrum.

Rtards are cynically fueling the fire about the whole "Obama is coming to take out guns" nonsense and people who were not altogether that stable to begin with are now getting nuttier by the day.

Which in turn fuels the fire on the other side of the debate in a viscious circle of feces tossing.

Not good.

That's Spud's point.

Be Well.

"More of a spear nut... madness..."

#39 | Posted by ZombieHunter at 2009-05-09 10:51 PM

20,000 Persians
300 Spartans

Shit, The Alamo comes in second to those guys.

I guess the old adage is true. You could sell Ice to an Eskimo or another Star Trek movie to a Geek/Nerdy type of person. Hey at least it's not for killing so that's a plus.

Larry

"gun registration"

Naive flag.

Law enforcement.
When are ABC News' strawman and his financiers going to be arrested?

Nope, but the wing-nuts who've currently latched on to that bit o' Latinese certainly seem to be.

"Guns are good as long as they are used to kill Persians. If got together 300 of us and we had enough bullets..."

-What happens when AIPAC and the NRA come to an agreement...

"Geek/Nerdy type of person"

That's not who's going.

"20,000 Persians"

Or one free Turkish Angora ...

OK Zatoichi Educate Me. What type of person goes to a Star Trek Movie. Thanks in Advance for Your teaching.

Larry

"What type of person goes to a Star Trek Movie."

I'll let you know tomorrow, Larry.

A good movie is about character development and story telling.

The last movie I wanted to see again was Apocalypto.

"gun registration"

Can knife registration be far behind?
What's next? Ice pick and box cutter registration?
Next thing you know they'll be registering the dreaded car antenna.

#48 | Posted by LarryMohr

One that is willing to travel more then a mile from a 7/11 or Burger King.

rwd

I'm so sorry RWD. We have no 7/11's here and I dispise fast food. Sorry to burst Your fantasy about Me.

Larry

#52

You are a liar coward.Just the other blog you stated your preference for "a dab of mayo" on your burger while driving,along with draping your arm around a 64oz no ice to keep you company.

rwd

"I dispise(sic) fast food. "

" I dispose of vast quantities of fast food. "

There, fixed.

"dispose"

Glad I caught that before I posted.
LoL

rwd

Can knife registration be far behind?
What's next? Ice pick and box cutter registration?
Next thing you know they'll be registering the dreaded car antenna.

THAT gets a FF ...and a Slippery Slope Flag.

A good movie is about character development and story telling.

Damn straight.

The last movie I wanted to see again was Apocalypto.

Still aint seen it.

If Spud can find a way to view it w/o slipping a nickel in Mad Mel's pocket Spud'll at least look the thing.

OTOH, Spud has seen Watchmen 7 times now.

That's an "own it" thang.

Larry, Zat is right. This particular Star Trek flick blows the old canon away and invites a fresh new audience of non-trekkies into the fold by all accounts.

Spud is wait till Tuesday so he can see it with a group of like minded individuals all flying at the same aproximate altitude.

Be Well.

"Still aint seen it."

"I am jaguar paw!"

A new Trek movie always gets my attention.
Wrath of Khan was the best.
Khan cutting into the Enterprise with the USS Reliants phasers took me out of my seat.
Noooooooooooooo.

rwd

Damn, boy, go see that one.

Well, Spud was gonna go see it after yer initial rave reviews despite Spud's Mad Mel mini-boycott.

But then Rex started talking it up too and Spud decided against it.

Still wanna see it but just don't want Mel to profit from Spud's viewing experience. Won't do downloaded flix cos of the whole "stealing is bad" thang.

I'm into the Maya thing, ya know?

Spud finds the Mayan Culture, to borrow a word from Mr. Spock, fascinating.

Be Well.

Wrath of Khan was the best

Tru dat.

The scene with Checkov and that nasty-assed alien ear-wig thang is still excruciating to watch.

"From Hell's Heart I stab at thee!"

"KHAAAAAAAAAAN!"

Luffs it.

Be Well.

You are a liar coward.Just the other blog you stated your preference for "a dab of mayo" on your burger while driving,along with draping your arm around a 64oz no ice to keep you company.

rwd

Posted by rightwingdon at 2009-05-09 11:42 PM | Reply

Yeah when I am on the road. Not when I am in My hometown. That doesn't make Me a liar. But do keep up with Your fantasies.

Larry

Yeah when I am on the road.

#61 | Posted by LarryMohr

Yeah when you're on the road to Burger King.
You said you despised it.Now you don't, that makes you a liar.
You said you are bisexual Larry?
I would hate to see that four way.
Send me a tape anyway.

rwd

You can dispise something and still eat it. There were a few times when I was in jail that I dispised the jailhouse slop. I ate it anyways cause it was either eat or starve. But I will allow You to continue fantasizing about Me RWD. I would hate to ruin Your fantasy.

Larry

OMG I just read the last part of Your post RWD. You want ME to send YOU a tape of ME having sex????????? Jesus Christ You just ain't right in the head at all. I wouldn't even watch it much less tape it. My G-d dude are You that desperate?? I think I am going to puke now. GROSS.

Larry

Actually I liken him to Dumbo. First because he is so dumb and then there are of course the ears.

First because he is so dumb

Buzzy calling Obama dumb?

Bwa hahah haha haha haha haha!

You so crazy!

Dude, Obama's dog is smarter than you and he aint even house trained yet.

Yer not even half as smart as Dumbya and he's not one tenth as Smart Obama.

You slay, dude!

Keep up the lulfest.

Be Well.

Amok Time!

The last movie I wanted to see again was Apocalypto.

Still aint seen it.

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Apocalyto is a very good movie. You should see it.

I saw the new Star Trek movie last night. It's okay but I would recommend waiting until it comes out on cable to see it. it's definitely not worth $10/head.

We have a drive-in that we go to, so the whole car can get in for 18 dollars. Plus you get two movies.

The other one was The Soloist. If you enjoy a film that has a story with some real depth, I recommend this movie highly. As usual, Robert Downey JR and Jamie Fox both do excellent performances. This movie will miss the usual awards mentions because it doesn't do what this kind of movie is supposed to do in hollywood-land.

Next thing you know they'll be registering the dreaded car antenna.

I got mine off of an old Ford econoline van....not only is it deadly...it also gives the victim van-aerial disease.

Obama will bitch slap you with his teleprompter.

Spud, Obama is just an empty suit being led around by his handlers and teleprompter speech writers. Any time he goes off script the uhs and ohs come out in force.

Spud, Obama is just an empty suit being led around by his handlers and teleprompter speech writers. Any time he goes off script the uhs and ohs come out in force.

No dude. Dumbya was an empty suit. A puppet for Cheney and his band of merry neo-con-artists.

Obama, unlike Bush, writes a lot of his own speeches and delivers them to great effect.

His hemming and hawing while speaking off the cuff indicates that he thinking and choosing his next words carefully which is a sign of his intelligence and leadership.

All pols use teleprompters and every time you reiterate that rtard sound byte you just end up looking even dumber than you did when you first opened yer mouth.

Yer crayons are all broken now.

Go back to Rush and ask him fer a fresh pack and maybe a sharpener too this time, eh?

Be Well.

it also gives the victim van-aerial disease

Funniest thing I've heard today

it also gives the victim van-aerial disease.

#69 | Posted by jubal_harshaw

When my drink came out my nose does that mean you waterboarded me?

I am a long time trekkie but did not like the new movie.

It was a roller coaster ride, to be sure, but you could drive a star ship through the plot holes.

Good cast, bad writing.

Cheers

"I am a long time trekkie but did not like the new movie." - Grendel

This movie sure is generating a lot of unambivalent reaction. But I'm still ambivalent about going to see it in a theatre. Guess that's what happens when one is a fence-sitting independent.

Spock would not be trying to pass Barry's illogical bullshit budget that plays to the emotions of Demotribbles.

I am a long time trekkie but did not like the new movie.

It was a roller coaster ride, to be sure, but you could drive a star ship through the plot holes.

Good cast, bad writing.

Meh, Spud hated the first Star Trek movie when it first came out but still watched it along with all the rest that followed.

Not expecting interstellar War and Peace just a cool popcorn flick that reinvents the wheel.

Spud's gonna smoke a load of BC Bud and set his brain on stun before attempting it.

That should help.

Be Well.

What he said!

Spudfuck wrote,

"Obama, unlike Bush, writes a lot of his own speeches and delivers them to great effect"

Lets see if that is true. Here is a classic Obama speech. How about you give me a grade between A and F on this one.

To be honest, I didn't wade thru this entire thing, as I am sure those who LOVE Obama will agree, and those who HATE Obama will think it was a travesty... so no opinions will be changed.

I just wanted to state that I have seen a lot more of Obama and his administration playing on peoples "hopes" and "fears" and such emotions than on the logic if his ideas.

Doesn't say his ideas are right or wrong, only that he is not using LOGIC to sell them. I don't remember Spock ever telling the Capt to "HOPE" that the numbers were right... other than that stupid sceen in Voyage Home... what a silly waste of a few hours...

I just wanted to state that I have seen a lot more of Obama and his administration playing on peoples "hopes" and "fears" and such emotions than on the logic if his ideas.

Spud finds Obama to be far more logical in his speech and ideas than any of his immediate predeccessors, certainly. In terms of selling his ideas to the masses? Americans do logic about as well as they do nuance, unfortunately. Inspirational political speeches must always have an emotional subtext that is graspable by even the most LCD listener if you want a high degree of success. Obama understands that almost intuitively and hones his message accordingly.

Anything less wouldn't be logical.

Be Well.

Personally I give him an F- on this speech!

Dude, you'd give the Sermon on the Mount an F- if Jesus had a D after his name.

You. Are. A. Hack.

K. Thanx. Bye.

Be Well.

LIBERTARIAN

I think you've got your political parties misscabubulated.

Obama is playing into the "Hope" that is ingrained in each and every one of us.

It's the Republicans who were selling mushroom clouds and Iraqi drones over the Jersey shoreline.

Salon: Obama is Spock

Salon and you lefties have to seriously think about getting a life....in the real world.

they still have drive ins?

I don't care much for Obama either but it's racist for you to call him a spook. That's just Wrong!

they still have drive ins?

#88 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

Up here in no-mans land the drive in is the only theater for 150 miles..it is one of just a few left still operating in Canada.

KHAAAAAAAAAA
-Kirk

Obaaaaaaaaaaamaaa!
-Glen Beck

I don't care much for Obama either but it's racist for you to call him a spook. That's just Wrong!

#89 | Posted by STIRSUMUP at 2009

K, that's a FF.

Actually went and saw Star Trek today at a matinee showing.

Good flick.

Spud can reccomend.

Plotholes you can fly a starship through?

Laws yes.

Set yer implausibility meter to it's lowest levels or better yet leave it at home.

That sed, it worked. It was a pretty cool idea to have a re-imagining of the original origin with fresh new faces. All comic fans know that the origin issues are the ones that sell best and this was a new origin for the franchise. Starting a new canon not bound by the old one gives old fans a new beginning and new fans a chance to get in on the ground floor, so to speak. It mostly succeeded as a highly enjoyable blend of the beloved and familiar mixed with a real sense of "we can go anywhere from here".

The main actors are all very believable and highly likable in their roles. New Spock and Kirk rawk. Ms Uhura kicked ass. Bones musta been channeling Deforrest or sommat cos his performance was so spot on. Sulu and Checkov totally pulled their weight in their limited roles. Best comic potential Spud found was in the new Scotty.

Nimoy had a nice quiet understated perfomance with quiet humour, one that he managed to pull off despite the highly illogical script at times.

It was actually a pretty emotionally satisfying movie albeit a little too coincidence-laden at times. A fast paced and fun popcorn movie with plenty of action, pathos, techno-upgrades and laughs that's fit for both old fans and new ones alike.

Yes. Want more of these, please.

Oh, and a coke and some popcorn.

Large. Real butter. Ta.

Be Well.