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Commander Riker wants to help you with your IT solutions.
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Posted on 10/28/2014 7:56:42 PM PDT by DemforBush

Jonathan Frakes and the Enterprise-D appear in this 90's ad for the (now defunct) software company Boole & Babbage.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: commercial; frakes; software
It's an outside the box approach, I'll give it that much.
1 posted on 10/28/2014 7:56:42 PM PDT by DemforBush
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2 posted on 10/28/2014 7:59:27 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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Pretty cool. A HAL-9000 could never have done that.


3 posted on 10/28/2014 8:22:11 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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4 posted on 10/28/2014 8:46:46 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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My Number One would never be caught dead peddling defunct 20th century software.


5 posted on 10/28/2014 8:57:46 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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6 posted on 10/28/2014 9:01:37 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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The original series with Kirk, Spock and others was the only real Star Trek. All the subsequent stuff was dreck licensed through a franchise of the same name.


7 posted on 10/28/2014 9:02:42 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: DemforBush

“Fire at Will!”


8 posted on 10/28/2014 9:05:04 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: DemforBush

Delivered in a box of 3.5’ Floppy Disks marked 1-163, and conveniently storable on a Zip Drive.


9 posted on 10/28/2014 9:20:37 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Oy, I remember those days.

Bless the 2x CD-ROM dad picked up.


10 posted on 10/28/2014 9:28:12 PM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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Boole and Babbage great names in computing. had nothing to do with the company. and there is Ada Lovelace (countess)


11 posted on 10/28/2014 10:28:20 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: DemforBush

A small piece of my brain has just died.


12 posted on 10/29/2014 8:37:36 AM PDT by golux
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It reminds me of how pretentious Star Trek: The Next Generation was.


13 posted on 10/29/2014 10:41:17 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Crazieman

that was so well done!


14 posted on 10/29/2014 10:45:44 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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in a lot of ways it was, there were some good episodes but a lot of bad ones too


15 posted on 10/29/2014 11:26:25 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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In a bar fight between Kirk and Picard. Who would win?
Kirk would. Picard would be explaining the rules and while doing so, Kirk would hit him over the head with a chair.


16 posted on 10/29/2014 11:56:40 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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lol

sounds about right


17 posted on 10/29/2014 12:02:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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