Posted on 12/24/2020 10:20:30 AM PST by White Lives Matter
Vice President Mike Pence announced on December 19 that personnel in the Space Force branch of the U.S. Armed Forces will be officially called Guardians, which prompted some wisecracking from writer-director James Gunn. Since Space Force’s new “Guardians” title overlaps with Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, the filmmaker shot back at the vice president on social media, writing: “Can we sue this dork?”
Flash forward to this week and “Star Wars” legend Mark Hamill got in on the Space Force skewering. Responding to Gunn, Hamill quipped, “So they grab the ‘Guardians’ from your movies, they use the ‘Force’ from our movies…then they have the gall to just steal their logo from ‘Star Trek’? Let’s file a three-way joint lawsuit and really nail these larcenous bastards!”
“Star Trek” icon William Shatner took notice of Hamill’s comment, but he wasn’t about to let “Star Trek” get grouped into Space Force. “Sorry [Mark Hamill] and [James Gunn] but Starfleet has to sit this one out because the symbol is actually an upside down Pontiac car logo. Maybe General Motors is building their fleet?”
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The opportunity to name a force is a momentous responsibility. Guardians is a name with a long history in space operations, tracing back to the original command motto of Air Force Space Command in 1983, “Guardians of the High Frontier.”— United States Space Force (@SpaceForceDoD) December 18, 2020
Did this moron ever hear of the United States Air Force? It's more like Lucas stole the word "Force" from the United States Air Force.
USAF is too busy playing golf to sue Space Force........
Sorry, ex-Navy Aviation..... :^)
Merry Christmas!
Shatner is funny as he$$. He just doesn’t care, that is true freedom.
Most illogical.
The first USS Enterprise ship was at the battle of Midway in 1942 before Pike, Kirk, and the space ship flew on TV.
FIFY
Even before that. CV-6 USS Enterprise was launched 3 October 1936 and was nicknamed the Grey Ghost because the Japanese claimed to have sunk her three times.
No, the first US Enterprise was built in 1776.
https://www.navalhistory.org/2015/03/06/the-legacy-of-the-enterprise-will-continue-to-cvn-80
In the words of Shatner addressing Trekkies years ago on an SNL skit:
“Get a life.”
These actors forget one important fact.
You played fictional characters and this the real McCoy.
Big Difference....
I always liked William Shatner. Seems like a pretty down to earth guy for a starship captain.
They’re not going to be called Spacemen? Or Spacepersons? Maybe youse guys?
The brass in the U.S. Air Force had consultants come up with a joke of a logo as part of their "branding" efforts, removing the eagle's wings and instead coming up with an image somewhere between the logos of USAA and the University of Phoenix.
What I like about Shatner is that he never became a US citizen, unlike so many other Canadians.
Actually, the first USS Enterprise in the US Navy was the ship that fired the first shots of war against the Barbary Pirates when Thomas Jefferson dined in the White House.
Bingo...
William Shatner will turn 90 on March 22nd.
They’re not going to be called Spacemen? Or Spacepersons? Maybe youse guys?
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