Yeah....but it didn't have cheese in it (or did it? I don't remember) Anyway, this is the closest I could find:
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
OT, that croissant is making my mouth water!
Two classics of the genre... I would also recommend Blish's short story 'Beep', and Asimov's Robot stories (many of them collected in I, Robot.)
Bester's 'The Demolished Man', and Heinlein's (?) 'The Stars My Destination'
As Jen pointed out, The Stars My Destination is also by Alfred Bester... both of these are classics. I call Stars my "wow" book, because the first time I read it I kept saying "Wow!"
classics of the 40's and 50's
Don't leave out the dean of early SF, E.E. "Doc" Smith and his Lensmen series. The first space opera, it introduces a lot of SF ideas that became commonplace later.
the only previous real captain of the Enterprise was Jean Luc Picard
You mean that French guy who couldn't get past the first hour of the first episode without bleating out, "We surrender"? (rolling eyes)
Not that anybody asked me, but I keep thinking a waltz would be appropriate for Dwarves... something slow, stately, and very dignified.
Well, isn't that how Dwarves view themselves?
-Sleepy hobbit
I did, I did! IIRC, as Isildur holds Sauron's finger on his palm, the finger turns to ash and blows away, and then the ring shrinks down to human-sized.
Aragorn is wearing a ring on his index finger.
If I remember the earlier discussion of that ring correctly, it's supposed to be the Ring of Barahir. Barahir was the father of Beren; the ring was given to him by the Elf king Finrod Felagund as a token of friendship (back in the First Age, natch.) The ring was passed down through the descendents of Beren and Luthien to the Kings of Numenor, and was one of the relics brought out of the destruction of Numenor by Elendil and his sons.
Well remember 'Q' had godlike powers. If Picard hadn't surrendered, as far as he knew the Enterprise would have been destroyed, and they would have taken it out of his salary. You know that a Frenchman wouldn't put up with an unjustified expense like that!
Well there was that show when he visited his brother at the vinyard in France, and the last show of the series when an old Picard was trimming the grape vines, isn't that French enough?
Well, I wouldn't know about that... all I know is Kirk beat up aliens with godlike powers every other week! No surrendering for him! ;)
Yeah....but it didn't have cheese in it (or did it? I don't remember) Anyway, this is the closest I could find:
OMG!! An actual cheese-eating surrender monkey! I didn't know they'd been filmed in their natural habitat! (Other than the bridge of the Enterprise-D, I mean.)
Kirk, Kirk, isn't he the only captain of a Galaxy Class Starship to get himself killed twice?? And in the same movie!!
This is Liberty Hall. You can spit on the mat and call the cat....
Hey, now, most captains only manage to get themselves killed once and it's game over! Not Kirk though, he found a way back so he could do it again! ;)
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