DUmmie FUnnies 01-21-05 ("Captain Pike was an idiot")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | January 21, 2005 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[infidel29]

"...I totally agree.....Why go back to the Enterprise, when you can be with that hottie. Plus the fact that the Talosians can make her look hot forever. I would have said, 'F**K the Enterprise, I'm staying here!'"

One can equate this to their teisted view of government as well. "I don't care what it's really like, it looks pretty and I want it. Meanwhile "F" the rest of the "crew" (nation) I'm getting what I want!"

[Oztrich Boy]

Who are these people? Pike? Who? What?

*Pike's not a name; it's a fish"

[infidel29]

"how come no X-Rated DVDs on board?"

That's what the "holodeck" was for.

[HungarianGypsy]

Wasn't it George -- what's his name -- ? He played Sulu, said that Shatner was kind of that crazy Uncle Bill everyone has in there family.

[infidel29]

"...Jeffrey Hunter was a *terrible* actor..."

I liked Jeffrey Holder, he played that voo-doo guy punjab or whatever in the Bond flick "Live and Let Die"

[infidel29]

"True. I just couldn’t accept Chrome Dome Picard as a Star Trek captain. However, he did portray a great Lenin on Materpiece Theater’s Fall Of Eagles."

I liked him as Guinevere's father in the movie "Excalibur"

[HungarianGypsy]

My neighbor's 16 year old daughter calls the cute guys hotties.

[NeoCaveman]

Huh? What about Jim Caviezel?

I'm with you on this one. He's the one and only true Hollywood Jesus.

[killjoy]

[freedumb2003]

Besides,

Kirk got more action as Captain than the Talosians could even dream up!

[freedumb2003]

Bookmarked to steal when I am on my "regular" computer

[Flux Capacitor]

----Why does it not surprise me that DUmmies are rabid Trekkies? Gene Roddenberry's goofy utopianism probably gets them all hot and bothered, though as Thomas Disch rightly points out, Star Trek is all about conformity--everyone puts on a uniform, sits at a desk, and gives complete loyalty to the boss while he goes off to jump it with the hot alien women and they work their boring desk jobs.----

Actually, the original show wasn't like that at all -- the characters in it acted like actual human beings. All of that utopian, "enlightened humanity" junk didn't get started until the '70s, when Roddenberry started believing his own press and decided that STAR TREK was a philosophy (rather than just a damned good television drama, the last gasp of television's Golden Age), and gladly accepted the godlike status that the fans laid upon him. The guy was an egomaniac and a serious hypocrite; that's how "The Next Generation", along with all of its anti-capitalist "we've evolved beyond the need for money" crap, and its squishy, dehumanized Stepford Crew, got going.

But the original show was excellent, and "The Cage" is one of the best examples of it. As far as conformity went, well hell, it was a military vessel.

(And you DON'T have to be a slobbering leftist to be a Trekkie. Ask Jonah Goldberg.)

-Dan

[Mr. Silverback]

They haven't detected any "hotties" in the burkahs!

LOL!

[Darkwolf377]

I guess we saw two different shows. The utopianism was pretty obvious--the "non intereference directive" was talked about while in every episode the enlightened crew brought the joys of liberalism to every world they encountered. The conformity is pretty obvious. And the SF ideas were "new" to TV but ancient in terms of written SF. I did enjoy it as a kid, but the few episodes I've seen as an adult convince me this show was wildly overrated. The three lead actors were well-suited to the roles, but that's pretty much all this had going for it.

[PJ-Comix]

The alien race of Pelosians are most notable for their frozen faces.

[PJ-Comix]

WOW! You're like a living Star Trek encyclopedia. Do you go to the ST conventions?

[PJ-Comix]

LOL!

[PJ-Comix]

I liked him as Guinevere's father in the movie "Excalibur"

EXCALIBUR!!! One of my faves.

[Flux Capacitor]

Well, after the first twenty years of watching these things over and over again and reading all the cast-and-crew memoirs, you start to pick up bits of info. :)

Actually, as Trekkies fans go, I'm relatively normal.... I've never dressed up or walked down the street giving people the Vulcan handsign or demanded a more respectable title like "Trekker" or anything. Check out the "Trekkies" documentary to see people who've gone way too far.

The hardest-core Trekkies would never hang around a site like FR, being far more concerned about the election of the President of the United Federation of Planets than that of the President of the United States.

-Dan

[PJ-Comix]

I'm with you on this one. He's the one and only true Hollywood Jesus.

Caviezel was too ethnic to portray Jesus. I prefer an All-American Jesus like Jeffrey Hunter.