Posted on 01/21/2005 6:01:58 PM PST by PJ-Comix
One great way to get your post count up to the magic 1000 in DUmmieland is to go into the DUmmie Lounge and post in one of the many non-political discussions. It is much easier to get your post count up this way than to join one of the political discussions since you are much less likely to “out” yourself. As an example, let us join in this DUmmie Star Trek THREAD titled, “Captain Pike was an idiot.” So let us Beam Down to DUmmieland to observe this Star Trek episode. Of course, any crew member joining us in this adventure named Ensign Smith is sure to DIE so you might as well start building his casket now. The Klingon DUmmie rantings are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, with his Phaser set on Stun, is in the [brackets]:
Captain Pike was an idiot. Here he is, on a planet with a woman who is HOT HOT HOT!, and is hot in many different forms, and yet he insists on getting back to the Enterprise. And yeah, Vina, in real life, is a horribly deformed yucko; but the Talosians can make her into anything! And what they make her into is HOT HOT HOT!
[God Bless those Talosians. I only wish they could have worked their magic on a few blind dates I had in the past. One in particular looked just like Nikita Khruschev in drag with a horrible garlic stench on her breath. The Talosians could have made her look like the young version of Sophia Loren but could they also have gotten rid of that horrible breath?]
Hubby and I have discussed this as well. Odd that I agree w/ you, yet he would not
[Maybe your hubby was thinking of calling up the Talosians to give YOU a major makeover.]
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!"
[An interesting thing about those Talosians is that they seemed like big headed gay aliens. Perhaps the Talosians were the forerunners to the “Queer Eye” series. Nothing against the Talosians, of course, but I would prefer NOT to enter any Talosian bars. Not that there is anything wrong with being a Talosian.]
You're still right, though - if he'd stayed when he had the chance, he wouldn't have had that accident, and wouldn't have had to go back to the planet. he could have stayed with the hottie, never knowing what she really looked like, and lived a life of sexual bliss and harmony.
[That was a two-part episode, The Menagerie. One of my faves. However, I got a bigger kick out of the episode where Spock had to have sex once every seven years or he would go crazy.]
Of course he was an idiot. That's why they replaced him with the best ST captain ever: James T. Kirk!
[I don’t know about acting but I will admit that Kirk can sing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds better.]
Yeah, I'm glad they knocked him off and put in Kirk. Kirk was way better! Though I wish Majel could have stayed in her role - she was a hottie, and should have gotten more time on screen in that awesome outfit. She wasn't so interesting as Nurse Chapel.
[At least Gene Roddenberry got to shtoop Nurse Chapel on a regular basis.]
Only when Vina regained consciousness... that's when their fun began! It's a great story all the same...And to think, it's Spock (and not Kirk) who had the idea of getting Pike back to Talos 4 so he could get jiggy with Vina...
[Although Spock only had sex once every seven years, he was also an extreme voyeur. Think Spock wasn’t watching the Pike/Vina action on his viewfinder? Which reminds me, with all that advanced Star Trek technology, how come no X-Rated DVDs on board?]
Jeffrey Hunter was a *terrible* actor...I watched "Menagerie" in recent years, and was struck by just how unutterably awful he was. Shatner looks like a genius in comparison.
[You don’t like Jeffrey Hunter as a Star Trek captain? Fine. But he was THE definitive Jesus and didn’t play the part with an accent like that heathen furriner, Max Von Sydow.]
Did you ever see Hunter play Jesus! I can't even remember the name of the movie -- I couldn't take it.
[Either King of Kings or The Greatest Story Ever Told. I get them confused. And I have accepted Jeffrey Hunter in my heart as the ONE TRUE HOLLYWOOD Jesus.]
Picard wasn't any better. See, only Kirk is da' man here!
[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.]
He didn't want to be a captive and a guinea pig. It was only after he was imprisoned in his own body that he realized what he'd given up. Fortunately for him, he got a rare second chance for happiness.
[Yeah. I remember Pike was stuck inside of a metal box contraption. He looked like he was halfway into a coma and the only way he could communicate was with a light on the contraption. One blink meant “Yes,” and Two blinks meant “No.” Or was it the reverse? Or was that all communicated via red and green lights? I hate to say this but Ross Perot’s 1992 running mate reminded me an awful lot of Pike in the metal box.]
Great analysis, sir; that was what I was getting out of it (I never paid much attention to television)--some sort of story with a moral to the effect that we should do what we have to do, rather than what we wish to do, or like to do.
<<never seen any washed up old farts here.
Maybe perhaps possibly not young, or maybe perhaps possibly not redolent of pleasant perfume, but definitely not "washed up."
The difference between a FReeper and a DUmmie is that a FReeper is an optimist, a person full of hope, while a DUmmie wallows in his own swill of regret that his "time" passed more than 30 years ago, and he is rapidly becoming extinct.
"that heathen furriner, Max Von Sydow.]"
Played evil Brewmeister Schmidt in the funniest of all movies, Strange Brew!
It ALWAYS happened. Kirk, Spock, Bones, and an Ensign Smith would beam down to a hostile planet. Guess which one ALWAYS got killed?
Man, no kidding. The themes of responsibility, duty, and honor, the question of "what maketh a man?", were at the very core of "The Cage", and yet the only thing these snickering jackasses get out of the episode is "man, I'd abandon my ship and crew to get some from the hot chick on Talos!" Not coincidentally, this notion of pursuing personal gain at the expense of the people one has served with exactly sums up John Kerry's career.
-Dan
.STAR TREK
VOYEUR
While I don't know if it was "hardcore" Dyanne Thorne, who was in the episode "Piece of the action" ,appeared in the Illsa She Wolf of the SS series of films.
The reason I don't know if it is "hardcore" is becaue I never seen it...really, I didn't! I PROMISE!!!!
He also had emotions.Remember the scene when the landing party is exploring the area before they find the "survivors".There is a plant that chimes like bells when you touch it,Spock looks at it and smiles.
Yeah, that was because Malachi Throne, the guy who did the voice of the head Talosian, came back later in the series to guest in "The Menagerie", which of course repackaged "The Cage".... so they had to go back and re-re-dub the Talosian's voice to avoid confusion. Later on, the original color print of "The Cage" was lost, so they reconstructed the episode using the color footage from "The Menagerie" sandwiched together with the footage from Roddenberry's original black-and-white workprint of "The Cage". So what you ended up with was the Talosian's voice changing back and forth in the reconstructed "The Cage".
----Also Spock, while serving under Pike, seemed to have an ATTITUDE problem. Very unlike the calm Spock who served under Kirk.----
Spock WAS pretty freewheeling during the Pike years.
-Dan
"I bet most of these are old washed-up farts."
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There you go again with the old farts...or was it me talking to you yesterday, asking you not to call me an old fart, until you knew me better......?
Tee hee, franksolich! ;-)
I thought I was the only person in the world that remembers that movie.
Madam, I would never call a lady an "old fart," even if she were a DUmmie; it goes against the grain.
Too bad the DUmmies don't understand what keeping faith means. It's why Pike returned to the Enterprise. But then, they backed Kerry and loved him.....and he didn't understand either.
"They're DUmmies Jim."
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