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Wil Wheaton to get new role on 'Enterprise'
hisholiness writes "It seems that a major underground letter writing campaign has secured Wil Wheaton (ST:TNG's Wesley Crusher) a recurring role the current 'Enterprise' series. According to his website, he states, "The details are still being worked out, but basically what they plan to do is have Wesley use his Time Traveler abilities to move through space and time to the NX-01. He'll be written more like the dark, troubled Wesley of 'The First Duty' and 'Final Mission', and less like the gee-whiz Wesley of days gone by." He continues that he will be in 8 of 22 new episodes over the next two seasons."
not another afj
Blarf.
April Fools jokes for nerds.
Stuff that will never happen.
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C'mon Wil, we know you're out there... We know you're reading. Come on, say something funny. Come on... Please?
"Goodness, how did you people live long enough to invent tools?" -Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher)
Are people even reading stories anymore?! I'm checking out of here for the day. This has quickly become a huge waste of my time.
They've got Wil Wheaton in on the April Fool's jokes too now.
Wil Wheaton has long been under recognized. I wish him best wishes in this role.
And there was much trolling, and it was lame.
And the moderators did moderate, and they did moderate well.
And the peasants rejoiced.
Huzzah!
using namespace slashdot;
troll::post();
...secret powers... *grin*
Okay, no more slashdot for the day. I'm tired of this crap.
funny munging
But can we get back to the sort-of-funny stupid jokes?
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
It seems that a major underground letter writing campaign has secured Wil Wheaton (ST:TNG's Wesley Crusher) a recurring role the current 'Enterprise' series.
Now we know what he does with all his free time.
"And like that
Wesley Crusher is one of the all time worst Star Trek characters. "Enterprise" sucks bad enough without him.
You are the ones getting fooled! You are probably the most brain-dead creatures ever in existence; sitting around on a site you claim to be stupid and annoying!
And congrats to the TacoMan: it actually works :)
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you
Funny, I just red some complaints under the previous post about too much april fools... Maybe you guys should wait until after a few serious posts to crack up again?
I have heard that he is arrogant and presumptious, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it... not like Hollywood isn't full of Prima Donnas, but I just wonder now. Were he not a 'geek' would /. necessarily care? Oh well, I always wonder about odd things like that.
I seek not only to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, I seek the things they sought.
Stop the insanity! No more blatant april fool's jokes! Please! Stop!
Everything is mainstream now.
What will you do when you come back tomorrow and it's all still crap...
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
From his site:
/.'ed. You wish that you never even registered that domain...
:-)
here's the bad news: the entire site has crashed, and we can't figure out why.I don't know when the crash happened, or why, because I was offline all weekend, but I'm working on it. I suppose that if you can read this, it means things are working again
Just wait till it get's done getting
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Hey, let's post some sites that actually have funny jokes this year. :)
I liked the one on www.gamespot.com about the Duke Nukem developers trying to fit the game in the box
You know, you're not obligated to report on every single April Fools' link on the web. Give it up.
It seems that a major underground letter writing campaign... This has to be an April Fool's joke! Who writes letters anymore?
Sell out! With me oh, yea! Sell out! With me tonight. The record company is gonna give me lots of money and everything will be alright!
Apologies to Reel Big Fish
Yep, you're a weenie. Go here for more info: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30393&cid=3266 779
"Derp de derp."
Slashdot his site! Slashdot everyone's site today! It'll be /.'s great April Fool's Joke on everyone! Melted servers!
I've got an idea. Lets BLAME TACO for all these dumb jokes. Ok, so even if it isn't all taco's fault we all blame him. Then taco gets mad at the rest of the nerds and tries to beat them up. But then Cowboy Neal just ends up sitting on taco, crushing his rib cage and killing him. The rest of the nerds are so upset that they decide they can't go on, so they throw themselves off the top of the exodus building. This causes a massive earth quake that shakes the exodus building so badly it completely destroys all of the slashdot servers, causing the end of all these stupid april fools day jokes!
Enjoy it while you can, buddy. The AC's will be back tomorrow in full force.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Get the boy off the Bridge!!!!!
The revolution will be televised. Blackout restrictions apply.
For one you could have buried a false story in the midst of real ones and have a contest to have readers decide which one is the joke...
You could give away someone's favorite Linux distro on CD or something... ANYTHING BUT THIS!
Heh yet another idiotic "I can't stand April Fool's Day post.." brought to you by... another Weenie!
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More info here:
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"Derp de derp."
OMFG, yet another unbelievable joke headline. I mean, this is about as likely to happen as, say, ummm... telling us Captain Kirk is going to host a Japanese cooking show. Sheesh.
But it won't be a Dark and Troubled Wesley until
he flirts with Belana Torres (Roxann Biggs-Dawson) who then storms off the set and threatens to kill the Dark, Troubled and Horney Wesley when he takes it a bit too far...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
If there are two things you can always count on in Star Trek, they would have to be guest appearances by characters from previous Star Trek shows and time travel. At this point I wouldn't be surprised to see an episode of Enterprise where we learn that Wesley picked up Kes from Voyager and settled down on a remote planet in the Enterprise timeline, only to be called back into action when Khan wakes up sooner than he was supposed to and starts wreaking havoc with the space-time continuum, or some such nonsense.
But what if the mysterious guy from the future IS Wesley Crusher...
...we don't have any really spectacular stories today, because no one will believe 'em. "Wolf? Yeah, right. Go home ya little..AAAAHHHH!"
First he creates his own operating system, now this...
He must be very busy...
...april fools! More like April 50th post
Wil Wheaton hangs out around here. Search for comments by CleverNickName.
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All stories will be read by the editor before adding any comments such as "this has serious ramifications for quantum computing"
Editoral budget expanded to allow for the additional 3.2 seconds required to click the spell check button
When people e-mail CmdrTaco with a concern, complaint, or question, autorespond that says, "Fuck off. I run this site, you're just a loser." will be changed to, "Thank you for your feedback. We'll take your input into consideration of this important issue and let you know of any decisions."
Editors now only have infinity minus one moderation points
April Fools jokes permanently stopped
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First it's programming and sexual relation, now this... OH well, at least we know that /. has a sense of humor :)
Next thing you know they'll post about Aliens and their secret pact with the government to bring down Microsoft... OH well, should prove to be interesting.
In other news:
/.ters have become angry and are angry and have expressed that they are not going to take it anymore. They have refused to post and when posting have made sure the site operators are aware that enuff is enuff.
In a dramatic twist, Slashdot a "geek" news site, turned the tables on would-be Anonymous Cowards and Trolls, posting inflamatory "news" articles and other mischeivous April 1st pranks - in the very spirit that they have encouraged moderators to trounce in times past.
Many
I am sure when this is all over, "News for Nerds" will be back and ACs will be posting flamebait and trolls with a vengence.....
If that doesn't whet your appetite, I have a great idea for next year: Research your stories and post them correctly, properly spelled. Hey, it's only once a year!
i just got soooooo duped :( I should know not to let my guard down today...!
Stop going to Wil's site!! My site's parked on the same server...
A bit weird, this... experiencing the Slashdot effect vicariously through Wil Wheaton.
What about Q? Where does Q fit in with all of this? And, for that matter, what is Guynan doing right now, besides wearing Hobbit feet at the Oscars?
dinner: it's what's for beer
You call for blanking the blank. And, as we all know, that's illegal, immoral, and fattening. Plus, it makes you spell badly.
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At the official ST site they have switch to a different eps for this week.
Yes, I do have a sense of humor. I am familiar with April Fools and the traditional pranking that goes on during April Fools.
Yes, I am familiar with Slashdot. I have witnessed April Fools on Slashdot several times. I know the drill.
Sad as this may be to admit, I use Slashdot to keep tabs on a broad overview of what is happening in a particular substrata of technological society. This is where I get my non-specific little pokes at new Linux packages, attacks (perceived and real) on rights-- particularly of the on-line variety, additional features in existing packages, project forks, appointments in key open-source positions, etc.
Slashdot serves its purpose to me in two ways: It very often posts something that falls into one of the topics I'm interested in, and very often a comment will be added to that post that provides me with some detailed insight. This leads me off on a researching tangent, and I end up a little bit more knowledgeable than I was before. Hooray.
The value of Slashdot lies in its shotgun approach to Journalism (save that it's only loaded with certain memetic shells, with the occasional dud like Katz for speed bumps).
Now, though, on April Fools, I'm looking at the worthless front page -- great prank, guys! It only took 20 minutes to get old, and isn't even as humorous as the much better-executed Suckdot from now-defunct Suck.
I'm also thinking about all the people who mention their stories being rejected, and who link to those stories, and lead me to discover that, hrm, maybe they shouldn't have been.
What I'm getting at here is that the world dosn't stop on April 1st, and I'm amazed that you can just call off on reporting and post not-incredibly-amusing-and-obviously-fake articles to the front page all day. Is this just like a really lame vacation where you have to spend the day at your computer for you guys? Does that suck?
I don't know, one or two posts that were clever, mixed in with real news (stuff that matters) would've been funnier. (if you observed the behaviour of trolls, you'd know that the most successful ones post a somewhat plausible stance to hook the fish, not just random noise).
Are you guys pretty much saying that Slashdot provides so litle value (or is so understaffed) that when given the choice between reporting and playing dumb pranks, that you pick the dumb pranks and can't multitask efficiently enough to do both? That's really kind of pathetic.
Feh.
-m.b. dux/RAAXE [fdAAX xQP!]
PLEASE GOD NO!!!
Maybe they can have Wesley's girlfriend be Britney Spears, but she can have red hair, and she can be a mind-reading prostitude who has some sort of special psychic bond with large rodants. She could go around the ship "silently" singing via esp in people's head to lure them into sex ("I'ma Sllllllllave for u, if you pay me 3500 credits"), yet the audience would get the privlage of hearing it.
Wait, that would be silly... Britney can't have red hair! What was I thinking...
Look at the episode guide. After the Temporal Cold War, Silik will bring the war to the Enterprise in S1E26. Its clearly the perfect setup for Wil to come back, as a time travler. Next season hasnt been filmed yet, Wil was just offered the role.
S1E11, Cold Front
gs: John Fleck (Silik) Matt Winston (Daniels) Michael O'Hagan (Captian Fraddock) Joseph Hindy (Prah Mantoos) Leonard Kelly-Young (Sonsorra) James Horan (Humanoid Figure ("Future Guy"))
rc: Silik
When the Enterprise comes in contact with an alien vessel transporting stargazers to observe a spectacular stellar event, Archer invites them aboard the ship not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them. Archer quickly realizes that Silik is engaged in a nefarious time-travelling mission and must stop him before he can tamper with the course of history.
b: 28-Nov-01 pc: ENT 111 w: Steve Beck & Tim Finch d: Robert Duncan McNeill
NOTE: The Suliban and the "Temporal Cold War" return in this episode.
S1E26 : Shockwave
gs: John Fleck (Silik)
Synopsis Unknown.
b: 22-May-02 d: Allan Kroeker
NOTE: Season Finale.
Well, that's what the goat says, anyway.
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As far back as I can remember there's always been a rule when it comes to April fools; fool anyone before noon, but after noon you're the fool. Continuing with stupid April 1st pranks after lunch is rewarded with a charlie horse or affixing someone upside-down to a telephone pole with duct tape. In the case of /. our oh-so-not-funny editors are asking for a massive community DoS, or black eye.. They're so lucky to be hiding behind their monitors giggling away at this stupid stuff, no one would stand for it if these were pranksters in meatspace..
Anyway, Bush announced the feds were giving Governors Island back to NYC. I was sitting there waiting for him to say APRIL FOOLS SUCKERS.....
...Bill Gates open sources Windows, RMS says it was all "just a fraternity prank. We at Skull and Bones never thought we could convince so many people to give away their work. I'm going to clean my self up and take that job with Texaco that W promised me."
On the international front, Arafat converted to the obscure "snake handling" sect of fundamentalist Christianity. Preachers from eastern Kentucky are en route to the West Bank.
Blah, blah, blah, April 1, Yada, yada, yada... I've pretty much written off /. for the rest of the day. Hey /. editors, it's called finesse. Look into it.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
The last time I said "I thought it was funny", it got modded -1. But, come on, a laugh is a laugh. One day a year is hardly gratuitous. I think most of the stories posted today are hilarious. It's making my work day all the more bearable.
:D
So don't bitch!
Having so many April Fool's Day joke references on Slashdot, even if some of them would be good on their own, totaly cancels out the effectiveness of ALL OF THEM, making them just seem completely STUPID. The true joy of a good April's Fool Day joke isn't the perceived 'chortle-cleverness' of an obvious joke, but the reaction of those fooled into believing it. The Slashdot editors have robbed us of seeing any of this type of reaction post by stupidly linking to every semi-geek April Fool's Day joke on the web.
Next year how about one good April Fool's Day joke that is Slashdot specific and that might be somewhat ridiculous but also is somewhat in the realm of possibility, followed by a 'Quickie' post containing the good geeky April Fool's Day jokes from around the web on April 2nd?
Argh.
News for nerds. Unfunny jokes.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
To all those losers who have nothing to do with their time but whine -- STOP READING. Come back tomorrow, and we'll all be happy, sane Slashdotters. For today, though, lighten the hell up and enjoy yourself, huh?
I certainly am, and will continue to enjoy Mssr. Taco's fine sense (and subtle appreciation) of humor.
And slashdot is normally not a huge waste of time and actually posts stories that are well written, interesting, original, and that matter.
-N
Personally I would like to see this. The potential would be interesting. And I like Will.
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If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
...CmdrTaco announced today that: -Slashcode is being ported to Visual Basic. -OSDN has signed a four year endorsment deal with Microsoft. -The largest group of slashdotters ever assembled has ascended from their collective basements to protest the communist practices of one Linus Torvalds.
These just aren't funny. Next thing you know someone will be posting that George Bush Jr. was elected president, trashed the economy and started WWIII. Sheesh.
=brian
Wil Wheaton is going to be 8 of 22! That's awesome! Man, I just can't get enough of that wacky borg.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
Mmmm m m m me t t t too.
Watch my fucking show!
It's true I tell you! It's true...
so anyway, just testing a theory....
"It's comin' back around again..." -RATM
troll, troll, troll your goat
I can't wait to see Lowtax's update tomorrow, he's going to be rolling in tears.
'nuff said.
asinus sum et eo superbio
in omnibus veritas
April's Fools is dead and gone
You're the fool for carrying on
Three potatoes in the pot,
You're the fool and I am not.
really scary is it wat acually true. NOOOOOOOOO.......
A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
Red Hat To Change Focus
04012002 Posted: 7:58 AM EST (1258 GMT)
DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) -- The Washington Post reported late Friday that Durham-based Red Hat, distributer of the popular Linux operating system, has decided to change their business focus.
Sources close to the situation report that the company will concentrate on selling fine haberdashery, abandoning their efforts to sell Linux based software and services.
"As a company policy, we don't respond to rumors, but this one is true," Red Hat spokeswoman Melissa London told The Associated Press in response to the report.
An anonymous source told The Associated Press, "They just realized they could make more money selling red fedoras. I can't blame them really, the fedoras they make are very nice, and were making them a lot more money than Red Hat Database was."
Further details are expected later this week.
About Red Hat, Inc.
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I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Hasn't his acting career transitioned to gay porn yet?
Andy
I think what it really comes down to is eventually we'll be seeing options for him in polls aswell. Or perhaps they'll be some epic battle between the two of them for the generic slashdot icon position.
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier
Spacesuit will not be required.
and the sooner he gets back on our screens the better ;-)
What happened to "Rick Berman is Satan"!
Take some time (15-20 min) and read it. It's NOT sameless self promotion and buy all my crap. I laughed really hard about his experience with Hooter's waitress & "Yeah, funny like when you watch another guy get kicked in the nuts."
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but suddenly:
/. Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded.
Received from The Ferrengi at 15:34:49 PM S.D. 04/01/02:
Greetings HooMan! This is DaihmonTaco commanding the
We will exact tribute from you and then be on our way, otherwise we will turn your excuse for a ship into so many pieces of space junk.
Your fighters: 1 vs. theirs: 1259
Choose your action, Captain : (F)lee, (A)ttack, (S)urrender, (I)nfo ?
"His name was Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He was a man with a purpose."
in wellington :-(
Take one day, get off your nerd-chair and enjoy a little humor. All you that keep bitching about "I come here for real information" need to take a chill. It's 1 day out of the year - get over it.
Being a geek is all well and good, but it's not what makes the world go round. If you were looking for anything remotely usuable, practical, or relevent, you wouldnt be here anyway.
I really hope this is a joke. I respect Will Wheaton, but I loathe Wesley Crusher more than any other TV character that has ever existed (Cpat. Janeway comes in a close 2nd).
And to all of you whiners bitching about the AFD jokes: Get the hell over it! Relax and enjoy the laughs, you humorless luddites!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Archer: What is this boy doing on my bridge?
Wesley: But, sir, I've..
Archer: Shut up Wesley!
Wesley: Awww...somethings never change... *stomp*stomp*stomp*
Jeesh... I stopped watching ST a couple of years back... time traveler abilities??? Is this show mutating into The X-Men?
Yes, I know what day is today, so mod me clueless if it's only an april fools.
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Don't know if it exists anymore... but I do know that a lot of trekkies were not exactly happy about wesley. My guees is that wesley reminded them too much of themselves.. but it made me laugh everytime I saw Alt.entertainment.scifi.startrek.wesleycrusher.die .die.die
The Palestinians are not in Israel, nor are they citizens. They live under the rule of Yasser Arafat's "Interim Government", also known as the "Palestinian Authority". Under this system, the palistians have autonomy, but the truth is Yasser Arafat (or General Arafat as he calls himself) is running Gaza and the West Bank like a tin-pot dictator. Under Arafat, not only do they not have a vote, but they dont' even have the right to political speech unless it's under Yasser's direction.
At this point, there are three kinds of Palestinians (in order of their percent of population)
1) The kind that don't give a shit about any damn cause, and just want to have a life that doesn't include sending their kids to schools in flak jackets
2) Palestinians who think they are fighting some grand cause to reclaim lands they never actually had from a people who doesn't even want it, and think that they are justified in murdering civilians in the name of their cause
3) The Palestinians who go around convincing #2 that they "are fighting some grand cause...", while talking out of the other side of their face to the rest of the world about how much they want peace with Israel.
It's unbelieveable the kind of amazing announcements that get made on April 1 every year. Shocking that we see nothing of jet packs powered by cold fusion cells the size of an AA battery...
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The Palestinians are not in Israel, nor are they citizens.
Why not?
C//
I was a Wesley-basher from day one, and never felt a single pang of guilt. I wanted Wesley to die, die, die and die again, painfully. And when he did die by being transfixed with a spear in one episode, I was ecstatic until he was resurrected at the end. That character was a symbol of all that was wrong with TNG (and all subsequent spinoffs), and I naively hoped that his death would signify a shift in thinking in the Star Trek camp towards pablum-removal. That was not to be.
/. interview, I felt for him. He's a genuinely nice guy, very intelligent, and perhaps even a good actor. It's not his fault that all Star Treks after the original series suck the big one. It's the fault of the show's producers. And I'll never forgive them for it.
.38 out of the dresser drawer and have a lead sandwich.
After reading Wil's comments in his recent
Don't take this wrong, Wil, but although you seem to be a standup guy, I don't want to see you on Enterprise. The show sucks, just being more of the same. They had an opportunity to make a great show, an original show, one with grit and suspense and all the stuff that makes great sci-fi. For some reason, I felt there was actually a chance that they might pull it off. I should have known better. After three seemingly endless, monotonous, rehashed spinoff series, you'd think they would have figured out what they did wrong. Silly me.
As soon as I see Wesley Crusher's face on the screen, I'll know it's truly all over. If they have to resort to bringing back our "favorite" characters to keep the series afloat, then that's the signal that things never will actually change, and that we'll be in for another seven or so years of the same old Love Boat, non-action, non-suspense, non-story, non-plot, formulaic faux sci-fi that we've become well-acquainted with.
And if we see Q on the series, it'll be time to get daddy's
I'll put up with Wesley. But is there any word yet on dumping that Suck ass theme song?
I mean please! I have to turn off the sound when the show starts because that music sucks so much ass.
Goran
Carpe Scrotum - The only way to deal with your competition.
I would only support him coming back is to watch him die a horrible death.. While your at it time traavel and kill Worfs kid at the same time!
I hate those characaters! UGH!
Encryption: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to encrypt it...
WWJD
Wil Wheaton Just Died. (truly an American icon)
Do not listen to the lying provcatuer.
There are some Palestinians in Israel. Like the article said, they are there as a source of a cheap labor. Most Palestinians live in little strips of land controlled by the Israeli Defense Force. Supposedly the Palestinian Authority should control these areas, but Israel likes to attack the Palestinian Authority every few months.
I am into the copy and paste.
A dark and confused Wesley, undoing all of the good happy-go-lucky touchy-feely history of the Federation and replacing it with something akin to the world inhabited by Spock-With-A-Beard! Yes, I know that is not what is described, but I kinda like the idea. :-)
Seriously, as much as I disliked Wesley the character (until near the end, when he started getting into trouble), I really like Wil Wheaton the actor. Anyone who has a good enough sense of humor to take the piss out of themselves in that manner is OK in my book...
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
And I was enjoying Enterprise. I dont want to see that whining little crud on TV any more. blah.
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Uh, Wesly Crusher couldn't time travel. The 'Traveler' from 'Tau-Alpha-C' could. Did he teach Wes the trick when he helped rescue Bev from the static warp bubble? I must've missed an ep somewhere.
I always though the Traveler had Wes help becuase he had a bond with his mom that could be used to help find her.
I know this is an 4/1 joke along the lines of
"Will Weaton died today...",
but I'd still like to know why Will claims Wes can time travel.
my sig is small and flacid...like my IQ
Whenever they do try to script time travel into a Star Trek TV or movie script, it usually bombs out. Save for ST:TNG ep, The Traveler, that was ok, BUT was a bummer when Wheaton resigned his commission to study with The Traveler.
Well.
Lets see what happens with Enterprise and Wheaton.. I pray that they do a good job on it, for the way Enterprise is going they are in deep dip as it is.....
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
Major Underground Letter Campaign == Astro-Turf Fertilizer.
M@
Krispy Cream is people
...two things I hoped to never see as the core plot of another Star Trek Series Episode. Nothing against Wheaton, but stay in the future....please.
I can't wait till when we find out that this news is actually true, and the joke is really on us.
Anouncing this sort of thing on April 1st would be genious. Sure, most everyone would pass it off just a joke, but Star Trek is well known for bringing back characters from previous shows. TNG brought back Spock, Scotty, and even threw McCoy into the mix in the very first episode.
So in a few weeks, when this news is still circulating, I'll be there to say "Ha!"
I am farking cursed
This proves "Wesley" is not a real geek. Everybody knows it's 'fscking'.
The ep you missed took place in the last season and revealed that the reason Wes was able to help The Traveler was because Wes had the power to be a traveler himself.
Cool. Thanks. I knew I should'nt have burned my TV when they aired DS9.
Wrong, correct, no, yes.
Journey's End
And in Star Trek, anyone can time travel...
For those of us who despised the little bastard on STNG, here is the registration info from InterNIC:
Administrative Contact:
Wheaton, Wil wil@wilwheaton.net
2222 Foothill Blvd.
#E347
La Canada, CA 91011
US
310-201-6565
Really him? Who knows. The sad part is this address is pretty close to my house... Not that I've been crank calling him or anything.
hmmmm...
does the previous relationship between worf and wesley have any bearing on the outcome of the future klingon treaties?
(any of you trekies who know about the homo books that are out probably are about as disgusted as I am about it, but it's kinda funny.)
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...cause it could be all too real. It thought it was April Fool's, not Halloween.
Well, a huge thanks to /. for going along with this. I was able to get FARK on board, as well, and we all had a really good time with this.
I hope everyone takes this in good humor.
Lots of people sent really kind and sweet congratulatory messages, and I actually feel pretty badly for fooling such nice people. All the idiots who thought it was a really good idea to fill my inbox with "Wesley is gonna ruin Enterprise" crap should get a life, and direct any further comments to the nearest brick wall.
I think the greatest highlight of the day came when my mom called Anne, while I was at work.
The conversation went something like this:
Mom: Do you have something to tell me?
Anne: Uh, no.
Mom: Do you have some big news about Wil?
Anne: Oh, that. Uh, what day is today?
Mom: It's Monday!
Anne: Right. And the date is...?
Mom: It's April Fir-- OH! Damn you!
Heh. I guess my dad was all pissed off, stomping around my parent's house because I didn't tell them myself, and he "had to read it on Wil's $%@#!ing website!"
Yep, you're a weenie.
Well, Wesley is a weenie, but thanks to Wil, at least he's a cute weenie.
Now that he's what - thirty? - hopefully he will have weathered those raster-burns and keyboarding callouses well. Too bad he's straight. [sigh]
All the best, Wil. Now got get yourself an Emmy.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
The next generation was the best ever. The original was good and i obviously can't bad talk it because of the fact that it fathered the rest. Deep Space Nine was more of a space opera, Voyager was good until they guest starred the rock and then it was over. Enterprise is just horrible. No Star Trek theme song should ever have words and the Vulcan's sarcasm is so blatantly obvious. I mean, even Spock, who was only half vulcan didn't throw in any one liners or stupid remarks.
Star trek left its roots and has now turned commercial. There are no more interesting plot lines or stories. I hope there will eventually be another Star Trek good enough to rival TNG because Enterprise has completely and utterly failed
We seldom regret saying too little but often regret saying too much.
Why aren't they full fledged voting citizens?
Weren't there originally large numbers of Palestinians on the land?
Why aren't they citizens?
Honestly, I don't get it.
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I really hope this isn't April Fool's stuff. I love a well crafted time-travel yarn, and I've never understood the "I hate Wesley" sentiment. It was cool to see Wil redeam himself with his own internet presence in the face of the overwhelmingly stupid & cruel American public, and it would be REALLY cool to see this grow into an interesting new character on Enterprise.
Kid Crusher is a character with legacy and legend behind him. That sort of thing can carry a wonderful sort of weight. They say the best friends are those you went to school with. --This is because you saw old friends grow up; you know their history first hand. You shared it. Knowing that Wesley started out as most of us did, (as an uncool but earnest kid), and has grown through hard knocks and good teachers into a Jedi-equivalent is very, very cool.
I hope, if it happens, that they play it right. Could be very good!
-Fantastic Lad --The Deserving Underdog Always gets my Vote. Crass popularity is for Sheep and Cowards.
The Zionists wanted a homeland on Israel and they are well -- fascists so they forcibly removed the Palestinians who are the original inhabitants. Most of them now live on the little strips of Gaza, the West Bank and Ramallah. Alot of Palestinians also live in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon.
The only ones who can vote in Israel are the Jews, the arabs allowed there are second class citiziens.
I am into the copy and paste.
The only ones who can vote in Israel are the Jews...
Is this really true? I tried to search through their Constitution to see who could vote, but couldn't figure it out. Are you saying there are no voting Arabs in Israel?
Why doesn't the U.S. and other first world countries look at this situation skeptically? If what you are saying is true, do you realize that the average U.S. citizen is simply not aware of that?
The U.S. is a nation of many minority interests. We have asians, hispanics, africans and men of african ancestry, and a vast spectrum of expatriates from all over the world. If the truth is as you say, the belly of America would quiver if it understood. Franchise, the simple concept of having a voice in your government, is the foundation of America.
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What we have is monopoly of the reproduction of opinion in the hands of the media. Every is entitled to their opinion, but it does not really matter in the end because the media gives most people their opinions.
Even if you tell most people what I just told you, they would not believe me after listening to the media all these years. The media in America rarely if ever covers the deaths of Palestinians. In the early 90s for every Palestinian that killed an Israeli, the IDF killed 20 Palestinians! Yet in the early 90s you never would hear about that in any mainstream American newspaper. Now the ratio is 4-3 Palestinians for every Israeli, but I have yet to hear of any IDF massacre through CNN or Foxnews.
I am into the copy and paste.
Even if you tell most people what I just told you, they would not believe me after...
Don't take this wrong, but I'm not sure I believe you. How can I verify through independent and objective sources that only Jews can be citizens/vote in Israel? How can I verify through independent and objective sources what I suspect is true: that Palestinians have been nothing other than systematically interned?
In the _Wall Street Journal_ some pro-Israel group occasionally runs these full page pro-Israel ads, loudly espousing the status of Israel as the sole democracy in the Middle East. Well and good, I say. I'm all for democracy and economic success.
But why is it that Israel's opposition isn't doing more in the American media to discuss the 20:1 rule? The internments? The lack of ability to vote? The general pattern of disenfranchisment? These are not things that would sit well with the American people if the American people regarded them as true.
I'm genuinely confused and don't know what to believe. The Arab press itself waxes towards the blatantly delusional some of the time. I can't read that; who could? Allegations that the WTC was blown up by Israel itself? Come now. That's hysteria, not objectivity.
Will the _WSJ_ simply not sell ad space to a well-reasoned counterpoint to the current Israeli ads that it runs? Is there no way that the opposing interest groups can reasonably expect to deliver their message?
C//