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The Business of Star Trek
angkor writes "Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus." And that my friends, is why Nemesis didn't even have to be a really good movie.
And you thought live long and prosper only applied to Vulcans!
A life sized Beverly Crusher... Maybe.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
At least they found a new way to skill the red-shirt guy on the bridge.
Why would someone pay that kind of money for a big giant borg doll when Realdoll sells one that actually looks pleasent. If you need companionship due to your nerd induced ugliness and low social status, don't compound your unnattractiveness by screwing a giant borg man. Go buy a sexy lingerie doll and pretend its a real girl, its good practice for pretending you actually have a life.
--Nuintari
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Wow, a life sized LoB model? And here I was happy with my Borg Cube Christmas ornament! "We are the Borg, Enjoy your hollidays, Resistance is Futile!"
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather
because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
I wonder why they didnt use the RIAA method of calculating sales. I bet the 'actual' number would be around 300 trillion.
Lets see, you have to count lost sales as 'stolen revenue', so every time someone looks at an episode of star trek without watching commercials, lost revenue. Every utterance of a copywrighted line from any star trek, lost royalties...you get the idea...
Shut up...its funny to me, but Ive been up since the day before yesterday doing networking layouts...
Yeah, it was nice to see that the british accent is genetic, because obviously growing up in the dilithium mines of Remus didn't affect that in the least. What a good villian and great writing... for me to poop on.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
I'm sorry, which doll was it that we were talking about here? :^P
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Are you really that stupid? Of course pirate DVDs are hurting the industry! Have you seen the utter shit they've been putting out recently? If they had had the money lost to the pirates they could've produced some good quality movies instead of the garbage cast upon us. Mr. Deeds was a personal "FUCK YOU" to the movie pirates of America for stealing from the MPAA. You spend a few hours downloading that piece of crap and end up deleting it since it's such a waste of space.
Yeah, it was nice to see that the british accent is genetic
Actually, it is genetic. If you have two British parents, you also get the rules of cricket, all the Beatles' lyrics and an assortment of Monty Python quotes too. The sense of humour has to be learnt, tho'.
Seriously. If people are spending money on Locutus of Borg dummies (how much would a lifesize, vibrating 7 of 9 go for?), you know that they would buy a PCS phone that looks like a classic trek communicator. Paramount can't be so much above being greedy that they cannot have figured this one out.
Then again, maybe that would push the creation of the Church of Star Trek, and if you watch Futurama, you know what that means...
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Everyone knows the Borg are an evil, closed-source monopoly.
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
it's true...
having an Irish father and an English mother, I am genetically pre-disposed to blowing up my own car =)
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<wisper>it's only a movie</wisper>
some poor folk spend their money unwisely on entertainment, and other nonessentials
I'm guessing you posted from a computer, yes? Let's not cast stones here.
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
It's even funnier when you remember that Jean Luc Picard is supposed to be a friggin frog. So did England conquer France in the future or maybe the entire EU?
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - Gen George S Patton
If they had had the money lost to the pirates they could've produced some good quality movies instead of the garbage cast upon us.
The poor quality of movies has nothing to do with lacking money. In point of fact, it is a new DRM solution that the MPAA is experimenting with. It's already been proven that DRM solutions applied to the finished product do not work (I won't rehash the DeCSS fiasco, but suffice it to say that it didn't work for the MPAA). They've therefore shifted to applying their DRM solution to the screenplay. They're hoping that the screenplay encoding format (known in some artistic circles as the "filmmaking process") will prove too difficult for the pirates to crack.
And it *does* to be working. Had the original script of "Mr. Deeds" been made into a movie, there would have been rampant piracy. However, I have yet to see a single pirated copy of "Mr. Deeds." No other DRM technology has yet proven this successful. Like it or not, you should expect to see more of this technology in the future.
However, the MPAA cannot relax yet. Hackers are said to be hard at work on cracking the screenplay encoding format. It's rumored that a fully functional, Keanu Reeves simulation already exists, though most believe that it is incapable of encoding any line other than, "Whoah!"
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