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Star Trek... Inspirational Posters?
Noryungi writes "Hot on the heels of Despair dot com, here comes... the Star Trek Inspirational Posters!. Imagine a mind-meld of Mr Spock, Despair's demotivational attitude and the Linux Distro Parodies, and you have one heck of a funny site. If you are a true Trekkie, don't click on the link, as this is certainly going to offend you..."
I am getting a couple put up at work on monday.
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Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back.
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It's beyond me while people always fall in love with such crap. Or is it a some kind of relax when you turn off your brain partially and watch Star Trek for example?
I'm having trouble parsing that sentence. You wouldn't happen to be from a primitive planet where they nonetheless speak broken English, would you?
I was going to make some TNG ones, but they'd all just be pictures of Wesley Crusher with the caption "Please shot this irritating brat".
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Earth?
Yes we call it Earth. Would you actually believe there's also something else than USA? Or you thought there are only native english speakers. Those with correct and those with broken english? LOL :)
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"Hot on the heels of Despair dot com ..."
You must be new here. Despair has been around quite a while.
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
I grew up watching Star Trek, so I retain an affinity for it to this day. Although I am not a hardcore Trekkie, I still watch the show when it is on TV. To understand why the original series is the way it is, you have to understand what was going on culturally in the US during the time it was being aired.
Even though it is 40 years old, over the top, campy, and hilariously non politically correct, I find it better than most of the crap on TV nowadays (or perhaps I am just too old).
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Why can't
Where's the tribbles poster??? You can't have Star Trek humor if you don't mention the tribbles!
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The Distro parodies didn't load for me
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Here's a working mirrordot link
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/3a7776fd00fb4320
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Grats all for taking this site offline...
Nope. That person spoke Klingon. The translator is just a little off.
Three pages of great parody, but I couldn't figure out the paraody of the ad page. :(
You could also thanks the editors for giving the link to a site that has a bandwidth limit that low. Slashdotting this one wasn't even funny. I bet Noryungi was the offended one.
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Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Obviously, the perfect poster would combine elements of both Star Trek and Hitchhiker's Guide:
Wesley's picture, with the caption:
"... the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass"
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'Coz CleverNickName misses out, but that's easily fixed, here's a Wesley Crusher inspirational poster I made. No offence, CleverNickName ;).
Oh no... it's the future.
Who needs posters? In memoriam James Doohan. The longest surviving "Red Shirt" on the USS Enterprise, his "Scotty" set the standard for generations of geeks and engineers. Working with the latest future technologies, often experimental, under a demanding boss for whom FTL travel, teleporters, galactic communications and more firepower than all of 20th Century Earth combined weren't enough to cakewalk through missions on any given week, Scotty's role model has influenced millions of 20th Century predecessors. His ingenuity, fortitude, and sense of humor while telling the boss that his demands are insane, but doable, even under excruciating time pressure floating around a newly discovered dimension, are an inspiration to us all. Mr. Doohan, in your new journey, go as boldly as you led us in all your merely astral journeys on our televisions, and in our imaginations.
Anyway, isn't this a 4chan fad? What's next, posting YTMND sites on Slashdot's front page?
And in the same vein, there's the RPG motivational posters that I submitted some days ago (and were rejected as not news for nerds).
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The site came up for me and I saved one image, the only one I liked, then poof the site hit it's limit.
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Here's the one I saved.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/6555/inspcaptk
Good luck finding the rest.
"If you are a true Trekkie, don't click on the link, as this is certainly going to offend you..."
Offend?
{raised eyebrow}
To be offended by an attempt at humor would not be logical.
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As a bit of a Star Trek fan myself, I have to say... It's trekker not trekie!
I was at least expecting a tribbles poster with something like "Just One is Never Enough"
It's only a matter of time before Slashdot brings the site's bandwidth to it knees. (Apparently, he's been having a little trouble paying the bandwidth bill before this article. Poor guy.)
Bandwidth quota reached and it's still the most recent story on slashdot. Get a real hosting company!
I made a quick 1280x1024 wallpaper of 4 a few days ago and since the site is /.'ed, someone might be interested.
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So they also speak broken English in the UK and Australia? Sounded fine to me, except for that "by crikey" kind of nonsense.
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A bit off-topic for Star Trek, but here is a politically incorrect (especially for PETA fans) inspirational poster for rats - "Teamwork - Share Victory. Share Defeat"
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But does Data run linux?
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I wouldn't consider: over the top, campy, and hilariously non politically correct, to be strikes against a show.
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These are hilarious. I like all the "tension" jokes and the "red shirt" jokes.
I actually saw these the other day with the StumbleUpon tool (Stumble with this . I've seen lots of neat things... the tool can be pretty addictive, sometimes.
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Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra!
Why does the article say I'll be offended?
It doesn't.
I'm not offended by these.
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"It's beyond me while people always fall in love with such crap. Or is it a some kind of relax when you turn off your brain partially and watch Star Trek for example?"
I never really enjoyed FireFly or Farscape. Is that because my tastes are 'superior' to everybody else's, or is it because everybody else is getting something I'm not? I'd love to go with the former, afterall it's more flattering. Chances are, though, it's the latter. My point is that I wouldn't go around elevating myself because I don't like a popular show.
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Anyhow, here's the mirror:
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/c99b53edbf927e1d
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I saw this a few days before slashdotting. So I have to ask: which episode did they get that first shot of Kirk looking super-smug? He had to have been in the middle of a sentence or something.
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over how awesome I am."
Also, someone just told me there's more than one page, and now I'll never know what's on them. damn tubes.
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as they had an article with a link to http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/motivator.php explaining how to do it.
As a matter of fact, a good deal of the FX rendering for Star Trek: Nemesis was done on boxes running Linux.
:)
And yes, there were "Linux is ready for the Enterprise" jokes made at the time.
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60's were strange. We had various bad news war coverage all the time, still civil rights issues, riots, etc. but when it came to space, it's like everything stopped. All the channels covered space shots, they would suspend regular programming and just follow it all day long. Just about everyone loved it. It was something to just feel good about. So when we got a modern (for then) space show, it...took off is the word. Even though it was cancelled quickly, and no one really knew why besides the producers. And yes, I think that was the real kick in the pants decade for tech advances, although we are getting a LOT more now, it just seemed and felt more important then. Now it is normal to hear about fantastic advances, back then it was still exciting, even if by modern standards they weren't all that special or innovative. You just *knew* neat stuff was coming, it wasn't there yet, but it would be soon.
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I don't think I want (or need) the explanation behind that one.
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It should read,
"See the universe, meet interesting people, and clean them to death."
After all, how did "Nomad" happen?
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If you are a true Trekkie, don't click on the link, as this is certainly going to offend you..."
Actually, if you are a true Trekkie, you would call yourself a Trekker, and spend several hundred hours defending this naming convention in various news groups, and in arguments with actors who may have once appeared on the damn show.
Trust me on this; I'm sort of an authority.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered! Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
The preceding comment is my own, and in no way construes an opinon of the Emperor of Mankind.
Looking at the "Sexual Tension" poster, all I hear is "Yo, Blair!"
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I suspect the 'humour' doesn't cross the pond that well. They all struck me as either oft repeated lame jokes or just statements of the obvious. No real humour and nothing that raised the remotest of a wry grin. Sorry guys, these were just pants.
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I enjoy both FarScape and FireFly, though I can't claim to have watched FireFly before Fox killed it. I guess I like FS and FF partly because they have a sense of humor about them. In both cases, the shipmates are rag-tag outlaws (or rag-tag good guys styling themselves as outlaws), so they have no particular moral high ground to cling to and no particular lofty idealism to project, so they have no reason be so insanely serious about themselves. (Contrast this to Captains Pickard, Sisko, and Hepburn^H^H^H^H^HJaneway and their Prime Directive speeches.)
I suppose I also like the overall character design: FireFly: all Human, except for River. FarScape: Only one Human, most others only vaguely Human-like. A pint-sized noble-in-exile who farts helium? A killer priestess who gets off on sunlight? (Add to this the fact that none of them could understand each other except for bug that helps them understand each other. In the very first episode, Crichton wanders onto the bridge of Moiya and hears what is actually being said - no two characters are speaking the same language.)
Both shows are rather more 'quirky' than Star Trek when it's trying to be serious and dramatic. I suppose that's why I enjoy them.
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