Slashdot Mirror
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.
EXPENDABILITY
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back.
liqbase
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".
http://twitter.com/onion2k
Earth?
"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).
Where's the tribbles poster??? You can't have Star Trek humor if you don't mention the tribbles!
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
The Distro parodies didn't load for me
6 2abc91d20e7a2fe/index.html
Here's a working mirrordot link
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/3a7776fd00fb4320
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
Three pages of great parody, but I couldn't figure out the paraody of the ad page. :(
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"
www.eFax.com are spammers
'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).
www.eFax.com are spammers
The site came up for me and I saved one image, the only one I liked, then poof the site hit it's limit.
i rkpreviewmw9.jpg
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.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
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"
I made a quick 1280x1024 wallpaper of 4 a few days ago and since the site is /.'ed, someone might be interested.
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/15/trekfa9.png
"No, no, no, don't tug on that! You never know what it might be attached to."
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"
Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
But does Data run linux?
http://www.TheGamerNation.com/Forums
They could email and ask? When you can take small websites completely offline with the amount of traffic Slashdot gets, it's irresponsible to not give any warning or caching, especially when your excuse is that you just can't wait six hours for this "cool breaking story". Hands up everybody who just couldn't wait another six hours to see Star Trek posters?
Or, if you want the techie approach, something similar to robots.txt would be simple for high-traffic websites like Slashdot to respect.
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra!
"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.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel?
Cowboy Neal and Zonk at Slashdot.
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.
Eat like locusts, breed like rabbits, taste like chicken.
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.