He Who Shall Not Be Named

OK, VBG suggested I start this topic since he got tired of me saying "didn't see it" for his reviews.

I'm guessing there will be a lot of odd-numbered movies and Enterprise episodes here.

Let me ask it a different way. Is there any episode of Trek where you would say "Man, that one sucked!"?

what I meant was are there any episodes you won't call a good one?

A latte

Is there an episode you don't say that about?

Occupation: Unknown?

I do not suffer from alcoholism. I actually rather enjoy it.

Today is Star Wars day. May the 4th be with you!

Will George Takei be at the wedding?

Now that bin Laden is taken care of, can we finally go back and do something about Biggie and Tupac?

Yeah! Take that VBG!

I will say that ENT didn't screw with the canon so much as what people *thought* was canon. Even ignoring that, however, you really did get a headache trying to sort out the differences between canon and assumed canon and trying to find a way to make it fit. Was Spock the first Vulcan in Starfleet? No, he was just the first one to graduate the Academy. Was Spock the first Human-Vulcan hybrid? No, just the first one that lived. You think the casual, non-anal retentive, Trek viewer would take the time for such a detailed analysis? Forget it.

We had a local convention here when ENT was in it's first season and already they had been screwing with the canon. One of the writers or producers was on stage and answered questions about canon. Already there were inconsistencies. You know what the answer was? Pips. Archer had pips like Picard had pips but Kirk did not. It's all because Zephram had met some TNG crew and Lily was on the ship. That's why canon changed. But of course we have no explanation why until that Borg episode, which actually set canon on the right path by explaining how 7 of 9's family heard about the Borg before the TNG crew did, but by then the series was already lost.

Along that line, however, ENT missed a golden opportunity with the Temporal Cold War (which seamed like a hot war to me). What is the one thing that long-term Trek fans want to know but were never given a canon explanation? I've said it before... There were no Eugenics Wars in the 1990s! What an opportunity for ENT to go back and explain why a lot of what was predicted to happen from the 1960s to now never happened! They didn't even address it.

Sorry, Enterprise was shit.

From Wikipedia:

"A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile in the media and is easily recognised. Celebrity status might be associated with certain professions and frequent appearances in the media. It can arise as a result of career planning but it can also arise by accident or as a result of infamy."

By that definition Osama bin Laden was a celebrity.

Q: What were Osama bin Laden's last words?

A: "Hold on a sec, someones at the door."

If Pakistan didn't know it's because they weren't looking very hard.

As I will never get tired of saying, These Are The Voyages is an example of why Enterprise had to die. The writers had an extra year to come up with a fitting ending, and this was the best they could do?

Yes, that really was the best they could do! This was what many of you were actively trying to save!

The official story is, according to Muslim funeral rites, the body has to be disposed of within 24 hours after death. A land burial wasn't possible because no country wanted him and any land site was sure to become a tourist attraction (something bin Laden didn't want but was probably unavoidable). Burial at sea was the only practical option. I'm also pretty sure the CIA has avenues of DNA examination that regular law enforcement does not.

Where there is a conspiracy, however, is why was he "hiding" in a mansion so close to the Pakistani capital? We knew he was most likely in Pakistan, but we thought he was in a cave or the mountains or something, not some mansion. WikiLeaks claims to have evidence we knew of this hiding place in '08.

He may have been kept tucked away for political purposes, but why now? The election is 18 months away, the primaries haven't even started yet, and this will not be on people's minds a year from now. Who are the GOP candidates? Palin? Trump? Laughable. Romney? Boring. Paul? Possibly, but a longshot for the nomination. Bachman? Too new. If there is a political strategy behind this it is a bad one.

Went to a friend's karaoke birthday party tonight. Sang "Mack The Knife" by Bobby Darin and somebody bought me a beer for that. One of the guests has also been in Playboy and I saw some nude pics of her on my friend's phone. Very nice. She looks better with the short hair she has now though. Unfortunately she is married. Then I sang U2's "With or Without You". Even though I'm about 25 years older than when that song came out I can still hit the high notes. Another cute girl who I would say was no older than 22 was taking photos of me, maybe because I was eating a rose someone got for the birthday girl. (Hey, I didn't have dinner.) She said she wants to Facebook friend me. Then it was my turn to sing again and in a surprise move I chose Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". That's right, I Rick-Rolled the whole bar! When the bar closed the birthday girl, now 27, said that she had two tallents - playing the saxophone and giving oral sex. (Let's see if that gets past the censors.) Then she stuck her tongue in my mouth. So I'm seeing her again next week.

So it was a pretty boring Monday.

Pepper - off the Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland album.

But seriously, all of these "updates" are people saying they don't know anything yet. There's no news there!

AE told me the same thing, and then he increased my warning level.

Didn't see it, but it sounds really out of place.

That would make Nemesis Star Trek 0. Fitting.

Seal Team 6 should have safeguarded his delivery to NYC so a firing squad of veteran NYPD officers could execute him.

It was an interesting episode, but doesn't it say that the Klingon religion is factually correct and all the others are not?

If a Muslim martyrs himself in a gay marriage state (or country) does he get 72 virgin men?