Star Trek - did you know?

Re turning us into Borg, I think we would literally be under the jackboot:

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Sarkus said:
Bear in mind when the series were set: Thunderbirds was c.2065, and Star Trek 2265 - so c.100 and c.300 years from when they created. It's always easier to predict shorter times ahead.

They both suffered from computers the size of cabinets, where reprogramming was by moving wires around. But Trek did certainly go well past "science" and into "fantasy". Loved them both, though. Still watch them every now and then. :) Both have a certain charm that I enjoy.
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What amuses me today about Thunderbirds is the very 60s design of details like clocks on the wall.
 
exchemist said:
Er, you've lost me, I'm afraid
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Sorry, that joke may not be a pond crosser. In the US, the Borg was, for most of the 20th century, the dominant and iconic bathroom scale. When ST started up with the whole Borg narrative of an invasive and totalitarian machine culture, I could not help thinking of the scales and their somehow taking over. So, if we are turned into Borg, and the fascists keep their jackboots on when weighing themselves....

(retreats from room quietly)
 
TheVat said:
Sorry, that joke may not be a pond crosser. In the US, the Borg was, for most of the 20th century, the dominant and iconic bathroom scale. When ST started up with the whole Borg narrative of an invasive and totalitarian machine culture, I could not help thinking of the scales and their somehow taking over. So, if we are turned into Borg, and the fascists keep their jackboots on when weighing themselves....

(retreats from room quietly)
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Oh I see. I was wrestling with something involving an overweight Trump obsessively weighing himself, in jackboots. But he hasn't the figure for jackboots - he'd look even more ridiculous than he already does, with his mullet and tie dangling down to his gonads. Thanks for the explanation. To us, Borg is a tennis player.

Now Gabrielle Drake might look good in boots..........................but I digress.
 
TheVat said:
Sorry, that joke may not be a pond crosser. In the US, the Borg was, for most of the 20th century, the dominant and iconic bathroom scale. When ST started up with the whole Borg narrative of an invasive and totalitarian machine culture, I could not help thinking of the scales and their somehow taking over. So, if we are turned into Borg, and the fascists keep their jackboots on when weighing themselves....

(retreats from room quietly)
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This seems like something that Baudrillard would likely have had something of interest to say, if only he had gotten around to it. That said, he likely would have had more to say about the re-imagined and way more bad-ass version of Seven of Nine, sans catsuit, in Star Trek: Picard, if only he had not, well, died in 2007. This would preclude the likeness between the... well, it's more than just the name(?), so something being merely, or "merely", accidental or coincidental (it may well have intentionally been some sort of "in joke"or even metaphor for something, but who knows?).
 
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Jeri Ryan was just one of an earnest Borg nine.

And thusly I deliver possibly my lifetime worst pun. Which I will trust is seaworthy on its Atlantic crossing, unless McHale's Navy somehow got lost in a storm en route to Portsmouth.
 
TheVat said:
Jeri Ryan was just one of an earnest Borg nine.

And thusly I deliver possibly my lifetime worst pun. Which I will trust is seaworthy on its Atlantic crossing, unless McHale's Navy somehow got lost in a storm en route to Portsmouth.
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Yes we know Ernest. But who is the character with a dog's head in post 249?
 
exchemist said:
Yes we know Ernest. But who is the character with a dog's head in post 249?
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Bjorn Borg, the Borg (Star Trek) and a baby bjorn (which I now realize you can't really see when she's not turned around).

The dog is Mr Peanut Butter, a vapid Hollywood type and Diane's (Baby Bjorn Borg) husband at the time. They're from BoJack Horseman, which is actually a much better show than the image might suggest.
 
TheVat said:
Jeri Ryan was just one of an earnest Borg nine.

And thusly I deliver possibly my lifetime worst pun. Which I will trust is seaworthy on its Atlantic crossing, unless McHale's Navy somehow got lost in a storm en route to Portsmouth.
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Incidentally, he (Ernest) starred alongside William Shatner in the previously mentioned greatest Satanic-cult-in-a-desert film ever, The Devil's Rain. Shatner, apparently, was also in Star Trek.
 
I'm happy for Dave if he's found a new means of transBorgation.


parmalee said:
Incidentally, he (Ernest) starred alongside William Shatner in the previously mentioned greatest Satanic-cult-in-a-desert film ever, The Devil's Rain. Shatner, apparently, was also in Star Trek.
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"Greatest Satanic cult in a desert film" might be a pretty low bar, but I'm no film expert. (and have yet to see D'sR - on the list it goes) I think you might be right about Shatner appearing in Star Trek - was he the guy who had intermittent abdominal cramps whenever voicing strongly felt sentiments?
 
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