The line must be drawn here!
Apropos of nothing, except a comment by Josh on a previous post:
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I'm Brendan Loy, a 26-year-old graduate of USC and Notre Dame now living and working in Knoxville, Tennessee. My wife Becky and I are brand-new parents of a beautiful baby girl, born on New Year's Eve.
I'm a big-time sports fan, a politics, media & law junkie, an astronomy buff, a weather nerd, an Apple aficionado, a Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter fanatic, and an all-around dork. My blog is best-known for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, but I blog about anything and everything that interests me.
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I'm a big-time sports fan, a politics, media & law junkie, an astronomy buff, a weather nerd, an Apple aficionado, a Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter fanatic, and an all-around dork. My blog is best-known for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, but I blog about anything and everything that interests me.
You can contact me at irishtrojan [at] gmail.com, or donate to my "tip jar" by clicking the link below:
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Star Trek is awesome. Picard for President!
Posted by: Casey | Apr 9, 2008 11:37:38 AM
Picard can't be President! He's French! (with a slight English accent...)
Posted by: David K. | Apr 9, 2008 1:28:55 PM
Picard is NOT French, he's British!
Posted by: Nadine | Apr 9, 2008 2:36:44 PM
From Wikipedia:
Jean-Luc Picard was born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in La Barre, France, in 2305
Unless Britain had conquered France by the 24th century, no the character was actually French :)
Posted by: David K. | Apr 9, 2008 2:50:16 PM
Why else do you think he has that outraaaaageous accent?
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Apr 9, 2008 3:06:31 PM
The single best scene in any Star Trek movie/tv show EVER!! Jean-Luc was the MAN!! Why can't they make a decent movie anymore?
Posted by: Julie | Apr 9, 2008 3:21:13 PM
Seriously, i was willing to give insurrection a pass since it was odd-numbered, but Nemesis really just plain stunk it up. The idea of using Romulans as a main villian? Great idea. But a bad Picard clone, a super giganto space ship, mutant Remans, and death to Data (but its ok they have a cheap copy)? I doubt we shall see a TNG movie ever again
Posted by: David K. | Apr 9, 2008 3:52:32 PM
On a somewhat unrelated note, I'm going to see Patrick Stewart (HE'S British, don't you know) in a production of Hamlet. In England. Yep, good stuff all 'round. This won't happen until November, but I am looking forward to it (the guy playing Doctor Who currently is also in this production).
Also, Stewart is on Broadway right now in Macbeth. So that could work too.
Posted by: B. Minich | Apr 9, 2008 4:34:54 PM
Silly David - in 2305, when Picard will be born, France is just another of the United States ... the 69th State, in 2089, right, Brendan ? You remember - with the merging of the US and the EU ...
So he's eligible ...
Posted by: Alasdair | Apr 9, 2008 5:57:12 PM
I'm still waiting for Alasdair to have a nuanced opinion on something...anything...
Brendan, I think you should have a weekly Picard quote/video clip.
Posted by: kcatnd | Apr 9, 2008 9:32:11 PM
There! Are! Four! Lights!
...gettin' mah geek on.
Posted by: Aaron | Apr 9, 2008 10:16:24 PM
I love the four lights episode...is that an allusion to Orwell? I can't remember the episode name; just that Capt. Jellico was there.
Posted by: kcatnd | Apr 9, 2008 10:26:03 PM
kcatnd - is that you being a comedienne, then ? (grin)
Out of curiosity - what would you consider to be a "nuanced opinion" ? So far, when someone says that he/she has a "nuanced opinion", he/she seems to be somewhere from mildly pretentious to the full John Kerry ...
Posted by: Alasdair | Apr 9, 2008 10:51:44 PM
You should find the scene where Janeway is imitating all of Starfleet's captains that she's met.
She does a pretty passable Jean Luc Picard.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie | Apr 10, 2008 9:31:46 AM
Darth,
Who is this "Janeway" person you speak of? I don't believe she exists, nor does any hypothetical crap Star Trek spinnoff she might allegedly be a character in.
Posted by: Aaron | Apr 10, 2008 11:46:01 AM
kc-- "Chain of Command."
Who's the uber-geek now? :-P
Posted by: josh | Apr 10, 2008 1:09:34 PM
Aaron,
It's called Star Trek: Voyager, and yes, it was mostly awful. Bringing in Seven of Nine put some spring in the scriptwriters step, but it was a case of too little, too late, more spandex please.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie | Apr 10, 2008 2:15:25 PM
By the end i'd say Voyager was better than DS9, DS9 had such promise and managed to hurl itself into crapitude by the end.
Posted by: David K. | Apr 10, 2008 3:54:24 PM
Hey ! I grew up (as much as I have done so) around Ferenghi !
Posted by: Alasdair | Apr 10, 2008 5:01:58 PM