Il mort di Spock 28 May 2009 Star trek as it should be done? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xga_wchTpW8&hl=en&fs=1] Hat tip to Susan Silberstein. Humor
Evolution Stein is right: Darwinism causes antisemitism 1 Apr 20084 Oct 2017 I have yet to see the film Expelled, because it hasn’t come to Australia yet, but I have become absolutely convinced that Ben Stein is correct. Darwinism causes antisemitism. I have therefore conveniently listed all the cases known of this below the fold. I’ll stick with those in which Jews… Read More
Humor Terry and John 1 Jan 2009 Congratulations to Sir Terence Pratchett, or SurPterry as we shall undoubtedly come to call him (although I’m tempted to doubt it as he is the last bloke I think would ever be lost for words). But overlooked in the reports is this guy, who gets an OBE: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOi_wxypeGc&hl=en&fs=1] He’s John… Read More
Why not? Star Trek was always good with the classics. The death of logic. But they skipped Khan’s best line: “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee; For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” Apparently Melville is still going strong in the 23rd century (and maybe Shakespeare as well, but I can’t remember those lines). I would hope the tradition is being upheld with the new movie, but somehow I doubt it.
If only Bill Shatner was able to sing that well. Oh dear. My ears are bleeding just from the thought of Shatner and Nimoy singing that final duet together.
PHILISTINES! They seemed to have a thing for Melville, though. Who can forget Captain Picard in First Contact misquoting lines from Moby Dick: “And he piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.” The funniest was in The Final Frontier” where Dr McCoy attributes: “All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by” to Melville only to be told by Spock it was John Masefield.