Skippy is such a nerd
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: August 13, 2007 3:00 PM, by PZ Myers
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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: August 13, 2007 3:00 PM, by PZ Myers
What else can you conclude from this video?
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Jim, Edith Keeler must die.
Posted by: Spock | August 13, 2007 3:12 PM
That was totally AWESOME!!!!
OK, phew! flashback's over, mostly, sorry.
A perfect blend of two completely different (or maybe not so) genres.
Posted by: rob | August 13, 2007 3:20 PM
This is every gay trekkies wet dream.
Posted by: Steve_C | August 13, 2007 3:37 PM
But have we done "Classic Trek sings Knights of the Round Table" yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnyT0_BjxA
Posted by: mothworm | August 13, 2007 3:37 PM
Um, speaking of Star Trek and "The Time Warp"....
Posted by: Skemono | August 13, 2007 3:55 PM
What else can you conclude from this video?
That some trekkers have WAY too much free time on their hands...?
Posted by: dinogami | August 13, 2007 4:13 PM
some trekkers have WAY too much free time on their hands...
Oh, come on. I doubt it took much more time and effort to do this than to, say, play a round of golf every weekend for three months. They don't necessarily have any more free time than anyone else, they just expend it . . . differently. For which I am duly grateful.
Posted by: tceisele | August 13, 2007 4:33 PM
That poor Wil Wheaton continues to get no respect?
Posted by: Mary Mactavish | August 13, 2007 4:35 PM
Really, you need to check out Star Trek + Nine Inch Nails + Closer on YouTube.
Posted by: Davis | August 13, 2007 4:52 PM
Never thought about it before, but the technobabble in Trek really reminds me of RHPS--
DR SCOTT: This sonic transducer - it is, I suppose,some kind of audio-vibratory, physiomolecular transport device....
BRAD: You mean...
DR. SCOTT: Yes Brad. It's something we ourselves have been working on. But it seems our friend here has found a way of perfecting it. A device which is capable of breaking down solid matter and then projecting it through space, and - who knows - perhaps even time itself!
JANET: You mean he's gonna send us to another planet?
FRANK-N-FURTER: Planet. Schmanet. Janet!
Come to think of it, I'd pay a lot to see Picard in a bustier and fishnets.
Posted by: frau im mond | August 13, 2007 4:58 PM
Ron Moore eats Gene Rodenberries for breakfast.
Posted by: inkadu | August 13, 2007 5:05 PM
actually, having started programming back in basic in 60's, i really consider myself more of a geek than nerd...
anyway, i didn't make it...i just found it.
Posted by: skippy | August 13, 2007 5:37 PM
Fantastic find, Skippy!
Posted by: Paguroidea | August 13, 2007 7:01 PM
I saw this stuffed octopus and immediately thought of you ( http://www.squishable.com/pc/squish_octopus_15/Big_Animals/Big+Squishable+Octopus ). Likewise, when I see stuffed yous I immediately think of octopi.
Posted by: Deebs | August 13, 2007 7:01 PM
Very cool...and I like that it included no "Enterprise" clips. 'Cause I never watched that series. Also, could've used more Spock.
Posted by: Angie | August 13, 2007 7:05 PM
To paraphrase Triumph the Insult Dog
...."Who was watching his pet tarantula and/or snake while he was making this video?"
hhhmmmm???
Posted by: Steverino | August 13, 2007 7:30 PM
That was priceless!
Posted by: minusRusty | August 13, 2007 7:39 PM
This is every gay trekkies wet dream.
I know that Star trek (original series) is pretty much a gay icon, but when did Rocky Horror become one?
Posted by: Graculus | August 13, 2007 7:56 PM
Thanks, skippy!
You made me laugh, no small thing after the day I just had.
You rock!
Posted by: The Uppity Atheist | August 13, 2007 8:25 PM
And THANK YOU, Davis, for totally ruining that NIN song, not to mention helping besmirch Mr. Spock's character.
I am now going to delete it from my library, since I will never again be able to listen to it without remembering that video.
*opens new bottle of gin and crawls inside*
Posted by: The Uppity Atheist | August 13, 2007 8:44 PM
i wouldn't. but he'd play a MEAN dr scott. (it's a pitty scotty's dead)
Posted by: arachnophilia | August 13, 2007 9:05 PM
ok, off the subject of star trek but on the subject of nin mashups...
here's a great mash up of nin's closer w/the beatles' come together that works wonderfully.
Posted by: skippy | August 13, 2007 9:09 PM
I know that Star trek (original series) is pretty much a gay icon, but when did Rocky Horror become one?
Right about the time Richard O'Brian said, "I know, a campy musical about a Transvestite!"
Posted by: Keith | August 13, 2007 9:13 PM
Goodness gracious sakes alive and a half PLUS!! I haven't heard that song in a coon-age.
At the late nite. . .double feature. . .picture show. . :)
Posted by: jeffox backtrollin' | August 13, 2007 9:48 PM
And I thought it was weird at Balzac's Coffee Shop to hear Johnny Cash covering a Nine Inch Nails song.
Posted by: Monado | August 13, 2007 10:36 PM
I'm not sure what's more nerdy, that someone put that video together, or that I enjoyed it! ;)
Posted by: Richard R | August 13, 2007 10:38 PM
I just had a geekgasm all over my laptop.
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | August 13, 2007 10:57 PM
star trek + rocky horror = nin?
does everyone like the same garbage i do?
Posted by: arachnophilia | August 14, 2007 12:22 AM
Star Trek meets Monty Python! More singing, more dancing!
Posted by: NelC | August 15, 2007 8:23 AM
That the falling prices of consumer video editing equipment can lead to very odd results?
Posted by: Keith Douglas | August 15, 2007 6:58 PM