Nerd Fight - 2nd Thread

by Drew... on Jul 18, 2008 1:03 PM EDT

Ok, so over on today's race thread some of us got a little worked up over Star Trek (both the original series and Next Generation). John and I left off debating the merits of two series classics - City on the Edge of Forever (starring a very frisky Joan Collins) and Space Seed (starring a very orange Riccardo Montelban).

I'll agree with John that COEF had an intriguing plot, but SS had perhaps the greatest television fight in history. As evidence I present the following

Kirk fights Khan (pro wrestling style!) (via SciFiDude42)

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KKKKKKKKKKhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

by lyne on Jul 18, 2008 1:39 PM EDT 0 recs

Add a few BAMS

And you’ve got Batman.

Gotta love ST. Hey, doesn’t every ship have Anesthesia Gas ready to pump into the ship? Gotta plan for the eventual Mutiny or Boarding. :)

by johnw on Jul 18, 2008 1:40 PM EDT 0 recs

I mean really

all Kirk was missing was a Glass case holding a mace that said “Break in the event of Khan.”

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

by Drew... on Jul 18, 2008 11:01 PM EDT up 0 recs

And yet they can't manage a simple fuse

Stick on the kettle, toaster and TV and bam goes the whole ship.

by Monty. on Jul 19, 2008 6:32 PM EDT up 0 recs

I gotta side with City on the Edge of Forever...

... I mean that thing had the total anti-Leave It To Beaver ending, such a poignant downer, how can you not call it the greatest episode ever… as a stand alone.

... Space Seed is an OK episode, but is notable really because it spawned the greatest Star Trek movie to date: Wrath of Khan, which I can quote, entirely, from memory.

... and the best fight in Star Trek: Kirk vs. Gorn

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 1:51 PM EDT 0 recs

Chris, you are a big man for publicly acknowledging Drew as your brother.

I can see your life hasn’t always been easy and it’s terrific to see that you have made a life for yourself despite what Ican only assume has been a childhood with many,many difficult moments.

by Jens on Jul 18, 2008 1:51 PM EDT 0 recs

For the record

he’s not my brother. Pete is. Actually, I’ve never met Drew.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 18, 2008 5:53 PM EDT up 0 recs

"Nobody here but me and the moron twins"

“We’re not twins”

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

by Drew... on Jul 18, 2008 10:58 PM EDT up 0 recs

There is also...

... the forgotten episode from the third season of the TOS…

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 2:03 PM EDT 0 recs

OH! A Foreign Object!!

I thought for sure Kirk was going to hit Ricardo Montalban over the head with a chair.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 18, 2008 2:27 PM EDT 0 recs

McMahon, You pencil-necked geek!

Ahh, the old days of wrestling. Back before McMahon jr. found the juice. Andre, Haystacks Calhoun, the good old days…

by johnw on Jul 18, 2008 2:30 PM EDT up 0 recs

Ok... kiss your free time goodbye...

http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/index.php

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 2:57 PM EDT up 0 recs

[struggling...

not to click… must… resist…]

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 18, 2008 5:52 PM EDT up 0 recs

It has everything...

Finishing moves, Favorite moves, notable feuds, title and career history… it will make you remember things like Sgt. Slaughter vs. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. The DDT…

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 6:33 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oh

I shouldn’t have done that.

"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."

by Chris... on Jul 18, 2008 7:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

you call that a fight

this is a (cat) fight

by lyne on Jul 18, 2008 3:47 PM EDT 0 recs

Holy God...

... did Joan Collins not realize that Linda Evans was wearing football pads under that blue shirt? Did you see those shoulders?

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 4:01 PM EDT up 0 recs

Holy god...

someone took the time to put Dynasty on Youtube?

by Jens on Jul 18, 2008 4:03 PM EDT up 0 recs

!!!!

by Sui Juris on Jul 18, 2008 10:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

You know... I've been wondering all day...

... why my feed was all jerky this morning, why YouTube wasn’t loading very fast. Turns out, when I took my laptop home last night, I forgot that I reset my network settings so when I came back to work, I was using the production bandwidth, not the backup T1 I setup exclusively for the Giro (well, and in case the production one goes down so everyone else can get their baseball scores and do work and stuff.) So I was sucking their bandwidth all morning watching the tour.

So… uh… sorry everyone I work with.

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 3:56 PM EDT 0 recs

"not the backup T1 . . . "

oh, fuck off.

by Sui Juris on Jul 18, 2008 10:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

Membership has it's priviledges...

... as does running the network. That said… having a full chunk ‘o T1 doesn’t make C.TV run any better :)

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 10:18 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oh... and... previews of JJ Abrams new Trek Movie posters...

... at entertainment weekly...

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 4:14 PM EDT 0 recs

Speaking of nerds

Has everyone seen the Watchmen trailer? I really fear this movie will suck, but as bad a RR has made me feel, this has made me feel equally, if not more so, as good. I’ve already watched it 5 times in a row.

Watchmen Trailer

by zegnotronic on Jul 18, 2008 4:52 PM EDT 0 recs

I thought the trailer wasn't going to be released until...

... oh… never mind… Batman IS out now isn’t it.

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 5:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

well we sure outed him

by lyne on Jul 18, 2008 5:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oh my god...

... that thing behind me? That’s my ass… and it has a “SOLD” sign on it now because that trailer OWNS IT!

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 8:05 PM EDT up 0 recs

its so funny

when we review this great series, and you think “how can we had seen this”, so bad representation (the fight is ridiculous, that twist weapon too, exactly the same measure of both side…lol)

I never seen Star Treck, but McGuyver in Portugal, when i had my 15 years old (7 ago), we all fanatics of that serie. I just saw a episode last week, and i had this feeling.

Esquadrão Classe A (i don’t know the name in english), is the same .

by semprenaroda on Jul 18, 2008 10:15 PM EDT 0 recs

That's "The A-Team" Buddy...

But “Esquadrão Classe A” certainly has more panache…

They’re the A-Team (You know they’re soldiers of fortune)
They’re the A-Team (Helping People in Need)
You can pretend that you’re Hannibal, Murdoch or Face
or even BA Baracus, you know each one is an Ace
Each is sold separately with rifle and gear
When trouble’s around, you know the A-Team’s here!

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 10:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

The two best things (of many) about the A-Team

The ‘Fix-it Music” that usually took hold around the 42’ mark of the episode. This is where the A-Team would be locked up in some seemingly innocent storage locker, shed, possibly an old cave, where you’d think they had nothing to work with. But there’d always be some long lengths of pipe, hoses, accelerants of various kinds, and sometimes if they were lucky so old dynamite. Creation of weapons begins.

Then, around 51’ the “Fight Music” begins, were they implement their homemade flamthrowers/rocket-launchers/RPGs against the bad guys and wipe them out, all without shedding a drop of blood. Lots of concussions though.

My favorite episode had them making bazookas and defeating the villains by peppering them with cabbages. The people they saved? Migrant farm workers of course (genuine episode).

I sometimes miss high school.

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

by Drew... on Jul 18, 2008 11:07 PM EDT up 0 recs

Donald P. belisarius Productions

A-Team
Airwolf
Tales of the Golden Monkey
Magnum P.I.

That man should, by all rights, be my God.

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 11:11 PM EDT up 0 recs

Since the statute of limitations has run out

I would like to announce to the world that I am responsible for a scratch in one of the Magnum, P.I. Ferraris. We moved to Hawaii when it was still being filmed, and when we went to pick up our car off the boat, it was parked next to three of the Ferarris to be used to filming. I was in awe, touched it too much, and ended up scratching it with a button or something from my Osh Kosh B’Goshes.

There. Confessional over.

by Sui Juris on Jul 18, 2008 11:15 PM EDT up 0 recs

Wow

That is sublime. You scratched Magnum’s Ferrari. Higgins is going to kick your ass.

by Jimbo... on Jul 19, 2008 12:25 AM EDT up 0 recs

Sui Juris said "touched it too much" tee hee hee hee

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Jul 20, 2008 5:59 AM EDT up 0 recs

Dude

you forgot Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica

by Jimbo... on Jul 18, 2008 11:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

Quantum Leap wasn't really ever on my "Need to watch list"...

... and I’m currently in a love-hate with the current version of Battlestar… God help me I went to the “Limited Engagement Performance of Music From Battlestar Galactica by Bear McCreary” at some club in Hollywood a couple months ago… it was borderline as bad as the one and only Star Trek convention I ever went to back in the late 90s.

I still have the captain’s pips I bought there in my leather jacket.

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 18, 2008 11:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

BSG is fracking wonderful

really. I’ve very little patience for retreads, but this show is great.

And however painful that Bear McCreary show was, you’ve only need read his blog to be amazed at how much is put into the music in that show. Mr. Gaetta’s Lament? Holy shit that was great.

by Sui Juris on Jul 18, 2008 11:27 PM EDT up 0 recs

The music for the show is fantastic...

... but that concert was trash. For all the work they do to put the music together with something like six guys, it’s a shame they couldn’t design the sound in that club to save their lives. All you could hear was a guitar and drums. In between each song, I had to yell to fix the sound.. eventually I just had to give up and leave. I was, rather dissappointed.

But the show does frakin’ rock.

Ricco stole my marbles.

by crashdan on Jul 19, 2008 12:33 AM EDT up 0 recs