Don’t you wish that just once there could be a tv series where the chief executive of a space station is called Mayor or Abbess or even Baron rather than Commander?
assuming, of course, that he really exists
A correspondent asks:
Incidentally, why does Schwarzenegger do so many epist[e]mological films? We’ve got the 6th Day, Last Action Hero, Total Recall, The Running Man . . .
(and one I haven’t seen)
. . . . Kindergarten Cop.
from CNN: Hospital seeks Klingon speaker
“There are some cases where we’ve had mental health patients where this was all they would speak,” said the county’s purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway.
County officials said that obligates them to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter, putting the language of starship Enterprise officer Worf and other Klingon characters on a par with common languages such as Russian and Vietnamese, and less common tongues including Dari and Tongan.
Update: Or not.
Google gives 2910 results for “wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
2004 Oct 24: now “about 6,070”; a disturbing trend.
2006 May 10: now “about 76,100”
The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliché. I’ve just begun scratching the surface of the Prelinger Archive of ephemeral movies. (Link from two–four, who really doesn’t need to use such large type)
I hear Charlie Brown’s kite-eating tree is available
ARAGORN: You know what would have been really cool, though . . .
EOWYN: What?
ARAGORN: An army of flesh-eating trees to destroy the Orcs who are running away.
AUDIENCE: Yeah, that would have been cool.