From Star Trek #76 (1995)
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
Sexy, Sexy Spock!!
See?
It wasn't just Kirk who got his shirt ripped open all the time!
From Star Trek #76 (1995)
From Star Trek #76 (1995)
Monday, October 26, 2015
Manic Monday Triple Overtime--Would You Trust Your Daughter With James T. Kirk?!?
And then there was that time that Kirk totally hit on Dr. McCoy's daughter on while on shore leave:
Smooth, Jim...smooth!
Oops!!
Don't gloat yet, Bones...you can't keep Jim Kirk down long when there are lovely ladies involved, no matter whose daughter it is!
And Kirk pulls out all of his charm for Joanna:
Cue the soft jazz and fade to black...
The elder McCoy does not approve!
"Man of the galaxy." "He's been around." Oh, Bones, just call him a man-whore, why don't you!
Bones also lets Jim know that after years of urging on the captain's horndog act, it's suddenly no longer amusing:
Leonard McCoy: total shore leave block!
Well, after a harrowing adventure...
Yes, you go on believing that, Bones. You go right on believing that...I think we all know better.
20 years later, Kirk discovers another illegitimate child...?
From Star Trek: Untold Voyages #3 (1998)
The elder McCoy does not approve!
Bones also lets Jim know that after years of urging on the captain's horndog act, it's suddenly no longer amusing:
Well, after a harrowing adventure...
20 years later, Kirk discovers another illegitimate child...?
From Star Trek: Untold Voyages #3 (1998)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
And Then There Was That Time That Cyclops Played Captain Kirk!!
You know, in the 1960s, folks sure didn't understand how computers work.
Or, at least, creators of pop fiction didn't.
If you believe Captain Kirk (several times), or the Logan's Run film, or any number of other stories, merely telling a computer an illogical thing, or presenting it with a contradiction, would cause the device to crash, and usually to physically explode.
I mean, that's would be pretty cool, right? Heaven knows there's any number of recalcitrant machines in my lifetime that I would have wanted to destroy just by saying, "Computer, this statement is a lie."
Of course, aside from ignorance, such fictions were a reaction to a fear of computers surpassing us, and humans becoming irrelevant. We had to convince ourselves that there were feats of reasons that computers couldn't adapt to, and that our love of illogic was a strength, not a weakness.
(Of course, by the 80s and 90s that shifted, and we realized that we couldn't actually out-think or out-logic a computer, so all our fiction shifted to A.I.s immediately trying to destroy us, and the only way to beat them was blowing the frak out of them.)
Even Cyclops gets into the act. Here, dressed in a Quicksilver uniform just because, he tries to keeps the Sentinels from destroying all of mutantkind:
Well, by gum, it works:
Normally I would give a "Well played, Scott Summers" here, congratulating him on getting the Sentinels to join the likes of Landru, Nomad, M5, Norman and all the androids, the Logan's Run computer, and gosh knows how many other machines.
But unfortunately...
Cyclops admits he was just winging it.
Of course, so was Kirk, usually.
Unfortunately, in this case, Scott merely inspired the Sentinels to mutate and come back to Earth with a plan to sterilize everyone--no more births, no more mutants!! D'oh!!
From now on, Scott, leave the "wrangle the computer with logic" gig to James Tiberius Kirk, OK?
From X-Men #59 (1969)
Or, at least, creators of pop fiction didn't.
If you believe Captain Kirk (several times), or the Logan's Run film, or any number of other stories, merely telling a computer an illogical thing, or presenting it with a contradiction, would cause the device to crash, and usually to physically explode.
I mean, that's would be pretty cool, right? Heaven knows there's any number of recalcitrant machines in my lifetime that I would have wanted to destroy just by saying, "Computer, this statement is a lie."
Of course, aside from ignorance, such fictions were a reaction to a fear of computers surpassing us, and humans becoming irrelevant. We had to convince ourselves that there were feats of reasons that computers couldn't adapt to, and that our love of illogic was a strength, not a weakness.
(Of course, by the 80s and 90s that shifted, and we realized that we couldn't actually out-think or out-logic a computer, so all our fiction shifted to A.I.s immediately trying to destroy us, and the only way to beat them was blowing the frak out of them.)
Even Cyclops gets into the act. Here, dressed in a Quicksilver uniform just because, he tries to keeps the Sentinels from destroying all of mutantkind:
But unfortunately...
Of course, so was Kirk, usually.
Unfortunately, in this case, Scott merely inspired the Sentinels to mutate and come back to Earth with a plan to sterilize everyone--no more births, no more mutants!! D'oh!!
From now on, Scott, leave the "wrangle the computer with logic" gig to James Tiberius Kirk, OK?
From X-Men #59 (1969)
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