Apparently the Klingon bat’leths were not a tip off :
The news team intended to show the logo for SEAL Team Six, the special ops team that ultimately killed the notorious chieftain of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. Instead, it accidentally used a fan-made logo for the Maquis , an anti-Cardassian rebel group that originally appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, reported fan site TrekMovie .com.
The newscaster, identified as Mick Locher, even commented on the emblem, pointing out that “they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out the mission. They don’t have the [FONT=arial]skull[/FONT] in their emblem for nothing.”
Locher didn’t seem to notice that the skull in question was from a Klingon and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, Klingon sword and the word “Maquis” (a French resistance guerrilla group that inspired the name), the site reported.
“…Star Trek’s Maquis is not scheduled to begin raiding for several hundred years.”
<snerk> I’d say “Time Lord humor.” but that’s another show.
I’ve been unable to reproduce the GIS that results in that image. That’s some nice misgoogling there.
mlees
May 12, 2011, 4:50pm
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I lol’d reading that in the article. Perfect deadpan delivery.
mlees
May 12, 2011, 4:52pm
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Was there possibly some kind of German/English/German translation problems going on there?
From the trekmovie link; “SEAL team trained on a replica compound and ran multiple scenarios to guarantee success. In short, we just Kobayashi Maru’d bin Laden”. Sooo… they trained on an unwinnable scenario? :dubious: