# German Newscast Confuses 'Star Trek' Terrorists With Navy SEALs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643 "2011-05-12T12:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/1 "2011-05-12T12:48:16Z")
Apparently the [Klingon bat’leths were not a tip off](http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/11/german-tv-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-bin-laden/): > [@](#): > > 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](http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/iraq/al-qaeda.htm#r_src=ramp) terrorist organization. Instead, it accidentally used a fan-made logo for the [Maquis](http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Maquis), an anti-Cardassian rebel group that originally appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, reported fan site [TrekMovie](http://trekmovie.com/2011/05/06/geman-tv-fail-star-treks-maquis-not-involved-in-bin-laden-mission/).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]](http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/11/german-tv-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-bin-laden/#) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/2 "2011-05-12T14:41:03Z")
“…Star Trek’s Maquis is not scheduled to begin raiding for several hundred years.” \ I’d say “Time Lord humor.” but that’s another show. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/3 "2011-05-12T15:26:44Z")
I’ve been unable to reproduce the GIS that results in that image. That’s some nice misgoogling there. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/4 "2011-05-12T16:50:37Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > “…Star Trek’s Maquis is not scheduled to begin raiding for several hundred years.” > > \ I’d say “Time Lord humor.” but that’s another show. I lol’d reading that in the article. Perfect deadpan delivery. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/5 "2011-05-12T16:52:01Z")
> [@Nanoda](#): > > I’ve been unable to reproduce the GIS that results in that image. That’s some nice misgoogling there. Was there possibly some kind of German/English/German translation problems going on there? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/6 "2011-05-14T10:53:53Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/german-newscast-confuses-star-trek-terrorists-with-navy-seals/581643/7 "2011-05-14T11:09:38Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > 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: They cheated.