Why, thank you, pardner; that’s a’right neighborly of you. Nice to know that I haven’t totally worn out my welcome yet. Yeah, I’m just getting online; technology inspires fear and hatred in me, so I’ve put off getting a computer for as long as possible, no doubt to the serious detriment of my education and career.
Then one day there was a knock at the door, and when I answered, it turned out to be Bill Gates with an annoyed expression on his face. He angrily thrust a laptop into my hands and stormed off. Guess I was the last one.
I’d hate for anyone to think that I considered myself a “real Trekker,” though. I’ve seen the shows and the movies, and I’m naturally cranky and opinionated. But by no means do I know offhand, for example, which season “Charlie X” was first broadcast.
Sure, I fantasize about the graphic death of Wesley Crusher, but so do remote tribes in Borneo who have never even seen the show. I think it’s one of those Jungian archetypes.
Note this apochryphal (or, at least, wildly innaccurate) quote from The Great Bird of the Galaxy himself, Gene Roddenberry:
“Wuss-ley Crusher? I hate that little pecker character! The only reason I wrote him in in the first place was because that fucklipped smeghead Wil Wheaton claimed he was my love child with that Janice Rand bitch, whoever the hell she was in real life, I don’t give a damn, really, and that he DNA evidence to back it up. Well, I slept with all of the female characters of the old show, and most of the males, to, so I figgerred I would put him in for a bit part. Then, that cock tease fag-boy toy Berman wrote all sorts of shows about him. JESUS! Well, we finally got the real deal about the DNA (he’s Shatner’s, the pig!) and I had him written out. Unfortunately, I died, and never got to see it. The reception up here in the afterlife sucks…”
Damn it! I can’t find the site I pulled that from… shit, shit, shit…
“Why am I here? Because I was grading essays and they were making me sick. I have come for respite and any meds I can get.
Oh, and a cloned Mini-Viva to take over for me.”