Mr Sulu causes DDoS panic after posting link on Facebook Star Trek hero George Takei unleashed such a wave of interest after posting a link on his Facebook page – to a website which was selling a 'Takei T-shirt' – that the site's ISP assumed that the traffic was a DDoS attack and took the site down for several hours. The Star Trek star posted a link to a gay-pride T-shirt with a …
Star Trek: Spock's Brain (1968)
Sulu: Ship's Log, Lieutenant Sulu recording. I am holding the Enterprise in orbit about planet Sigma Draconis VII. Captain Kirk's hunch that Spock's brain is on this planet appears to be correct. Ensign Chekov remains on the surface to act as liaison between the Captain and the Enterprise.
With line like that what can you say?
"The shirts feature a range of puntastic gay-rights slogans playing on the name of the star, who played Hikaru Sulu, Captain of the USS Excelsior in the first Star Trek series and six Star Trek films."
No, Hikaru Sulu was navigator on the Enterprise in the first Star Trek series.
*sob* I can't believe I typed that correction...
Sulu was NOT Captain of the USS Excelsior in the first Star Trek series, he was the Chief Helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise..
I could not stop myself from typing that correction. I tried, I really tried, I just couldn't help myself.
Chief Helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.
.............reading that part of the article induced a catatonic state from which I have only just recovered. This is however, not the first time they have sinned so grievously. In the following article they were apparently unaware that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry played Nurse Chapel* in TOS. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/16/google_siri_will_be_called_majel/). According to them the good lady was, in practice, only well known for the voice of the ST computer. How did they let that through, are they unaware of the geek ratio here? There are certainly people posting here who can manage whole episodes by heart and some of them can probably speak Cardassian never mind Klingon - what were they thinking about?
*Or for that matter Deanna Troi's mother Lwaxana in STNG.
Only in one of the later films did he attain command rank, (The Undiscovered Country??)
As well as ST-TOS, he has picked up a lot of fans from appearing in TBBT.
"DOH!", because not knowing your Trek is like admitting you are cool.... err..... or something.
Did you say "Hikaru Sulu, Captain of the USS Excelsior in the first Star Trek series and six Star Trek films"? Did you really say that? Did you really really say that, on a website designed for geek eyeballs? He was Captain of the Excelsior in TOS? I think you meant to say Helmsman of the USS Enterprise. I think you did.
The Register writer Anna Leach unleashed such a wave of nerd-rage after posting a statement on theregister.co.uk – mistating that Hikaru Sulu was the Captain of the Excelsior in the Star Trek series rather than only in "Star Trek VI: The Captain Sulu Movie" – that the site's ISP assumed that the traffic was a DDoS attack and took the site down for several hours.
While I can understand the love of an old theatre. What I don't understand is why people can't put the same energy into things which would fix our respective countries.
1 Expose Globalist UN Agenda 21 ties to local, state, and federal offices and people, and NGO's
2. Hire bounty hunters for banksters
3. Fix Fukushima (dont need the UN for that!)
4. Expose poisons in our food, water. Gmo's, flouride, radioactivity, etc.
5 Remove Monarchy (UK) Remove DHS, and Restore Constitution (US)
6 Arrest the fed and all the oath breakers
I can think of a lot of things more important than a theatre in San Diego, which won't matter if Fukushima gets worse.
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2a) and female geeks
...(iii) [or possibly (iv)] in their early 50s.
BTW, this particular female's first real date, at age 13, was with a guy who invited her to a Star Trek convention. I wouldn't have gone out with him otherwise. But a free Trek convention, and a sold-out one at that? I said yes immediately. No, I hadn't yet grown out of hypocritical selfish-child mode.
I now do penance for that sin by confessing before the entire Reg readership...until I read this article, I thought Sulu's first name was "Mr."
Lash away,
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