May 28 2008Ace Of Cakes Show Makes Star Trek Cake, Trekkie Rage (And Some Hilarity) Ensues
So those crazy fonadanters on the Food Network's Ace of Cakes recently made a Star Trek cake and posted pictures of it on Trekmovie.com. But some Trekkies weren't happy with the result.
6. sean - May 25, 2008 THIS IS A DISASTER I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY PUT SCOTTY IN THE NAVIGATOR'S POSITION I CAN'T BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE ARE SO CLUELESS ABOUT THE BASICS OF STAR TREK THIS IS A DISASTER
12. Sean - May 25, 2008
lol #6 has a point. Scotty and Uhura are not in the right spots and Chekov is nowhere to be found. Even before Chekov came onto the show Scotty didn't sit there.
18. Navigator NCC 2120 USS Entente - May 25, 2008
Actually Sean, Scotty DID sit at the Navigator's Station on the bridge at the end of the second pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" because Navigator Gary Mitchel was dead. There is a picture of it at http://www.trekcore.com. I tried to post the link to the picture but it did not work.
Finally, the voice of reason stepped in.
38. Gary Seven of Nine - May 26, 2008Sean:
"Have you ever kissed a girl??!?!?!?!?!"
It's an F-in cake. Turn-off your caps lock and and stop making trekkers look like such OCD losers.
Good burn with your lightsaber there, Gary Seven of Nine. Oh shit, lightsabers are from Star Wars and not Star Trek aren't they? God how embarrassing. Seriously though, I've always loved Star Trek -- especially the spaceship, Discovery One.
A couple more pictures of the cake after the jump. And for the love of God please don't email me about the Discovery One being the ship from 2001: A Space Odyssey, I know that.
Star Trek Cake Upsets Nerds [io9]
Thanks Shawn, I'll invite a few college chicks over and we can have a co-ed cake fight.
Reader Comments
1. bs angel - May 28, 2008 2:01 PM
Awesome cake (love that show!) and hilarious comments. LOL, ...
2. Jumpin_J - May 28, 2008 2:17 PM
Gary, you rule. William Shatner would agree. Get a life! It's a friggin TV show!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ihsSmJNsDX8
3. Rod - May 28, 2008 2:18 PM
I don't like Star Trek, so I'm immune to the nerd rage that would come from the cake being "incorrect." That being said, this cake is effing EPIC. Amazing work!
4. Snoodle - May 28, 2008 2:23 PM
Not a Trekker myself, but we get this same type of crazy in the Whovian community...*sigh*....
5. Snoodle - May 28, 2008 2:25 PM
Forgot to mention, nice cake btw! XD
6. nullCRC - May 28, 2008 2:28 PM
I want to see a Seven cake.
7. Amy - May 28, 2008 2:37 PM
Note how the "voice of reason" has a Trekkie-themed name himself.
Que creepy music.
8. Momboelitist - May 28, 2008 3:44 PM
Yea, Gary doesn't want us to think Trekkie's are nerdtastic basement dwellers but fails simply by posting on a star trek board.
How many girls have you "kissed" Gary? Your mom doesn't count.....unless you used your tongue. Of course then you'd have some serious problems way beyond star trek.
9. Sean - May 28, 2008 5:23 PM
Um, it was a joke! But thanks for the condescion anyway!
10. Shoes - May 28, 2008 6:17 PM
mmmI want to bite all the little fondant heads off. <3
11. Lulabelle - May 28, 2008 6:56 PM
I love you Shoes.
12. nullCRC - May 29, 2008 7:43 AM
@9. Sean - May 28, 2008 5:23 PM
"Um, it was a joke! But thanks for the condescion anyway!"
What the hell is "condescion"?
13. Oddity - May 29, 2008 8:14 AM
Condescion is a compound word with the following roots:
Conde = known "nickname" of Condoleezza Rice
Scion = meaning a descendent or heir
This might therefore lead one to conclude that a condescion is a descendent of the aforementioned Dr Condoleezza Rice.
However, as it is well known that the good Dr is in fact childless, condescions can only exist in an alternate or future reality.
Were a condescion to actually intrude into this reality, it could risk disrupting the space-time continuum.
14. guate6 - May 29, 2008 10:20 AM
This "Gary Seven of Nine" person IS a trekkie, and he clearly states it. He feels that the other people make trekkers look bad, so he tells them not to (ie telling them not to make him, being a trekker, look bad).
Hell I think the cake LOOKS great, but my main concern: does it TASTE great? That's the more important part of a cake. You can have a cake look amazing but taste terrible, and I would call that a loser cake (or baker).
15. laz - May 29, 2008 10:53 AM
the cakes not that amazing.
16. Narcissa - May 29, 2008 12:27 PM
I've been a giant Trekkie for years. The being said:
A. This is EPIC!
B. Seriously? Not the end of the world. On noes! They didn't build an engine room for Scotty to be on. How about where's Bones? He was on the bridge ALL THE FREAKING TIME instead of sickbay. Seriously. It's a cake, people need to chill and enjoy this.
I wonder how it tasted.
17. Rod - May 29, 2008 3:30 PM
Oddity, you're officially my hero.
Thanks for the laugh.
Love,
Rod
18. MMMM - May 30, 2008 1:38 PM
How did they make get all those details by dipping it in Fondant?
Where I come from the fondant is cheese and/or chocolate. When I dip stuff in them it never comes out like the picture that was posted.
I'm going to see if I can get a fandant pot like this guy has.
19. Oddity - May 31, 2008 8:43 AM
Dear MMMM,
I believe you may be thinking of Fondue not fondant.
Fondue is a where diners use forks to dip bits of food into a warm semi-liquid sauce. You can use cheese, chocolate, olive oil, beer (mmmm...beer) or any other form of yummy deliciousness for the sauce.
Fondant on the other hand is "a cream confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets." (thanks Wikipedia - you too are full of yummy deliciousness in the form of nutritious facts).
Hang on a minute...
Oddity Consumer Products (OCP) is pleased to announce the release of the much heralded Fondant Fondue Pot (TM, Patent Pending etc). Great for Trekkie Conventions, Warhammer 40K parties, or for those cold, quiet evenings at home in your apartment....
20. Alexis - June 9, 2008 6:36 AM
Wow. THIS IS A DISASTER. lawl. I'm a pretty big Trek fan AND I have OCD and that reaction still made me laugh.
21. gypsy - July 15, 2008 12:13 PM
for those who wondered how it tasted, probably gross. i made a fondant cake once, and although it looked AWESOME, it tasted nasty. it's kind of like eating paper or playdough (but not as salty).
22. vexhold - December 4, 2008 5:51 PM
Mmmmmmm... Playdough tastes and smells awesome!!
23. Frederikke - February 22, 2009 7:02 AM
Cool!
24. Charlene - May 3, 2009 11:49 AM
Fondant isn't there to eat. It's there to look good.
The person who thinks the only reason cake exists is to eat it is probably the kind of guy who thinks that wood only exists to burn it - so let's cut up the Mona Lisa to get warm. (Yeah, an exaggeration, but cake isn't meant only to be eaten. Heck, I don't even like to eat cake and I like decorated cakes just fine.)
25. pedantic baker - May 3, 2009 3:47 PM
truly, the fondant wasn't even meant to look good. It was originally a fairly air tight covering meant to keep the cake encased in it reasonably moist & fresh. a tradicitional spiced, fruited cake, wrapped with fondant, would be edible months, even years later. well, edible by 15th century standards. and of course, in that era, if it could be decorated to/with also, so much the better.
26. Robin - May 5, 2009 12:09 PM
I saw that episode of AoC, but I didn't realize it had created such a storm of nerd rage. I've watched (most of) Star Trek since I was a little kid and consider myself a fan, if not a hardcore Trekkie. Having the characters not all at their proper stations honestly doesn't bother me though. I mean, they're little cartoon-y fondant people. Their innate adorableness supercedes any errant placement.
27. Mackenzie - May 14, 2009 6:51 AM
I don't like star trek. I can KINDA see how it would upset ppl who are obsessed with it, but seriously. Not that big of a deal!
28. violintastic - May 19, 2009 8:27 PM
I love this discussion! Star trek, whether or not Trekkies kiss girls, horribly and ironically misspelled words, sarcasm, fondue, fondant, a cake history lesson... what more can this discussion bring? I agree with Robin, I watched most of the episodes with my family and think that the cuteness outweighs any wrong placement.
(By the way, I can't help but to condescend to say that condescension is spelled c-o-n-d-e-s-c-e-n-s-i-o-n.) How ironic!
29. Rah - May 21, 2009 2:39 AM
y'all just got trolled hardcore. preeeetty sure that first angry nerd comment wasn't meant to be real. gg
30. Drei - May 22, 2009 4:53 AM
I wonder where Spock and Uhura went. Aside from where no man has gone before. Boldly.
Making out in a Turbolift, probably. Or eaten.
31. Lua - May 24, 2009 1:49 PM
woooooooooooow! i luv the cake! I also luv startrek. Personaly, I dont think anythings wrong with it, so i suppose there are more hard core trekies than me. As long as Kirk doesnt have a peg leg, and Spock isnt an odiouse shade of fushia, Im good.
32. sarah - June 3, 2009 7:56 AM
You can't get more hard core trek then in my home. Well, a tad more. We've never been to a Con and have limited knowledge of the Klingon language. HOWEVER, my 2,4,5,6 YOs are third generation Trekies and have watched all of TOS,most of TNG, and will see the other series as we get them. They're THRILLED that BK and cereal boxes have ST toys! I have a huge collection of Star Trek things I collected as a child myself. Growing up my bedroom was papered from floor to ceiling with clippings, kites, posters, ect STAR TREK!
That said, I LOVE the cake. Sure, the artist could have done a little more research to be more technically accurate rather then merely artistic but I DO think they did a wonderful job. As for the subject of good cake is more important then aesthetically appealing cake, I disagree. But then I prefer the visual arts to the edible and am not much of a cake person (other then to look at, people can do AMAZING things with icing and fondant!)
Entertaining conversation.
33. Captain Cohen - June 16, 2009 7:53 AM
What about this pic from TNG's episode "Phantasms"? Troi as a cake..
http://www.geocities.com/Ktesh_kag/cellcake.gif
Incidentally we have the bottom layer of our wedding cake for 10 years ago .. it's covered in icing, sealed in a plastic container, covered in x layers of plastic film. We really ought to try it before my teeth depart and my dentures arrive.