Jun 18 2009Chart: Why Star Trek Is So Cool Right Now
This is a cake chart explaining why the Star Trek franchise is so fashionably hip right now. Although I guess it's more specifically referring to the new movie, which, SPOILER ALERT: I got kicked out of. Twice.
Top 10 reasons why Star Trek is suddenly cool--plus the chart that proves it! [scifiwire] (click this for longer explanations of each reason)
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Reader Comments
1. Zojin - June 18, 2009 11:23 AM
STAR TREK FTW! :D
PS: I LOVE YOU LIZ =D
2. Uncle Eccoli - June 18, 2009 11:23 AM
It may have been good, but it wasn't Star Trek.
3. chaz - June 18, 2009 11:23 AM
first
4. FDSY - June 18, 2009 11:26 AM
I've always wanted to be a Captain of my very own pie chart
5. mike hunt - June 18, 2009 11:31 AM
sex trek - the next penetration
6. Quenkathes - June 18, 2009 11:33 AM
'cause there is Jar Jar Binks...
'cause George Lucas & Spielberg probably having a l8-life crisis...
'cause we are watching lots of shit and just forgot what sci-fi or "quality" really means, even the average things seem to us they are "good & cool"...
'cause a generation is growing with twilight, heroes, Spider-Man 3...
'cause there is Jar Jar Binks!!!
FRACK!!!!
God Bless 70's & 80's
7. Mystake - June 18, 2009 11:39 AM
They should do one on why Star Wars is so cool with the Death Star as the pie chart.
STAR WARS KICKS STAR TREKS A$$
8. Daisy - June 18, 2009 11:40 AM
FCUKING FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell it's a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back down where Max and Baja feed bubblegum to a guard dog at the local scrap yard then build a spaceship using an old chair and a circuit board that Max had a recurring dream about. Baja explains to the local school bully that "Elephantitis is when something gets bloated and ugly like your ASS".
9. NastyBedazzler - June 18, 2009 11:49 AM
My opinion (which is important) is that the original Star Wars stomps the Star Trek franchise.
Although the new Star Trek movie was... wait for it... out of this world!
10. STOMPY - June 18, 2009 11:53 AM
@10
Star Trek rules..... wait for it........ my nuts in your mouth!
11. Trekker - June 18, 2009 12:04 PM
Where's Shatner!!!!!!!
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com
12. Val - June 18, 2009 12:05 PM
Star Trek is hot right now because liking geeky things is hot. Yeah, the movie was really well-done and managed to pay homage to the campiness of the original show while at the same time carving a path for itself... Joss Whedon did a smashup job of explaining away all the other movies so that he could move forward without the fanboys of the world screeching about it. But let's be real... Star Trek is so popular because Zachary Quinto is the hottest Spock anybody ever saw. He can give me the ol' Vulcan neck-pinch any day of the week.
13. Ubu7 - June 18, 2009 12:16 PM
George Lucas needs to DIE so cooler, better versions of stories in the Star Wars universe can be made. George Lucas, thanks for giving us Star Wars. Now stop ruining it! F\_/cking die already!
Honestly, his fat daughter is dressed as a twi'lek. Making her the only fat, ugly twi'lek EVER.
HAN SHOT FIRST.
Peace, b!tches.
14. Daisy - June 18, 2009 12:16 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max mistakes cake for pie in math class and uses this error to prove Fermat's last theorem.
15. kreebilicus - June 18, 2009 12:20 PM
star trek = not kewl ever
star trek = not kewl now
that's why geeks love it and everybody else pretends to.
@13 agree, but it don't make it kewl
16. Ollie Williams - June 18, 2009 12:24 PM
@16
Not cool to say kewl = ever
17. Pew³ - June 18, 2009 12:33 PM
Questionable.
18. Bewb Kool? - June 18, 2009 1:48 PM
@17
What about the word bewb?
19. Breakup Makeup - June 18, 2009 2:05 PM
A chart comparison of why star trek is cooler than star wars would be interesting.
http://www.BreakupMakeup.com
20. doctor who? - June 18, 2009 3:24 PM
This speaks truths.... many truths.... Truths that if uttered in any other way would make dinosaurs become aroused and attack the GW
21. che-che - June 18, 2009 6:58 PM
obama? why cant i just enjoy stupid pointless shit without obama showing his damn sausage face here. dude is so overrated! and not logical at all.
22. everybody is thinking it - June 18, 2009 8:37 PM
val & kreebilicus - you are asshats. Joss Whedon wasn't even involved. And if you're going to say you did that on purpose you're even bigger asshats. You are right about Quinto, however.
@17 - word.
che-che - how do you "overrate" someone whose awesomeness knows no bounds. Ha! Get used to it. Most people LIKE a president they're not ashamed of.
23. GLADIATOR - June 18, 2009 8:53 PM
The only star trek show that I liked was the one from the 70's
All subsequent versions sucked!
Ok ... the one with Pickard wasn't half bad either ....
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24. led panel - June 18, 2009 9:40 PM
Coo...ll !
25. Val - June 18, 2009 11:46 PM
awwwwww I'm a douche. JJ Abrams. I should go shoot myself in the face
26. J. - June 19, 2009 2:17 AM
I agree with 2and 6.
the new sucks. all the others before where masterpieces comparing to the new one. if I want colors and flashy lights, or pretty guys and girls woth so much make up, who are abviously stupid, cheap and dumb, I go to a disco but not to a star trek movie...
27. Darth - June 19, 2009 5:44 PM
Do we think that Star Trek is cool? Dunno,there're many other things more cooler.
28. fake id - September 4, 2009 4:57 AM
star treks never really appealed to me but you feel like you have to watch the films because everyone else does and raves about it. When I see them i always end up disappointed.