Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-4-2010

[andrewducker]

• How Psychopaths Choose Their Victims
  (tags: psychology psychopath victims)
• Colgate Patents Traditional Indian Tooth-cleaning Powder Despite It Being Used For Thousands Of Years
  (tags: patents intellectual_property teeth india)
• Newspaper apologies for claiming Captain Kirk was in command of Captain Picard's starship.
  (tags: funny startrek media newspapers)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer files for bankruptcy. Will finally be able to get back to making movies.
  (tags: movies business)
• Brain differences in people with "autism gene" revealed by MRI scan
  (tags: genetics autism brain psychology)
• Awesome versions of Dr Who - Simpsons Style
  (tags: simpsons DrWho art)
• Scientists answer some tough energy questions
  (tags: energy uk renewables nuclear fusion)

Comments

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

But...but...they still got it all wrong about the different versions of the Enterprise!

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Also, "NNC-1701"?

Oh God. Somebody shoot me, please.

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

I thought it was an ironic piece at first, a'la the Onion. If there's anything worse than getting my geekery wrong, it's when someone else corrects it and is even more wrong!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> Kirk's last ship was the Ambassador Class Enterprise-C.

Huh?

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Mistakes of this kind can provoke angry Youtube videos! Now if only I could find my clip-on combadge.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Also that bit about being given B while A was being fitted -- is that in Generations?

I trade in my last vestiges of normality here

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

NCC-1701. Originally commanded by Robert April, then Christopher Pike. Subsequently Captained by James Kirk for 5 years. Refitted after the end of its 5 year mission and commanded by Admiral Kirk during the events of Star Trek movies 1,2 & 3. Destroyed by Commander Kruge above the Genesis planet at the end of 3.
Constitution Class (or occasionally called Starship class)

NCC-1701-A. Originally USS Yorktown. Name changed and command transferred to James Kirk in recognition of his saving the planet from the weird whale loving space probe in Star Trek 4. Appeared in ST5 and 6, retired at the end of 6.
Constitution Class

NCC-1701-B. Commanded by Captain Harriman in ST-Generations (7). Various novels have depicted its voyages, but nothing official.
Excelsior Class

NCC-1701-C. Commanded by Rachel Garrett. Appeared in ST-TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". Lost at Narendra 3 to Romulan attackers.
Ambassador Class

NCC-1701-D. Present throughout Star Trek - The Next Generation. Destroyed at the end of ST-Generations by the Duras sisters Bird-of-Prey. Saucer section crashes on Veridian 3.
Galaxy Class

NCC-1701-E. Appeared in ST8-10. Heavily damaged but repaired following events of Nemesis. Apparently still in use for a long time as appeared in non-canon comic series that acted as a prequel for the new Star Trek movie.
Sovereign Class

NCC-1701-J. Appeared in Enterprise episode Azati Prime and 2005 Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar. Very little known, but ship is huge (claimed at 2 miles) and tipped to be a Universe class.

I can add the NX-01 and XCV-330 as well, but that'd be perhaps going too far.

Re: I trade in my last vestiges of normality here

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's pretty much what I thought (though without so much detail ;)

Kirk briefly took command on the B, I think?

Re: I trade in my last vestiges of normality here

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Nope, Harriman tried to offer him command before he went to make the deflector produce a quantum resonance burst, but Kirk told him to stay put and did the job himself (and got blown up/ absorbed into the Nexus).

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

You missed the addendum: "We're also sorry for any errors in this apology."

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Imagine I replied to all the people talking about the Enterprise and just said "trap sprung"

I like how the answer to many of the tough questions was basically "yeah we could do it right now. Like this *snaps fingers*. But we don't need to right now. Maybe we'll be able to in a bit." Short-termism in government sucks but is an inevitability a lot of the time

*strokes Long Now Foundation membership card; is smug and a middle-class do-nothing*

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

To clarify, I am referring to myself as a smug middle-class do-nothing. I wasn't being snide about Guardian readers generally or anything. Although I probably could be.