Captain Aggravated

If I remember correctly becoming cool required the use of a portajohn.

You’ve never heard of Seve Urkel. How…fortunate for you.

So the OG girls of Trek dared to be sexy? I’m enough of a leg and hip kind of guy to choose to buy that story.

Fun fact: Katherine Janeway didn’t attend Starfleet Academy; she was in ROTC at the Samantha Carter School of Character Introduction.

“Double dumb ass on you, and so forth.”

I haven’t watched any Star Trek since Enterprise. Are they worse at it now? It has been a long road getting form there to here.

Roddenberry was both a genuinely progressive guy and an extremely 20th century man. “In the future we’re going to cure disease and hunger and everyone of all races and creeds will work together there’s gonna be a black woman, an asian guy, a Russian and an alien with funny ears on the bridge all working as a team and the women will all wear wrist length gogo dresses and there’s gonna be an episode where the crew is utterly baffled at the very concept of racism. We’re gonna paint some actors with half of their faces white and half of their faces black and they’re gonna be really horrible to each other and when asked why they’re gonna say “They’re white on the left side and we’re white on the right side” and it’s gonna make racism sound really dumb.”

I struggle to have a problem with a guy whose message is “Systematic hatred is extremely bad and stupid, let’s look at sexy legs instead.”

Same people who couldn’t pronounce “affirmative action” without scare quotes and italics.

“It’s these “Affirmative Action” people…”

It was TNG that really established an ensemble cast formula; TOS was Kirk-Spock-McCoy and the rest. It took TNG a couple seasons before they got the idea of a true ensemble cast where everyone gets to star in some episodes. TOS wouldn’t have had more than one episode starring Reginald Barcklay with Geordi and Dianna in supporting roles, but TNG had at least two.

You hear people say “I really liked Windows Phone, the interface was great” but Microsoft has no game that isn’t “we’ve been the standard on PC for generations.” They have no wherewithal to make a mobile platform happen. They had the Windows CE devices since the 90’s that competed with Palm, but neither penetrated the way cell phones did where EVERYONE has one. Even though they beat both Apple and Google to the portable electronics market by at least a decade, Microsoft were totally followers in the space. Their strategy was “We are also here. You want to use us because we also make your desktop PC OS. It runs a fucked up version of Outlook, Word and Excel.” Which…didn’t work.

Apple played the fashion statement crowd with the iPhone, continuing with their momentum from the iPod and iMac lines.

Google went for the tech savvy crowd with slide out keyboards and their suite of search-based services like Google Maps.

Blackberry and Palm also ran.

I was proficient at T9 in a way that I just haven’t been able to build with an onscreen keyboard. I endnup typingblikenthis because I can’t feel where the space bar is, and having to go back and fix everything is a pain. So you either end up incomprehensible or you turn on autocorrect and end up typing like ducking shot.

No they didn’t, they died doing this wrong. They wouldn’t make a normal Droid pattern landscape keyboard phone. They always had to make vertical out-the-end keyboards that were too narrow for humans to type on.

T9 worked a hell of a lot better than whatever the dunce we have now. I could do that shit one handed not looking and still get a coherent message out. Now paying FULL attention to what I’m doing I’ll still say thigns loke this.