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[Scooter]

[quoteost_uid0="Gatac"][color=#000000ost_uid0]But...nine top erotic fantasies involving a Brad Pitt doppelganger? I can hardly pin it down to a Top Fifty

Gatac[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Especially as you have the long-haired Brad Pitt from "Legends of the Fall", player Brad from "Oceans Eleven", crazy Brad from "12 Monkeys", young boy-toy Brad from "Thelma and Louise", street cred Brad from "Fight Club"...

Not that I pay attention or anything... [/colorost_uid0]

[Scooter]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]The Obsessive Trekker's Top Ten Ways in Which TOS Constitutes a Serious and Compelling Social Document Reflecting Profoundly on Our Culture and Our Times


10. As the first U.S. TV show to feature an interracial kiss, TOS was in the forefront of establishing the preeminence of sex in American society, to the exclusion of all other concerns

9. The prominent role played by Southern country doctor Leonard McCoy emphasized that even bumpkins can make their mark on space, and paved the way for later, highly nuanced Southern sci-fi characters like Trip Tucker

8. TOS's heterogeneous, multi-ethnic crew proved once and for all that it is possible for people of different kinds to get along and work together for the common good, as long as it's in a completely artificial, pie-in-the-sky sci-fi fantasy future where everybody gets along and works together

7. Captain Kirk's developing tummy made it possible for millions of impressionable to children to be comfortable in later life with their own McDonald's-induced spare tire

6. In proud defiance of the stodgy networks, Star Trek dared to broach the cutting edge of the hippie music scene, certain that this classic art form would endure into the 23rd century and beyond

5. Kirk taught millions of young men the valuable and useful skill of grabbing women by the shoulders and kissing without tongue

4. Thanks to "The Immunity Factor," it's a little easier for all of us to deal with the obsessive antimatter alter egos we all carry around inside

3. Both government and corporate executives have long known the value of having two subordinates express diametrically opposed viewpoints, then ignoring them both completely

2. I think it goes without saying that if we were transported back to Tombstone, Arizona and forced to participate in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, each of us would behave exactly as the officers of the Enterprise did


And the Obsessive Trekker's Number One Way in Which TOS Constitutes a Serious and Compelling Social Document Reflecting Profoundly on Our Culture and Our Times:

1. Kirk's stubborn adherence to his bigoted beliefs about Klingons, which he took to the grave in defiance of radical shifts in reality rendering his beliefs antiquated and dangerously out of touch, is recognized everywhere as the very essence of the American attitude toward the rest of the world[/colorost_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Okay, okay...

Top Ten Erotic Fantasies Involving Neelix

10.After getting incredible plastic-surgery to look like Brad Pitt, Neelix stars in "Troy:The Olympiad Version".
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1. While shooting sexy film scene with Brad Pittalike, a TV flat falls on him, and his face reverts back to Neelix. You then say, "ACK! THIS DUDE IS NEELIX!" and run away.


*stagecraft fact: It would have to be TV flat, as they are usually heavier than stage flats. Flats are peices of scenery which mimic walls...*

Top 10 Voyager Episodes Dropped Because of Controversy[/colorost_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]SCOOTER!

Deep apologies for the belated cookies! Their plane was diverted.

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They`re with butter, [/colorost_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[quoteost_uid0="Scooter"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Especially as you have the long-haired Brad Pitt from "Legends of the Fall", player Brad from "Oceans Eleven", crazy Brad from "12 Monkeys", young boy-toy Brad from "Thelma and Louise", street cred Brad from "Fight Club"...

Not that I pay attention or anything... [/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Oo, don`t forget the Achilles Brad in skimpy Greek warrior outfit from the "Troy" trailer, [/colorost_uid0]

[Scooter]

[quoteost_uid0="Nic Corelli"][color=#000000ost_uid0]SCOOTER!

Deep apologies for the belated cookies! Their plane was diverted.


They`re with butter, [/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]mmmmm, cookies and butter.....[/colorost_uid0]

[taya17]

[quoteost_uid0="Nic Corelli"][color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Scooter"]Especially as you have the long-haired Brad Pitt from "Legends of the Fall", player Brad from "Oceans Eleven", crazy Brad from "12 Monkeys", young boy-toy Brad from "Thelma and Louise", street cred Brad from "Fight Club"...

Not that I pay attention or anything... [/quoteost_uid0]
Oo, don`t forget the Achilles Brad in skimpy Greek warrior outfit from the "Troy" trailer, [/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Heh. You're SO going to love what's coming in the mail the next letter up.

Oh yes, next top 10:

[bost_uid0]Top Ten Voyager Episodes Dropped Because Of Controversy[/bost_uid0]

I'm not much good at this, so I'll pass.[/colorost_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ooo, a Brad Pitt fantasy that was deleted for NC17 rating, but in an pg13 form...

Brad Pitt+Orlando Bloom plus (I guess for the middle-agers) Sean Bean in Troy...I think that takes up at least
3guys x 3.5Bpeople x (what, about 140 minutes?) =
A LOT OF FANTASIES [/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Sean Bean? Man, if he survives this movie, I'm getting drunk just on principle.

Also not touching that next list with a twelve feet pole. Besides, I already did it for DS9.

Gatac

(If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch Ronin, Equilibrium and James Bond - Goldeneye. Sean Bean *always* gets shafted or killed.)[/colorost_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]So he's a named redshirt? The richest redshirt of them all? Hmm. Interesting.[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Indeed.

In Equilibrium, Bean plays a cop in a future where emotions and art are forbidden. He gets killed by his own partner in an abandoned church because he refuses to lay down a book of poems by William Butler Yeats. (OK, reaching for his weapon may have been a good secondary reason...)

In Ronin, he's one of the mercs who apparently doesn't know jack. (Leading to DeNiro's hilarious scene with "I just ambushed you with a cup of coffee.") He doesn't get killed, but gets booted out of the team and ridiculed.

In Goldeneye, he's 006, a secret agent gone bad. While I don't recall the film's ending, I'm pretty sure Bond creams him.

And those three are just from the top of my head.

*yank* (pulls thread back on topic)

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Heh... I really had the feeling he would play Hector, which would mean violent death. But no, he`ll play Odysseus... he won`t just survive, he`ll jump around the Greek islets for the next 10 years, [/colorost_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Top Ten Voyager Episodes Dropped Because Of Controversy

10. [iost_uid0]Voyager[/iost_uid0] comes to the aid of a staunch Rebellion, whose only weapon against the evil alien empire that holds them is a mysterious power known as the Force
9. Borg evolve into fluffy, bunny-like creatures; discovery that war, assimilation, mass genocide all just one big misunderstanding
8. In a shocking, surprising plot twist, Seven of Nine suffers from Pon' Farr
7. Entire episode devoted to Barclay stalking Counsellor Deanna Troi; concluding with Janeway and crew hearing outcome and reflecting on the injustice of restraining orders
6. Janeway makes reference long-ago Captain "Jonathon Archer," episode cancelled to maintain continuity
5. The ship's replicators malfunction, and lack of caffiene sends Janeway on a murderous rampage through the crewmembers; protested on the grounds that episode dwells only on the negetive aspects of coffee, failure to present fair and balanced viewpoint
4. Harry Kim discovers way to get [iost_uid0]Voyager[/iost_uid0] back to Earth, but it'll only work if everybody on Earth "sends us lots and lots of money. Write it down, kids: Paramount Studios, PO Box 7223,..."
3. "VoyagerLIVE!" special, in which voters affect the outcome of the episode, cancelled after Chakotay dumped in nitric acid for sixth time
2. Original series finale followed gradual realization of the hopelessness of ever getting back home, climaxing in entire crew's mass suicide
1. For good of entire Delta Quadrant, [iost_uid0]Voyager[/iost_uid0] is forced to horribly destroy entire planet of Trekkies asking for Jeri Ryan autographs

Next up:
Top Ten Big Surprises in Store for Kids in Harry Potter #6[/colorost_uid0]

[Standback]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]BTW, great list, Scooter... I especially liked, um, this half:

[quoteost_uid0]10. As the first U.S. TV show to feature an interracial kiss, TOS was in the forefront of establishing the preeminence of sex in American society, to the exclusion of all other concerns

8. TOS’s heterogeneous, multi-ethnic crew proved once and for all that it is possible for people of different kinds to get along and work together for the common good, as long as it’s in a completely artificial, pie-in-the-sky sci-fi fantasy future where everybody gets along and works together

3. Both government and corporate executives have long known the value of having two subordinates express diametrically opposed viewpoints, then ignoring them both completely

2. I think it goes without saying that if we were transported back to Tombstone, Arizona and forced to participate in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, each of us would behave exactly as the officers of the Enterprise did
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[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0](If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch Ronin, Equilibrium and James Bond - Goldeneye. Sean Bean *always* gets shafted or killed.)[/quoteost_uid0]

Except in the Sharpe series, where he's the main character. He takes more damage than Arnold and still manages to get promoted at the end.[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, yeah. But may I remind you who dies in Fellowship of the Ring? Boromir sure looks a lot like Sean Bean, doesn't he?

And, by contrast, how often have you seen Arnie die? I count once in End of Days, and he was up against the freakin' devil.

Don't deny it, Sean Bean gets typecast as tragic corpse quite a lot.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]New list:

Top Ten Actors Who Die On Star Trek And Then Come Back As Another Character.[/colorost_uid0]

[Scooter]

[quoteost_uid0="Gatac"][color=#000000ost_uid0]And, by contrast, how often have you seen Arnie die? I count once in End of Days, and he was up against the freakin' devil.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Um, doesn't the Terminator die, several times? He keeps having to come back as a different model...[/colorost_uid0]

[Scooter]

[quoteost_uid0="Standback"][color=#000000ost_uid0]BTW, great list, Scooter... I especially liked, um, this half: [/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Thanks -- great list to you too!
[quoteost_uid0]3. "VoyagerLIVE!" special, in which voters affect the outcome of the episode, cancelled after Chakotay dumped in nitric acid for sixth time
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[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Damn, Scooter, you got me there. Arnie dies in each and every one of the Terminator movies, but I if those movies show anything it's that he's no pushover. Besides, he was a killer robot every time, which paradoxically seems to make him weaker - I still stand by my claim that End of Days is the only time he died playing a human character. You might get more semantic and say that the Terminator units were destroyed, not killed.

Sean Bean, on the other hand? He simply bites it. Boromir, Alec, Partridge...and Spence, who probably wished he was dead instead of losing his job *that* way. The point is, he's a redshirt, sacrificed for the greater good of the plot. And none of those characters ever stood a chance, either. Boromir? Screwing with hobbits gets you no sympathy points. Alec? Man, he's up against James Bond. Hope your life insurance is paid up, buddy. Partridge? That guy actively sacrificed himself to prove a point, and let's face it, Christian Bale opened up a major can of kick-keister on pretty much everybody. He kills a dozen cops to save a dog! For one of the few guys who is actually supposed to feel something, Cleric Preston racks up a pretty impressive bodycount. And Spence - he was just plain stupid. Yeah, let's put two snipers directly opposite each other. Friendly fire ain't friendly, man.

*ahem* Concluding, I believe it's fair to say that Sean Bean is perhaps the most high-profile redshirt I've seen. And I hope that settles it, wouldn't want to clutter up this thread any more.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]