Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride

July 5, 2011

Oh myyyy!

(Imagine that in your best George Takei impression.)

I thought I’d seen it all but I should have known better when talking about Star Trek. For every really bad piece of fanfic you stumble across online there are about ten thousand more you don’t find. For every horrible USS Enterprise “technical manual” on a bookstore shelf there are a hundred more on other shelves in other bookstores, and for every dreadful, badly-produced fanboy basement Star Trek video on youtube there are millions more wasting bandwidth all over the World Wide Web. So when I stumbled across another dreadful, badly-produced fanboy basement Star Trek video, it took something really special to make me stop and take notice.

Here it is.

Yes, that is George “Mr. Sulu” Takei and formerly-relevant actress Patty Duke in really bad Starfleet uniforms (just off enough to avoid a lawsuit) doing a Star Trek parody for Social Security. When did Sulu become so high-waisted?

I thought I’d seen it all but I should have known better when talking about Star Trek.

There are even more. If you can stand it, check out http://www.youtube.com/user/SocialSecurityOnline

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