Thursday, May 4, 2006 |
21:12 - Mysterious alien species sighted
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G4, the video game network, is running this peculiar Trek 2.0 thing, where they show classic Star Trek episodes in a shrunk-down pane in the middle of the screen, surrounded by wide margins containing scrolling trivia, cliché counters, and (at the bottom) a chat-room style fan comment ticker where the show poses certain theme questions from time to time based on the episode's plot points and people logged in from all over the Internet post their responses in pseudo-real-time. It's pretty silly and a bit annoying, though at least the trivia is interesting on occasion.
Tonight they were playing the episode with Trelane, the proto-Q who toys with the Enterprise crew until he's called back inside by his ethereal parents. Early in the episode, the question on the chat board (and I don't know where in the plot it came from exactly) was: What primitive species prey upon themselves?
People were shouting out various responses that quickly started becoming tongue-in-cheek—hornets, and lawyers, and the like. I saw the question out of the corner of my eye as I made a sandwich, glanced at the responses, and yelled at the TV: "'Republicans'! C'mon, someone say 'Republicans'!"
And at that very instant, the screen scrolled, because one of the users had just said Republicans!
You can always tell the cool kids, because they're so very unpredictable.
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