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The 7 Types Of Bad Bosses According To Star Trek

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 23 May, 2008 to the comment subset

The 7 Types Of Bad Bosses According To Star Trek (And How To Survive Them) Captain Jean-Luc Picard was far scarier than I remember him. He's your best pal, playing poker with you and listening to you whine about your holographic love life - until you piss him off, and then suddenly he's all shouty and mean. He's like your nice uncle who suddenly turns vicious. It actually startled me ... Read full entry

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The truth about Captain Kirk and his ladies

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 16 May, 2008 to the comment subset

The truth about Captain Kirk An analysis of all 79 episodes of Star Trek, The Original Series, shows Captain Kirk wasn't quite as lucky with the ladies as legend suggests. "Shore Leave" Another one from the past, Ruth, apparently from back in his Academy days or thereabouts. Doesn't seem that much really happened within the story itself, unless you count her showing up again at the end (17 episodes in ... Read full entry

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Star Trek and the curse of the red shirts

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 14 April, 2008 to the comment subset

Analytics According to Captain Kirk Your chances of working your way up the Star Trek command hierarchy were greatly enhanced if you did not wear a red shirt as part of your uniform. Recent analysis of crew mortality rates shows that 73 per cent of USS Enterprise crew members, from the original "five-year mission", died while wearing a red shirt. The Enterprise has a crew of 430 (startrek.com) in ... Read full entry

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Shatner livid at Star Trek snub

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 22 November, 2007 to the movies subset

Shatner livid at Star Trek snub. Despite not being offered a cameo role in the upcoming Star Trek movie, William Shatner aka Captain James T Kirk, still believes the movie will still prosper without his presence, according to an interview on US TV show Extra. Shatner told Extra that while he would have added to the film's appeal, he believes it will be successful without him. Leonard Nimoy ... Read full entry

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Links for 23 October 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset

Shift Magazine: on the subject of long running design websites, Shift Japan unveils its October 2007 edition, which features an interview with IdN magazine which in turn marks its 15th anniversary. Another milestone... Come to Web Directions Free, from anywhere in the world! By simply becoming a Web Directions affiliate you could earn free passage to the Web Directions North conference in Canada next year! I ... Read full entry

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Links for 30 July 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 July, 2007 to the links subset

Captain's log stardate 30 July 2007... ok that's not a real stardate... date, but who cares! Captain of the USS Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, has taken to blogging since Star Trek's "The Next Generation" was put into syndication, and I think I'm beginning to like the blog better than the TV show! Hilarious, I mean fascinating, Captain... The Prize Blog: I didn't realise just how many contests, especially blog contests, ... Read full entry

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