I Just Found Out that it Was Just a Movie.

[Good Will Riker]

Here, I had been spending many hours reading up on every little detail, researching every blurry photo, memorizing the IMDB credits for Winona Ryder, staring at thousands of fan photos of how the Enterprise should look. Hell, I know more about the "Gabe cowl" than anyone else in my office. That's got to count for something, right?

Naturally, I was hoping that all of this work was going to pay off. In the very least, I should be promoted to some higher level of existence. Some new level of Utopia. Haven't I earned it?

Then I found out it was just a movie. What the fuck?

So, I'm going to spend 500 hours and two years getting ready for this thing. And then what? I go stand in line for several hours with a bunch of bald, fat guys (and the occasional girlfriend, complete with the "You owe me big time for this, asshole" expression on her face). The guy next to me in line is going to try to impress me with everything he knows about the movie, and I'm going to be like, "Dude, I know. I'm a Star Trek fan. We all know this shit. Take a shower." I will watch the movie for two hours. And then what? Go home and commit suicide? Wait for it to come out on DVD?

Shit, that's a lot of pressure. I don't even know the difference between HD DVD and Blu-Ray. I don't think I'm even qualified to wait for it to come out on DVD.

And even if I am, then what? I buy it on DVD? Watch it two or three times. Memorize the best lines. Quote them ad nauseum here. Is any of this going to get me laid?

I have been seriously misled. The last time I put this much work into anything, I got a law degree out of it. Or a divorce judgment.

So you're telling me that I'm not going to get anything other than the same movie experience that every other asshole is going to get, even the ones who never even logged onto this website? They'll probably enjoy it more than I will, because they will never know that Harlan Ellison got all pissed off about the Guardian of Forever. Nor will they care.

There should at least be something that I could put on my resume. Like a license or something. Maybe T'Bonz could administer some kind of test. And if we pass, we get a certificate. Something I could frame and put on my wall. Something that would make chicks want to get naked when they see it.

I don't know what I was thinking.

I saw everybody getting so excited. I figured I better get in line behind them, so I don't miss anything. Now, I'm not so sure.

I mean, I have a lot of movies on my shelf. "Invasion of the Blood Farmers," for example. That didn't really change my life.

I'm just trying to figure out how all of this is going to pay off.

So, does that mean Sonia isn't going to go out with me to see this movie when it comes out in the summer of 2009?

Oh, what a shocker! Oh, what a real bummer!

link - http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=46276

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

So, does that mean Sonia isn't going to go out with me to see this movie when it comes out in the summer of 2009?

Oh, what a shocker! Oh, what a real bummer!

link - http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=46276

This has to be one of the most random examples of thread hijacking I have ever seen.

Suddenly, I am on the edge of my seat about Sonia!!!

What's going to happen next!

 

[Kegek]

This has to be one of the most random examples of thread hijacking I have ever seen.

Give me some credit. I managed to derail it into a conversation about whether or not anteaters are a respectable niche interest, didn't I?

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

This has to be one of the most random examples of thread hijacking I have ever seen.

Give me some credit. I managed to derail it into a conversation about whether or not anteaters are a respectable niche interest, didn't I?

Good point. If you had just gone a little further and included a link to an entirely unrelated conversation in a totally different forum, I could have cut you a little slack. But you are an underachiever. Come back when you're ready to put some serious effort into it.

 

[Superman]

Here, I had been spending many hours reading up on every little detail, researching every blurry photo, memorizing the IMDB credits for Winona Ryder, staring at thousands of fan photos of how the Enterprise should look. Hell, I know more about the "Gabe cowl" than anyone else in my office. That's got to count for something, right?

Naturally, I was hoping that all of this work was going to pay off. In the very least, I should be promoted to some higher level of existence. Some new level of Utopia. Haven't I earned it?

Then I found out it was just a movie. What the fuck?

So, I'm going to spend 500 hours and two years getting ready for this thing. And then what? I go stand in line for several hours with a bunch of bald, fat guys (and the occasional girlfriend, complete with the "You owe me big time for this, asshole" expression on her face). The guy next to me in line is going to try to impress me with everything he knows about the movie, and I'm going to be like, "Dude, I know. I'm a Star Trek fan. We all know this shit. Take a shower." I will watch the movie for two hours. And then what? Go home and commit suicide? Wait for it to come out on DVD?

Shit, that's a lot of pressure. I don't even know the difference between HD DVD and Blu-Ray. I don't think I'm even qualified to wait for it to come out on DVD.

And even if I am, then what? I buy it on DVD? Watch it two or three times. Memorize the best lines. Quote them ad nauseum here. Is any of this going to get me laid?

I have been seriously misled. The last time I put this much work into anything, I got a law degree out of it. Or a divorce judgment.

So you're telling me that I'm not going to get anything other than the same movie experience that every other asshole is going to get, even the ones who never even logged onto this website? They'll probably enjoy it more than I will, because they will never know that Harlan Ellison got all pissed off about the Guardian of Forever. Nor will they care.

There should at least be something that I could put on my resume. Like a license or something. Maybe T'Bonz could administer some kind of test. And if we pass, we get a certificate. Something I could frame and put on my wall. Something that would make chicks want to get naked when they see it.

I don't know what I was thinking.

I saw everybody getting so excited. I figured I better get in line behind them, so I don't miss anything. Now, I'm not so sure.

I mean, I have a lot of movies on my shelf. "Invasion of the Blood Farmers," for example. That didn't really change my life.

I'm just trying to figure out how all of this is going to pay off.

Cogs, you magnificent motherfucker.

This is the best post ever.

Seriously.

Thank you.

\S/

 

[Tralah]

I'm just trying to figure out how all of this is going to pay off.

Sam, it won't pay off for us until you come on with a new avatar with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the hot tub instead of FatShat and Nimoy.

Wow, that type of stuff doesn't even turn me on normally.

 

[StarTrek1701]

Star Trek is my life! It has to be! It is more than a movie to me!

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Cogs, you magnificent motherfucker.

This is just begging to be a sig. What say you, Superman?

 

[Top41]

It's just a movie???

LIES!!!!!!!

Has vBulletin poisoned you somehow, Sam? Just a movie??? Next thing you're going to tell me is that you don't have a 500 page Kirk/Spock fanfiction novel ready to go for when the publishers finally discover your brilliance. :blush: Say it ain't so!!!!

 

[Superman]

Cogs, you magnificent motherfucker.

This is just begging to be a sig. What say you, Superman?

It's all yours.

\S/

 

[Good Will Riker]

So, does that mean Sonia isn't going to go out with me to see this movie when it comes out in the summer of 2009?

Oh, what a shocker! Oh, what a real bummer!

link - http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=46276

This has to be one of the most random examples of thread hijacking I have ever seen.

Suddenly, I am on the edge of my seat about Sonia!!!

What's going to happen next!

There is only "Do or do not. There is no try."

Some little green guy named Yoda or Kevin Smith said it once, but I just can't seem to remember which one it was right now..

 

[Good Will Riker]

And even if I am, then what? I buy it on DVD? Watch it two or three times. Memorize the best lines. Quote them ad nauseum here. Is any of this going to get me laid?

I have been asking this same question here, myself? Is any of this going to get me together with Sonia?

I have been seriously misled. The last time I put this much work into anything, I got a law degree out of it. Or a divorce judgment.

Yeah...right.

There should at least be something that I could put on my resume. Like a license or something. Maybe T'Bonz could administer some kind of test. And if we pass, we get a certificate. Something I could frame and put on my wall. Something that would make chicks want to get naked when they see it.

Don't I wish?

Really, I wish I could just invite Sonia over to my place so that she could help me unload some wood into the fireplace, and then when she sees that certificate hanging over my HDTV set, she strips down naked right there in front of me and we make hot, passionate love over my bearskin rug over glasses of champagne.

I'm just trying to figure out how all of this is going to pay off.

I believe that a man by the name of William Shatner figured that one a long time ago...I wonder what his secret is? Perhapes, he's not telling us and letting us in on it.

 

[M'Sharak]

Don't ever say that within earshot of the University of California, Irvine.

Okay...I have to ask as this East Coast girl has no idea what you are talking about. Not even if it somehow relates to college sports, which I do not follow (for example, Georgia/Georgia Tech are only BARELY on my radar).

What does U.C.- Irvine have to do with anteaters?

It's the university's official mascot.

I should know. I grewup in Irvine.

I remain unconvinced.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

I keep getting "Sonia" confused with that shadowy/imaginary chick that Kirk referred to while he was in the Nexus. You know, the one we had never heard of before and wondered if she was even real.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Okay...I have to ask as this East Coast girl has no idea what you are talking about. Not even if it somehow relates to college sports, which I do not follow (for example, Georgia/Georgia Tech are only BARELY on my radar).

What does U.C.- Irvine have to do with anteaters?

It's the university's official mascot.

I should know. I grewup in Irvine.

"Anteaters" isn't that bad...

....I remember my days at Penn State when I would visit the girls who lived in "Beaver Hall".

 

[Good Will Riker]

Samuel T. Cogley,

The "Sonja" in the new Underworld film (a pagan film which I happen to reject and denounce due to my Christian upbringing.) is portrayed by Rhona Mitra, so there's at least a consolation prize for all my fantasies.

Not to mention the "Red Sonja" film that came out back in 1985 starring Brigitte Nielsen. But unlike Ms. Nielsen, at least in my case, I know that the Sonia that I know has drapes that matches the curtains. :blush:

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

But unlike Ms. Nielsen, at least in my case, I know that the Sonia that I know has drapes that matches the curtains. :blush:

Spoken like a man with a good Christian upbringing. :thumbsup:

 

[PKTrekGirl]

*Gee....which off-topic topic do I want to post about? Anteaters...or some person named Sonia who I don't know about at all unless it happens to be Sonja Henie, which I doubt?

Humm...maybe I should wait until this thread goes even further off-topic into something else completely. Yeah! That's what I'll do!*

 

[Kegek]

we make hot, passionate love over my bearskin rug over glasses of champagne.

So you are ontop of a bearskin rug which is ontop of glasses of champagne? That's a rather tenuous balance.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Most random thread ever.