I don't get the Captain Robau Love
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Tell me about it.
Boba's cool...but not $15,999 cool.
Boba's cool...but not $15,999 cool.
There are collectibles I'll pay mighty ducats for. Just not that one.
My Star Trek club had a similar in-joke running for an actor called "Frank Force". I was in the US, at a ST convention in January 1984, and I won some very rare ST III call sheets in their auction.
The call sheets declared that one of the very last new main actors introduced in the script was Frank Force playing "Nacluv". This seemed rather bizarre, till a friend of the production team mentioned it was an anagram - "Vulcan" spelled backwards.
Yes, it was Leonard Nimoy under an assumed name, to hide his participation as Spock till the last minute. (As in, Spock was the most "frank force" in the universe.)
Australia waited many months after the US to see ST III, giving us a lot of idle time to generate wacky Frank Force jokes. One penpal of mine, from Perth, arrived at Sydney airport for the film's gala premiere night, only to be collected by three complete strangers wearing large "Frank Force Fan Club" badges.
You'll notice that Nimoy also voices the Excelsior Elevator as "Frank Force", which got a huge cheer from us on opening night when the credits rolled.
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Why Robau?
Well...there's the fact that, staring down the captain of a giant super-ship--clearly capable of tearing the Kelvin to pieces in the spanse of a few minutes--His Awesomness, quite unshaken, demands, "Who is your captain?" (gestures to Nero, with a casual voice) "Is that him?"
When Ayel tries to talk him down, Robau just demands, in an angry tone, "What gives [Nero] the right--to attack a Federation vessel?"
Though he is a little curious--and slightly confused--about what Nero and the others want, he is not a coward, and neither is he a self-righteous "look at how I can act tough and talk big!"
That's...some of it, I suppose.
Well...there's the fact that, staring down the captain of a giant super-ship--clearly capable of tearing the Kelvin to pieces in the spanse of a few minutes--His Awesomness, quite unshaken, demands, "Who is your captain?" (gestures to Nero, with a casual voice) "Is that him?"
When Ayel tries to talk him down, Robau just demands, in an angry tone, "What gives [Nero] the right--to attack a Federation vessel?"
Though he is a little curious--and slightly confused--about what Nero and the others want, he is not a coward, and neither is he a self-righteous "look at how I can act tough and talk big!"
That's...some of it, I suppose.
One of the few times we ever see a Captain with balls (so to speak) was Captain Rachel Garrett. She died too, but she was really rampin' to fight Klingons who were armed with 22-yr advanced technology, right after fighting four Romulan Warbirds. If that ain't gusty, I dunno what is.
There seems to be a trend that if there's a badass non-central captain, he/she is bound to (gloriously) die. Clearly she took a page from the Book of Robau.
There seems to be a trend that if there's a badass non-central captain, he/she is bound to (gloriously) die. Clearly she took a page from the Book of Robau.
They put it in a clean-room-type coffin--on a pedestal, in their great temple, across the street from the Great Hall.
And then...
When his wound sealed itself over time...his eyes snapped open...he roze from the "embalment" coffin--pounding a hole through the sterilized transparent aluminum...and stepped out.
The Klingons trembled--and fell to their knees in worship!
Robau surveyed the land, his eye never wavering...and said,
"Where...is...Nero?"
"Oh, and Kahless sez hi."
Yeah, I was thinking about her, too. She is another captain who represented right out of the gate. Gotta give her props as a full fledged Master of the art of Robauism.
Garrett kicked ass too. The ballsiest Enterprise captain between Kirk and(arguably)Edward Jellico.
Had a nice ass too IIRC... heh
But Robau while he died... he was still badass. And that is why history must never forget the name... Robau.
But Robau while he died... he was still badass. And that is why history must never forget the name... Robau.
Robau Deniers(TM).
We should officially coin that phrase and make it stick. To label those who foolishly deny his badassness and coolness.
We should officially coin that phrase and make it stick. To label those who foolishly deny his badassness and coolness.
Robauniers?
I hereby officially question the Robau and his alleged badassery.
He was on screen for 5 minutes, didn't get anything what was happening and was killed pretty quickly.
Captain Terrell was more of a badass than Robau was. He had a mind so strong that he could resist those Ceti eels and kill himself before he could be forced to kill Kirk. That, ladies and gentlemen, is badass.
He was on screen for 5 minutes, didn't get anything what was happening and was killed pretty quickly.
Captain Terrell was more of a badass than Robau was. He had a mind so strong that he could resist those Ceti eels and kill himself before he could be forced to kill Kirk. That, ladies and gentlemen, is badass.
No doubt Terrel studied at the Robau school of badassery.
Robau would never have risked his ship by venturing into the Ceti Alpha system. Robau wouldn't be so terminally thick as to not recognize the place where Khan had been exiled.
He'd also notice the system was a planet short.
Looks more like Mr. Clean.
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