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Ben Stiller on the Star Trek 30th Anniversay Celebration

Thirishar

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So I was channel surfing the other day and I saw that the Star Trek 30th Anniversay Celebration was on Biography, for some reason. I know it's like 12 years old now, but I watched it anyway. Ben Stiller was one of the guest speakers; apparently he's a huge star trek fan.

Anyway, he starts talking about how he grew up watching TOS and how big of a nerd he was and how much he loved the show etc., then he makes a comment that goes something like this: "I only watched the orignal Star Trek; I don't know anything about 'Deep Space 12' or 'My Generation' or whatever'..."

WTF was he thinking? This was supposed to be a tribute to all of Star Trek. Virtually the entire cast of all four series was in the audience and he just insulted 3/4ths of them! After he said that, it cut to a shot of Avery Brooks in the audience and he looked summarily ticked off! :lol:

Oh well. It just kind of bugged me and I wanted to share it with everyone.
 
So I was channel surfing the other day and I saw that the Star Trek 30th Anniversay Celebration was on Biography, for some reason. I know it's like 12 years old now, but I watched it anyway. Ben Stiller was one of the guest speakers; apparently he's a huge star trek fan.

Anyway, he starts talking about how he grew up watching TOS and how big of a nerd he was and how much he loved the show etc., then he makes a comment that goes something like this: "I only watched the orignal Star Trek; I don't know anything about 'Deep Space 12' or 'My Generation' or whatever'..."

WTF was he thinking? This was supposed to be a tribute to all of Star Trek. Virtually the entire cast of all four series was in the audience and he just insulted 3/4ths of them! After he said that, it cut to a shot of Avery Brooks in the audience and he looked summarily ticked off! :lol:

Oh well. It just kind of bugged me and I wanted to share it with everyone.

The guy's a comedian. If you'll notice, any Star Trek tribute on that kind of scale will get some sort of good natured roasting. Some of the best jokes at Trek's expense tends to come from its biggest fans. The Frasier cast riffing on Voyager, the Shatner roast, etc. etc, could only have been made by fanboys and Trekkies at heart.
 
You might be remembering it wrong...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaqxdO3XM4E (the joke in question is around the 1:40 mark)

No cut to Avery Brooks looked ticked off. (Well, 30 seconds later.. but at that moment he looks like he's just not getting a different joke.)

Hmm... I don't know, he looks kinda ticked off to me, lol.

When does he NOT look ticked off? Even when Sisko smiles, you half expect him to sucker punch you.

With that said, I'd love to try out "Star Trek: My Generation," especially if it The Who do the show's theme song.
 
You might be remembering it wrong...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaqxdO3XM4E (the joke in question is around the 1:40 mark)

No cut to Avery Brooks looked ticked off. (Well, 30 seconds later.. but at that moment he looks like he's just not getting a different joke.)

Hmm... I don't know, he looks kinda ticked off to me, lol.

When does he NOT look ticked off? Even when Sisko smiles, you half expect him to sucker punch you.

With that said, I'd love to try out "Star Trek: My Generation," especially if it The Who do the show's theme song.

But that would probably be Star Trek: CSI.
 
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