Blue Warp Nacelles?

[gimpy117]

thank you good sir I feel much better now...

 

[26138]

Don't turn off the lamp, you wouldn't want Carl to have to choke some bitches, would you?

 

[cooleddie74]

"It's like...it's like I can SEE the chronitons and time changin', yo!!"

 

[Nick Ryder]

By the way, where DID Carl Spock originate?

 

[cooleddie74]

By the way, where DID Carl Spock originate?

WAAAAAAY back in a TOS forums Caption Contest with a picture from "The Way to Eden."

 

[M'Sharak]

By the way, where DID Carl Spock originate?

WAAAAAAY back in a TOS forums Caption Contest with a picture from "The Way to Eden."

This is an avatar made from what I think was the original Carl Spock image:

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And why is his name Carl?

 

[M'Sharak]

Because the first caption to give him a name had it as "Carl Spock", and it stuck. If you're looking for deeper meaning than that, there isn't any. It just is, same as Grignak is Grignak's name and Vomit is Vomit's name and Running Spock is... well, okay, the why of that one is pretty obvious, but a good gag is the really the only object in a caption contest.

 

[Nick Ryder]

So its not based on some movie character or something, just a random thing huh?

 

[M'Sharak]

So its not based on some movie character or something... ?

None that I'm aware of.

 

[Search4]

I've actually read most (all?) of this, and i keep thinking we need to see the 2010 Sombreros of the Line calendar. Any takers?

(Still haven't seen Deep Sombrero 9 yet).

WELL, you killed that one. Spectacular!

 

[gimpy117]

don't even need to photoshop this drug trip.
cordozene...TOS' version of PCP

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

"Goddamn, that Cordrazine is freaky shit!"

-Lenny McCoy

 

[cooleddie74]

He's named Carl because THAT'S his name, bro.

Don't go harshing our buzzes, baby.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Because the first caption to give him a name had it as "Carl Spock", and it stuck.

If memory serves, it was a joke on the line from "This Side of Paradise" where Spock tells Leila Kalomi that she "couldn't pronounce" his other name. I think the joke in the caption thread was that his name was really Carl, and he just said it was unpronounceable because he was too embarrassed to admit the truth.

And thus a legend was born.

 

[M'Sharak]

Because the first caption to give him a name had it as "Carl Spock", and it stuck.

If memory serves, it was a joke on the line from "This Side of Paradise" where Spock tells Leila Kalomi that she "couldn't pronounce" his other name. I think the joke in the caption thread was that his name was really Carl, and he just said it was unpronounceable because he was too embarrassed to admit the truth.

And thus a legend was born.

I couldn't recall the specifics, but that sounds right. I was thinking also that Shatmandu was the one who came up with it.

 

[Chrisisall]

M'Sharak, where did you get that awesome avi?????

 

[M'Sharak]

M'Sharak, where did you get that awesome avi?????

Screencapped from the promo/preview for the movie BluRay/DVD which was shown at Comic-Con -- cropped and fiddled a bit. Looks even better in motion, though; watch the promo via the link in this thread. More about it here at TrekMovie.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Yo, baby...this Blue Warp Nacelles thread is, like, the groovy BOMB."

 

[Garth Rockett]

Because the first caption to give him a name had it as "Carl Spock", and it stuck.

If memory serves, it was a joke on the line from "This Side of Paradise" where Spock tells Leila Kalomi that she "couldn't pronounce" his other name. I think the joke in the caption thread was that his name was really Carl, and he just said it was unpronounceable because he was too embarrassed to admit the truth.

And thus a legend was born.

I couldn't recall the specifics, but that sounds right. I was thinking also that Shatmandu was the one who came up with it.

Yeah, I think it was Shatmandu now that you mention it. I tried to see if I could find the original thread, but no luck. It may simply be too old, since I did come across a thread from around April 2008 that mentioned the Carl Spock phenomenon was a year old at that point.