Riker Infomercial - Wow...

[Frontier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHm02FeCH8

Just...wow.

 

[General Martok]

Lame, lame, lame, LAME!!!

 

[candida]

A significantly better script than his last TV appearance as Riker...

 

[Good Will Riker]

When was this filmed?

 

[K-Star]

Seen it. Quite lame, but an interesting advertising gimmick. Kinda reminds me of the video we watched in 8th grade that advertised the Math-A-Thon challenge... It was sponsored by Nintendo and they had a guy in a Mario mascot suit. Quite cheesy, but I was happy to see Nintendo was involved, even if it wasn't recent (the system used in the skit was an NES.)

 

[Spider]

Ack! I can't watch until I get home. At work, WebSense blocks everything from youtube and most public storage areas, like photobucket.

I usually can't see pictures and avatars on the BBS while at work.

 

[Dale]

Wow... what a great big five gallon bucket of cheeseballs! OH for SHAME!

 

[Gold Grizzly]

Frakes acted it quite well. I think that this should probably be considered canon ...

 

[Mallory]

Whatever Frakes and Paramount got for that was not enough.

 

[Turbo]

Spider said:
Ack! I can't watch until I get home. At work, WebSense blocks everything from youtube and most public storage areas, like photobucket.

I usually can't see pictures and avatars on the BBS while at work.

Lucky you. When my highschool used WebSense, it blocked the BBS too. It's evil software.

 

[Spider]

I just watched it. Yech.

That's one that won't make the poll.

 

[Licorice Allsort]

What was that? Windows 3.1? HAHA oh man. That looks like an early 90's commercial, 92-93 maybe?

 

[sbk1234]

 

[Danoz]

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!!? Did I serious just see that?

 

[Harvey]

Oh my God. Well, a paychecks a paycheck...

 

[Trekker4747]

Not only did that commercial confuse me and make me glad I don't work in some crazy data-management system but also stunned me that Paramount would allow it.

But, let me get this straight...

Riker wanted to give this guy's business' control to Skynet?

 

[StewMc]

The copyright notice at the end gives a date of 1993 for this thing. So do you think maybe this infomercial was also set during "The Pegasus": when Riker wasn't worrying about Pressman and dodgy Holodeck programs, he was giving out advice to cheesy salesmen in the past?

 

[Amaris]

Yeah, I noticed the Win 3.11 GUI. (It would be 3.11 because that's what was used for networking. )

I, personally, loved it, and must say that it similarly mirrors one of my hopes that someday, the Enterprise will beam me up while I'm at work.

-J.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Trekker4747 said:
but also stunned me that Paramount would allow it.

This is Paramount's public mask =

This is the face behind that mask = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Chris3123]

Good Will Riker said:

Trekker4747 said:
but also stunned me that Paramount would allow it.

This is Paramount's public mask =

This is the face behind that mask = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

In other words: "We are all very pleased."