"You Can't Do That On Star Trek!" Lives!

[Wowbagger]

If you've been online long enough, floating from site to site in that horrifying and ever-changing miasma of nerdliness we call the treksphere, then odds are you recall the wonderful old website "You Can't Do That On Star Trek!", the site that tried to do Trek photoshopping before photoshopping was mainstream... or good.

I know, when I was nine, hanging around Mom's office at school to use her crazy fast 56k modem, YCDTOST was a major focus of my day (along with Decipher.com's Star Trek CCG "dream cards" section). My sister and I spent quite a few hours browsing the images, laughing at half-understood Netscape and Quantum Leap jokes. We quote the Swedish Chef-of-Borg image to this day. ("You vill bee essemilated by the Bork Bork Bork!") I was terribly bummed when I tried to find it again about four years ago, only to find that it had folded in 2001. (This was the same day I found out that Star Trek In Sound and Vision had gone down, so it was just a bad day all around.)

But I just discovered that there's a reasonably complete save state of YCDTOST in the Internet Archive. The humor is certainly a lot more juvenile--not to mention stupid--than I remember it being, but it was still a nice bit of nostalgia for me, and, in case there were any other old-time readers of "You Can't Do That On Star Trek!" hanging around here... I thought I'd share the link with you.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000425013131/http://washington.xtn.net/~philipb/youcant.htm

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Nice discovery ... I remember looking at this site several years ago. Awesome stuff there too. Thank you.

 

[John Picard]

Some of the contributions were astoundingly clever and over the top. It is a shame that it could not continue.

 

[MikeGainer]

Wonderful! I remember visiting that website when I was in Junior High! Good memories.

 

[Phillip Culley]

Good grief - I remember this site from 10 years ago back when I started university and got unrestricted net access!

Those were the days

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If you say "I don't know", does it splash you in the face with slime?

 

[hellsgate]

Why not update the site with 2008 / 2009 photoshop'ed content? Photoshop composition (monthly, weekly, et al.) challenges just like in the Fan Fiction section?

 

[CmdrAJD]

I remember that site! Actually, I think I made a couple of incredibly bad submissions to it at some point.


EDIT: Yep. Gallery 5 from 1997 has my one lame attempt at photoshopping. I guess it's true. Once you post something online, it NEVER goes away.

 

[ToddPence]

If you say "I don't know", does it splash you in the face with slime?

Damnit! That's exactly what I was going to post!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I know, when I was nine, hanging around Mom's office at school to use her crazy fast 56k modem, YCDTOST was a major focus of my day (along with Decipher.com's Star Trek CCG "dream cards" section). My sister and I spent quite a few hours browsing the images, laughing at half-understood Netscape and Quantum Leap jokes. We quote the Swedish Chef-of-Borg image to this day. ("You vill bee essemilated by the Bork Bork Bork!") I was terribly bummed when I tried to find it again about four years ago, only to find that it had folded in 2001. (This was the same day I found out that Star Trek In Sound and Vision had gone down, so it was just a bad day all around.)

But I just discovered that there's a reasonably complete save state of YCDTOST in the Internet Archive. The humor is certainly a lot more juvenile--not to mention stupid--than I remember it being, but it was still a nice bit of nostalgia for me, and, in case there were any other old-time readers of "You Can't Do That On Star Trek!" hanging around here... I thought I'd share the link with you.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000425013131/http://washington.xtn.net/~philipb/youcant.htm

YES! I remember YCDTOST! I also remember the day they took it down. A sad day for all...

I also remember the STCCG Dream Cards. Some of them were quite clever. (I remember the Romulan Praetor one. )

Ah, YCDTOST and Decipher STCCG dream cards. Those were the days...

 

[Shawnster]

I was looking for this when the first images of XI's Enterprise being built ON EARTH started to appear. Thanks for finding this!

 

[Leandar]

I know, when I was nine, hanging around Mom's office at school to use her crazy fast 56k modem, YCDTOST was a major focus of my day (along with Decipher.com's Star Trek CCG "dream cards" section). My sister and I spent quite a few hours browsing the images, laughing at half-understood Netscape and Quantum Leap jokes. We quote the Swedish Chef-of-Borg image to this day. ("You vill bee essemilated by the Bork Bork Bork!") I was terribly bummed when I tried to find it again about four years ago, only to find that it had folded in 2001. (This was the same day I found out that Star Trek In Sound and Vision had gone down, so it was just a bad day all around.)

But I just discovered that there's a reasonably complete save state of YCDTOST in the Internet Archive. The humor is certainly a lot more juvenile--not to mention stupid--than I remember it being, but it was still a nice bit of nostalgia for me, and, in case there were any other old-time readers of "You Can't Do That On Star Trek!" hanging around here... I thought I'd share the link with you.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000425013131/http://washington.xtn.net/~philipb/youcant.htm

YES! I remember YCDTOST! I also remember the day they took it down. A sad day for all...

I also remember the STCCG Dream Cards. Some of them were quite clever. (I remember the Romulan Praetor one. )

Ah, YCDTOST and Decipher STCCG dream cards. Those were the days...

If memory serves, the guy who had it up didn't take the site down, Tripod just took it down for no discernible reason whatsoever. Caused a pretty big stink too, if I'm remembering right.

I too, really loved that site back in the day. Now, what they can do makes the pictures on that site seem archaic and completely amateurish, even though they're still great. lol

Edit: OOPS! I didn't notice the 2008 date on the thread. Sorry to the mods if that's a problem!