Star Trek cake sours on some Trekkies
Today is Christie's birthday so we gave her the day off. In her stead Blog Editor Tony Pierce will fill in to bring you the funny and the weird.
There's nothing Christie likes better than Star Trek or Star Wars (unless it's online video games or comics) so what more fitting than to present this story about a fantastic baker known for his Star Wars cakes who busted with a delicious Star Trek creation, seen above.
On Sunday TrekMovie.com posted a story about Duff Goldman and his Baltimore bakery and as io9 noticed, the discerning fan was not all that amused.
Sean all-caps complained:
THIS IS A DISASTER I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY PUT SCOTTY IN THE NAVIGATOR’S POSITION I CAN’T BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE ARE SO CLUELESS ABOUT THE BASICS OF STAR TREK THIS IS A DISASTER
... which brought out the supporters and detractors alike.
Check out the comment thread and eat up the nerdity.
photo via TrekMovie
- Tony Pierce
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hahahaha. That's amazing. I so want that for my birthday!
You'll be happy to know that I already went toy shopping today and got some Doctor Who action figures and the Wrath of Khan Kirk doll. YEAH. It's amazing. Oh and I got the 10th doctor comic collection too.
:) Thank you for the day off. I'm enjoying the outdoors (which is RARE)
KIDDING.
kind of...
mostly kidding.
Posted by: christie | May 27, 2008 at 12:47 PM
so on her day off christie posts comments on her guest-blogger's posts?. . . isn't that, like, illegal or something?. . .
Posted by: bloopy | May 28, 2008 at 12:53 AM
You guys of course realize it was a joke? http://trekmovie.com/2008/05/27/trekmoviecom-comments-being-taken-too-seriously/
Posted by: Chuck | May 28, 2008 at 02:43 AM
Stop trying to divide by zero, bloopy. You made my head hurt.
Posted by: AmbroseKalifornia | May 28, 2008 at 04:17 AM
Tony Pierce is an idiot.
Posted by: Tim Adkins | May 28, 2008 at 08:09 AM
What I want to know is...how many fingers did he give Scotty? There had better be only 9 since Doohan lost one of his fingers during his service in WWII !
But then again what's the big deal about the cake being wrong when JJ Abrams is screwing up the new movie anyway AND making a public point that he doesn't give a rats butt about Trekkers & that the movie is (& I quote) "You can't really make a movie for them"...NOW THAT JUST W-R-O-N-G. Of course, he's also doing double-speak in other interviews saying that he wants "be true" to what's come before & "honoring" it. DOUBLE TALK. So in the grant scheme of the Trek world this cake is not that big of a deal.
Posted by: JMT | May 30, 2008 at 12:00 AM
What I want to know is...how many fingers did he give Scotty? There had better be only 9 since Doohan lost one of his fingers during his service in WWII !
But then again what's the big deal about the cake being wrong when JJ Abrams is screwing up the new movie anyway AND making a public point that he doesn't give a rats butt about Trekkers & that the movie is (& I quote) "You can't really make a movie for them"...NOW THAT JUST W-R-O-N-G. Of course, he's also doing double-speak in other interviews saying that he wants "be true" to what's come before & "honoring" it. DOUBLE TALK. So in the grand scheme of the Trek world this cake is not that big of a deal.
Posted by: JMT | May 30, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Pierce,
Any news on Edwards love child? Can we blog on it yet? Do you wistfully hope for the days of USSR style journalism?
Posted by: Mr. Evans | July 25, 2008 at 03:43 PM
So the LA Times decides to post a story on a Star Trek cake on her birthday instead of giving her a Star Trek cake? Two quarters at a news stand doesn't buy Christie a Star Trek Cake of her own?
The Times should have bought her a cake and spent some extra money to add a security guy (first and last episode kind of guy) so she could eat him guilt free. Everyone knew he was going to make the ultimate sacrifice anyway.
Posted by: Doug | July 26, 2008 at 12:38 AM