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Ran across a site that has a posting to an awesome memorabalia auction. Check out the first page of stuff and flip through from there. The auction contains all kinds of goodies from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator; appliances, props, scripts, costumes, and so on. Extremely pricey, but worth checking out. If only a had won the lottery!
Over on StarLog.com, there is an article about Universal Studios is up on the block.
Universal Studios created the monster movie, with Bela Lugosi as Dracula, and made stars of Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and many others. Hopefully the sale will help get this legendary studio back on its feet.
Stardate oh, wait, that's pajama boy talk.
No decent waves again today. Bummer.
Put into Deep Space 9, met with that Ferengi about a trade for some Mr. Zog's Sex Wax. He wants a Genesis Torpedo AND a 5 cases of Tribble Sweat for the hundred barrels. Asked if the torpedo was for Captain Gremmie, to which the Ferengi said "None of your business." Warned him that this thing produces too much wave for Gremmie to handle, which is why it comes with a warning label from the Feddie's Surfer General. Otherwise, only one case of Tribble Sweat. Eventually settled for the torpedo, one case of 100 Feddies Tribble Sweat, a very good brand and two barrels of Bloodwine, while the Ferengi threw in 10 cases of something called Romulan Ale. Hard bargain.
Ran into O'Brien. He was looking for a new surf program for the holodeck. Said he needed the practice before he and that Klingon wanna be, Woof, or whatever his name is, took Defiant out for the Betelgeuse Rollers. Told him I would see what I could do next time I'm out. And to have some good trade stock on hand. Start squeezing tribbles, Dude.
Ran into Dax. Dude, is she hot. Makes me want to count her spots. Took her to that Ferengi's bar, and we swapped rounds of MY Tribble Sweat, and traded surf stories. Invited her to go out surfing with us. She'd be a good Captain's woman. She sounded agreeable, but would have to wait until she can get leave for her duties. Dax said she'd rather go out with me than that fake Klingon, Woof.
The Ferengi threw us out, said he was tired of drunken surfers and, anyway, he was closed.
Went back to my ship and crashed. Dreamed about surfing some big waves soon.
Kahuna
Stardate oh, wait, that's pajama boy talk.
Received call from engineering. Running low on Mr. Zog's Sex Wax. I told Makani to make arrangements with that Ferengi on Deep Space 9 for a hundred barrels. That should be enough to last through a month of Praxis scale surfing. Incredible how much of that stuff we go through in a week. It's almost as though my engineer is eating the stuff. Or something.
Surf is flat throughout the quadrant, anyway, and the Duras sisters haven't finished testing that new torpedo for me yet. Are they HOT!
No surf, no fun. I need a beer with a Tribble Sweat chaser. Why aren't Klingon ships equipped like Kirk's, with nubile yeomen, er, yeowomen, at hand. Make note, recruit more women for the ship for those surfless days.
Kahuna
Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain in this Action/Adventure film. The film, set in 1899, opens with a tank rolling through London, loaded with storm troopers armed with automatic weapons. The premise of the film, based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, the story takes a group of fictional heroes, led by Quatermain, to stop the villainous Fantom. The group includes: the Invisible Man, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyl, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker (a vampire). Oh, and some American named Tom Sawyer, who was added in to the film.
The League is assembled to stop the Fantom, who is set on starting a global war in order to promote and test his new line of armaments, and will stop at nothing to develop new weapons technologies, and push for the conflagration that will make him rich by selling extremely powerful (for 1899) weapons to the highest bidders.
This is a fun, comic book style, adventure, with some good scenes with Connery’s Quatermain and Agent Sawyer. The band of heroes has there own secrets to guard, and to make matters worse, find they must deal with a traitor in their midst.
This film is full of special effects, not the least of which is the Nautilus, which is a magnificent piece of work, although making it solar powered didn’t work for me (should have been nuclear powered). Strong acting from a great cast who worked well together, making this film worth seeing on the big screen.
Stardate oh, wait, that's pajama boy talk.
The surf was really up today at Ceti Alpha VI.
We got the IKV Kowabunga positioned, watching the sets roll in, watching for that perfect wave, when all of a sudden, over the ship-to-ship, I received a hail from that Feddie Sheep, Captain Gremmie of the garbage scowl, Bat Guano.
"What do you want, Gremmie?" I demanded.
"Where's the su-u-u-u-u-r-f, du-u-u-u-u-de?" he responded most sheepishly.
"No way, hoser. This is for locals only. Better scat before Khan spots you!"
"Oh, come on, Kahu-u-u-u-na, there's plenty of wa-a-a-a-ves to go around."
This poser just doesn't know when to cut and run, and the waves were getting more and more gnarly. Realizing I'll never shake this turkey, it was either blast him out of space, or push him on a mellow chaser wave, the kind that even Gremmie can't wipe out on. Of course, I could always let Khan swing by in Reliant and fry Gremmie's pooper-scooper. I decided to take the higher road of honor, especially since a new set was coming in, and it looked like the chaser would be about Gremmie's speed.
"Oh, Jimmy Kirk, Gremmie! Catch this next wave, and let's see what you can do with it."
"Cool, du-u-u-u-de. See you on the other side, Kahu-u-u-na." And with that he went for the wave I directed him to.
This chaser was even more mellow than I thought it would be, barely a ripple in a wave tank, and that's really about all that Gremmie can handle. Maybe he'll get lucky and score some points and get command of something better than the Bat Guano.
But then again, maybe not. It just figures that this hosehead would wipe out after a few A.U.s, even after this itsy-bitsy chaser wave had petered out. What a loser!
Kahuna
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