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[bloodyrosemccoy]

DAD: (telling me about a Daily Show sketch) Yeah, they were reading the reports from that Chinese rover on the moon. And they had your Star Trek guy in there!
ME: ... MY Star Trek guy?
DAD: He's pretty funny.
ME: Leonard Nimoy? George Takei?
DAD: No, the NEW captain!
ME: Chris Pine?
DAD: No, uh--
MOM: (helpfully) Picard!
ME: Oh, Patrick Stewart!
DAD: Yeah, they had him dressed up as the rover!
ME: 'The NEW captain'?

I guess Dad's a TOS guy all the way.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I wonder what that makes Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew and... whatever the guy who played the captain on Enterprise. Scott Bakula?

Probably 'the black captain', 'the lady captain' and 'the guy from Quantum Leap'.

(Local TV stations didn't play Enterprise when it was on. I also had to catch the last few seasons of Voyager in reruns. I was not a happy fan.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hey, if TOS is your cup of tea, then Picard is the new guy, and all others are just weak runners-up to the sound of Kirk's awesomeness.

...hah, I said "cup of tea" which is Picard's thing. I'm all bass-ackwards!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Dad neither knows nor cares about such nonsense as "other captains"! The only reason he knows Picard at all is because I get all happy when Patrick Stewart shows up anywhere.

I figured he meant Chris Pine because he's seen the New Trek, but mostly what it does is make him reminisce about how he used to watch the original stuff with his Mom when he was a kid.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That's Dad, all right.