Heh. There's a way in which I look at this, and I think, "Gee, Paramount's really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to think up Trek-related holiday ornament tchotchke-tude," 'cos "Space Seed" Khan? Not really the most essential of Trek character (his role in the second film notwithstanding).
I mean, what's next? A Mugato ornament? A Tellarite? A Horta? The bartender from "The Trouble with Tribbles?"
All of which reminds me of a story I heard on NPR yesterday. Apparently, they screened the new Kiera Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice for the North American Jane Austin Society. The commentary from the assembled faithful was hilarious, and familiar to anyone who's ever spent time around a hard core fan of anything. These people are stone cold obsessive (a less tactful soul might call them batshit insane) and they make your average Trekk-ie/er/ist seem normal and well-adjusted in comparison. Hell, they make Comic Book Guy seem like a subtle depiction of a stock character type.
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I mean, what's next? A Mugato ornament? A Tellarite? A Horta? The bartender from "The Trouble with Tribbles?"
All of which reminds me of a story I heard on NPR yesterday. Apparently, they screened the new Kiera Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice for the North American Jane Austin Society. The commentary from the assembled faithful was hilarious, and familiar to anyone who's ever spent time around a hard core fan of anything. These people are stone cold obsessive (a less tactful soul might call them batshit insane) and they make your average Trekk-ie/er/ist seem normal and well-adjusted in comparison. Hell, they make Comic Book Guy seem like a subtle depiction of a stock character type.
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