Comments on: Sunday Funnies: LOL-May 30

By: Carol S

Carol S — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:52:40 +0000

John (29), I will cheerfully and willfully imagine that Mike Peters wrote “Starfleet Intelligence announced …” instead of “The Federation announced …” (which is like saying “The United States announced …”) and avoided mentioning Star Trek itself, but his editor figured all this was too subtle and overruled him. (Do comic strips even have editors these days?)

Despite all this, I really liked the double joke.

By: John Small Berries

John Small Berries — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:48:11 +0000

I enjoy the fact that Mike Peters thinks his readership is so clueless that despite the Starfleet uniforms, the obvious depictions of Kirk, Spock and a communicator, and the mention of the Federation, he still felt it necessary to explicitly indicate that it was Star Trek (in a way that wouldn’t make sense in context, no less)… despite the fact that anyone who wouldn’t recognize the drawing as a reference to Star Trek probably isn’t familiar enough with the show to get the joke anyway.

By: Fnord

Fnord — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:23:04 +0000

mdt48302 #8: I had a boss paraphrase that quote at me once. He said, “In the words of Winston Churchill, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart, but if you’re not a conservative you’re fired. Clean out your desk right now, you stupid hippie terrorist.”

He and I didn’t get along very well.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:22:21 +0000

That was DS9. A throwaway line in Trials and Tribble-ations. The time officer in Voyager was mostly concerned with Janeway, and the time traveler in Enterprise was cagey.

By: Woodrowfan

Woodrowfan — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:03:56 +0000

In ST: Enterprise (or was it Voyager) there was even a reference by Federation Time Cops (or some such) about what a HUGE file Kirk had (said with considerable annoyance)

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:07:49 +0000

George, that was my first thought as well. Classic episode. The cartoon’s cute, but a little behind on the times (the lag between when a cartoon’s conceived and when it’s printed can be a killer sometimes) and Spock’s ears look really weird, which bothers me more than it probably should. McCoy would’ve really made it.

By: George

George — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:55:46 +0000

I guess my point wasn’t too clear.

The lost communicator scene was a classic humor scene that is very close parallel to this cartoon. It would have been even closer if McCoy were drawn in getting the “eye” from Spock.

I only brought up time travel because this is one episode where time travel *didn’t* happen.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:09:06 +0000

There were a number of episodes involving time travel in ST:TOS - Assignment Earth, The City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday (all of which took them to 20th century Earth), The Naked Time (rewound events a few days), and All Our Yesterdays (Spock, Kirk, and McCoy were sent to various time periods on the planet Sarpiedon).

By: BroBoCop

BroBoCop — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:40:26 +0000

George, the whole crew traveled back to the 20th century in the 4th movie, The Voyage Home. The wording makes it sound as if Kirk went alone, but the joke works in context of the film. Hard to believe that movie was released 24 years ago. Geez, I’m old…

By: George

George — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:58:53 +0000

Re: Lost Star Trek Communicator

The 20th Century reference is probably just a mistake…but this comic works at a couple of different levels and the cartoonist might have gotten himself confused.

As well as the Apple iPhone prototype story of the last couple of months, there was a Star Trek episode (original series, “A Piece of the Action”) where McCoy loses his communicator on a planet of 1920’s style Chicago Gangsters.

There was no time travel involved, but the episode could be mistaken for one where Kirk/Spock/McCoy travel back to the 20th century.