Comments on: The Enterprise Enterprise http://www.showbits.net/2008/09/17/star-trek-sellouts/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:57:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: peterw http://www.showbits.net/2008/09/17/star-trek-sellouts/#comment-8194 peterw Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:36:46 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/?p=337#comment-8194 I've seen the Comic Relief clip before. It's pretty hard to forget the reference to Hoo-pie! :-) And you're right, the Enterprise Software clip was pretty bad. However they did say and then show the name of the company right at the end, although I knew it already from my mainframe computing days. The software is MainView, from Boole & Babbage. (I think "Blooper and Babbage" becomes a rather recursive misnomer!)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8194','peterw'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8194','peterw','I\'ve seen the Comic Relief clip before. It\'s pretty hard to forget the reference to Hoo-pie! :-)\r\n\r\nAnd you\'re right, the Enterprise Software clip was pretty bad. However they did say and then show the name of the company right at the end, although I knew it already from my mainframe computing days. The software is MainView, from Boole &amp; Babbage. (I think \"Blooper and Babbage\" becomes a rather recursive misnomer!)'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> I've seen the Comic Relief clip before. It's pretty hard to forget the reference to Hoo-pie! :-)

And you're right, the Enterprise Software clip was pretty bad. However they did say and then show the name of the company right at the end, although I knew it already from my mainframe computing days. The software is MainView, from Boole & Babbage. (I think "Blooper and Babbage" becomes a rather recursive misnomer!)

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]]> By: a2history http://www.showbits.net/2008/09/17/star-trek-sellouts/#comment-8193 a2history Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:13:29 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/?p=337#comment-8193 Great collection of Trek-flavored ads. I had seen the one for DirecTV, but not the others. Especially liked the one for Comic Relief that was created while the series was still in production.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8193','a2history'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8193','a2history','Great collection of Trek-flavored ads. I had seen the one for DirecTV, but not the others. Especially liked the one for Comic Relief that was created while the series was still in production.'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> Great collection of Trek-flavored ads. I had seen the one for DirecTV, but not the others. Especially liked the one for Comic Relief that was created while the series was still in production.
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]]> By: GeneD http://www.showbits.net/2008/09/17/star-trek-sellouts/#comment-8185 GeneD Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:42:55 +0000 http://www.showbits.net/?p=337#comment-8185 I was impressed at how closely the actors in the Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement resembled the cast of the classic <em>Star Trek</em> television series. While they were no doubt lip-synching, the likenesses showed what's possible. The acting and writing in several fan-made <em>Star Trek</em> videos is equally impressive, even if their casts don't look like Bill Shatner et al. Let's hope that <A HREF = "http://www.showbits.net/tag/star-trek-xi/">the upcoming <em>Star Trek</em> reboot movie</A> manages to evoke the original space opera as well as take us "where no one has gone before"...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('8185','GeneD'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Reply</small></a> | <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('8185','GeneD','I was impressed at how closely the actors in the Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement resembled the cast of the classic <em>Star Trek<\/em> television series. While they were no doubt lip-synching, the likenesses showed what\'s possible.\r\n\r\nThe acting and writing in several fan-made <em>Star Trek<\/em> videos is equally impressive, even if their casts don\'t look like Bill Shatner et al. Let\'s hope that <A HREF = \"http:\/\/www.showbits.net\/tag\/star-trek-xi\/\">the upcoming <em>Star Trek<\/em> reboot movie<\/A> manages to evoke the original space opera as well as take us \"where no one has gone before\"...'); return false;"><small class=\"commentmetadata\">Quote</small></a></div> I was impressed at how closely the actors in the Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement resembled the cast of the classic Star Trek television series. While they were no doubt lip-synching, the likenesses showed what's possible.

The acting and writing in several fan-made Star Trek videos is equally impressive, even if their casts don't look like Bill Shatner et al. Let's hope that the upcoming Star Trek reboot movie manages to evoke the original space opera as well as take us "where no one has gone before"…

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