[1781] in Humor
HUMOR: The Red Uniform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Sun Dec 29 22:56:11 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 22:46:40 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:05:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: Chris Small <chris@eecs.harvard.edu>
Forwarded-by: Jim Leuper <jleuper@anim.dreamworks.com>
Someone here reminded me of a pending task when they sent email that a
bug had been fixed:
> It's dead, Jim. That bug beamed down wearing a red uniform...
I always wanted to write an episode of Star Trek where the security guards
absolutely refuse to beam down until issued different uniforms. "A
different color, or I'm not going anywhere, Captain! I'm not beaming down
there wearing a fucking bullseye!" Kirk makes a quick decision and the
security guard swaps jerseys with Dr. McCoy, who is promptly wasted by
the aliens on the surface. Everyone (including the aliens) beams back up
to the Enterprise for a big party to celebrate. Kirk has a private party
with their female leader, and they wind up joining the Federation so that
she can be closer to the captain.
In order to update the concept for Next Generation, the security guard
needs to be smaller, and he swaps jerseys with Wesley Crusher.
--
Jim Leuper
jleuper@dreamworks.com DreamWorks SKG Feature Animation
