Seen here about to learn the hard way that kitty kisses are only for people who like the taste of cat ass, Data spends a tender moment with his cat Spot. And this is rap about Spot set to Dr. Dre’s ‘Forgot about Dre’, as edited by Dan Bull from a poem Data recites in the season six Next Generation episode, ‘Schisms’. I was so inspired I just wrote one about my dog Chloe, set to the very same rap. ? Hey Chlo-e, still the same ol’ d with no pedigree hated on by most of these purebreeds with no treats, no love, no fetch, no collar and no squeaks no walks, no park and a bunch of fleas mad at you cause you can finally afford to lay around & sleep ? Hit the jump for the video and a picture of Chloe cause she’s always wanted to be internet famous. I’ll get around to recording her version eventually.

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Note: Click HERE for a full-size 7′ version of the chart in case you want to print it out and tape on a bedroom wall to make love to or whatever. A geeky father, excited about his daughter’s upcoming first birthday, decided to make her a geeky growth chart. This is her him standing by it. In case you can’t tell, it measures height in tribbles , Yoda , R2-D2 , Frodo, Princess Leia , a Dalek , Spock and Darth Vader . Me? I’m a solid Spock. With tribble balls. No — R2-D2’s. Geeky Dad — with another link to download a program that’ll split the poster into pieces you can easily print. Also, to donate a couple bucks to his daughter’s college fund for providing you with a free-of-charge growth chart. Thanks to Mary, who prefers a more metric system of measuring height.

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Dad Makes Custom Sci-Fi Character Growth Chart For Daughter’s First Birthday

Seen here looking like she just asked for a hug before realizing she was in the middle of shitting her pants, this is Youtube user meekakitty singing her sure-to-be-only single (red-shirt — probably dead by now) ‘Star Trek Girl’. It looks like it was filmed in a dormitory bathroom . Also, it worries me that tipster “Steve” prefaced the video link with “this chick is f***in’ hot” because from the minute-and-a-half I watched she definitely looked “f***in’ fourteen”. But who knows, maybe he meant to send something else and isn’t such a creeper after all. BWAHAHAHAHA!! Nope, he’s a pervert. Aaaaaaaaand probably not sending me anymore tips. Hit the jump for 5:00 of autotunery and spasmodic dancing.

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‘Star Trek Girl’ Song And Music Video

Star Trek urns : niche product or the new standard in ash receptacles ? I’m gonna go with niche product. BURN ME UP, SCOTTY. The $800 urns, from funeral products retailer Eternal Image, come with one of two inscriptions: “To boldly go” (pictured above) or “The voyage continues.” Details on the urns, from StarTrek.com: “Each urn features a capacity of 190 cubic inches and is constructed from a composite blend of natural minerals, an etched stainless steel faceplate and name scroll, and an image of the Enterprise printed on anodized aluminum, with the Enterprise visible through a cutout of the franchise’s signature Delta logo. A personalized nameplate can be affixed above the graphic.” 190 cubic inches? I dunno, I feel like that special, recently dead Star Trek fan in my life might be a little over 190 cubic ash-inches. Do you carry anything in the 300-350 inch range? No? That’s cool, I can flush part of him. Product Site via Star Trek Urns Boldly Go Into the Afterlife [wired] Thanks to Uncle_FUJ, who just wants his ashes shot out of a cannon at a monster truck rally like a normal person.

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Oh I’m Boldly Going — To Meet My Maker!

See? When it’s zipped up it looks like a regular hand wave, but, after a partial zip-down, it becomes the traditional Vulcan salute . Plus — BAM! — sex-change, bow tie and glasses! And all for $40. Not even a back-alley surgeon will sew a wiener on for that cheap! And that’s not taking the glasses or bow tie into consideration. Even clip-ons are expensive these days. Plus, and I’m just throwing this out there — with a little alteration you could turn this Spocker into a shocker . You’ll be the envy of your whole fraternity! Threadless Product Site Thanks to Ace, who doesn’t wear hoodies because they always f*** up his do’.

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Clever, Veeeery Clever: Spock Hand Hoodie

Tribbles , the lovable Star Trek fluffballs best known for turning into Gremlins if you get them wet, aren’t just made of a bunch of pubes glued together like I previously thought. No, it turns out they actually have body parts , including, and virtually limited to: sexual organs. And speaking of sexual organs: somebody call the piano repairman, I’ve really done it this time. Anatomy Of A Tribble [buzzfeed]

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Star Trek Science: Anatomy Of A Tribble

I don’t want to ruin the premise of this little video for you but basically the infamous Star Wars word crawl from the beginning of all the movies starts falling to earth and the Enterprise has to come save us. Woops . I’m not good at keeping secrets either. Youtube Thanks to bowzee, who may or may not be Bowser’s feminine brother.

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We’re All Gonna Die!: Star Wars Vs. Star Trek

While the Joker(s) gandered at Tiberius Stark Trek cologne (previous pic), I considered dousing myself in “Khaaann!”, the Genki Wear scent being modeled here by Enterprise “booth babe” Chantel Gonzales. A limited run of only 500 bottles debuted at Comic-Con this year. A sculptor at the Hasbro booth uses a KerrLab Ultra-Waxer to bring highly-detailed characters to life (below). Ken Sadlock from Comic Images models a R2-D2 Backpack Buddy : “When Artoo sits on the back of Luke’s X-Wing, he helps make sure all systems are go. When Artoo sits on your back, he makes sure all your junk is in order.” Obviously. Two limited edition vinyl Voltron figurines from Toynami . 300 of the $40 black bot (right) and 1,000 of the $30 full-color bot (left) sold out by day 2. The mold tech and paint design for both figurines were created by Daisuke Fukuda, pictured below. Carl Brutananadilewski ATHF nesting dolls; $20 from Adult Swim. A steampunk fawn and crocodile by Lisa Black , a New Zealand-based artist who embellishes old taxidermy with mechanical, robotic parts. The pieces both sold for $3000 and $2000, respectively, at the Century Guild Decorative Arts booth. The devil is in the details… Previously: ComiCon: Day 1 [Verdict: Nerdywood!] Best worst Star Trek parodies - Boing Boing Gadgets Star Trek characters who Tweet - Boing Boing Gadgets The Paradox Mouse is one part steampunk, one part taxidermy … Star Shooter: Voltron Camera Robotech, Voltron Movies on the Way - Boing Boing Gadgets Star Trike at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con - Boing Boing Gadgets Plush R2-D2 backpack is the droid you're looking for - Boing Boing … Hasbro's 'Legacy Collection Millennium Falcon' makes point-five …

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It’s Friday, and, since I love you all, how about some sexy Star Trek and Star Wars themed corsets made by Etsy seller Evening Arwen? The Star Trek corsets go for $200 a pop and the Star Wars models (which include the rest of the costumes, but not the actual women), are $500 (trooper) and $600 (Vader). Hit the jump to see them and get all woop woop and ooh la la in your pants and blah blah is anybody still reading this? No? Okay good. Hit the jump already, geez.

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Gallery: Sexy Star Trek and Star Wars Corsets

My friend, a VFX engineer, shares this frustration with the IMAX version of Star Trek (which she otherwise dug): Just for future reference, ST was not shot in IMAX, and therefore is not a true imax film. imax is 65mm, 15-perf film, with an aspect ratio of 1:1.37 and a MASSIVE amount of image area, approximately 4x the size of VistaVision (VV is also the same format 35mm still cameras shoot, imagine a negative almost four times the surface area of one that was shot in your still camera.) Star Trek was shot in cinemascope, an anamorphic format that squeezes the image on the film, but projects it through lenses that stretch it back out horizontally to its 1:2.35 aspect ratio. C-scope is run through a normal movie camera vertically, (90 degrees to a still camera) and exposes a frame taking up four perfs of film - about half the film area of a 35mm still camera. What Star Trek has done for their imax projection is just stretch their anamorphic cinemascope (1828×1556) image to 3656×1556 and then blow it up by 12% to 4096×1746 where it only takes up 60% of the height of the half-resolution imax - 4096×2988. (that is, unless they have cropped in at the sides to literally do a pan&scan on the 1:2.35 cinemascope image, ugh!) The end result of all this unsqueezing and blowing up is that at the very best, you will get an image that has 1/8th the information of a standard imax image. What you see will be much softer, although it may not be noticed by the general public unless they see a side-by-side comparison with a true imax print. Full-resolution imax is 10240×7470 (10k by 8k), btw, but it isn’t often used in visual effects because of the sheer amount of data required for each frame. Other films will be shot in imax and c-scope, with some sequences being full imax, so in the theater the screen will jump to a taller picture for some sequences. I think Batman did it last summer. Normal theaters will only see a c-scope extraction (trimming top and bottom) during the imax sequences.

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VFX engineer on why Star Trek ain’t IMAX