Dumb People in Hollywood: Film at eleven
Sep. 15th, 2004 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyIn the spirit of Victor Von Doom, BSc,I bring you another Big Hole Poked in Fantasy!
Okay, this time it's Star Trek. The REAL Trek (shame that really cool trailer's gone, I would have linked to it), the Original Series. Specifically, Space Seed.
Anyway, Kirk and Crew have found the Botany Bay, and are defrosting the worst group of terrorists and dictators know to history. Good idea, Jimmy.
Anyway, at one point, Lt. McGivers ganders at the swiftly warming Khan Noonien Singh and exclaims in a voice tinged with lust and historical curiosity "He's a Sikh! They're terrific warriors!"
Now, that's all and good. Unless you posses more knowledge of world religions than, oh, the average fetus. In which case, you might be somewhat familiar with some of the basic principles of Sikhism. Such as the unshorn hair. Or the turban.
Or the fact that he looks NOTHING, in fact, like an actual Sikh would look like. Apparently, Ships Historian in the federation is a political appointment. Either that, or she just read his name plate and saw the name "Singh", which is also one of the guidelines. But if she saw his name, why wouldn't she, the Ship's Historian, recognize KNS as, you know, a Eugenic Superbeing with balls of iron?
So, in summation: Ship's Historians are stupid, and Hollywood writers are also stupid. Put them together, and you have a perfect singularity of dumbness.
Okay, this time it's Star Trek. The REAL Trek (shame that really cool trailer's gone, I would have linked to it), the Original Series. Specifically, Space Seed.
Anyway, Kirk and Crew have found the Botany Bay, and are defrosting the worst group of terrorists and dictators know to history. Good idea, Jimmy.
Anyway, at one point, Lt. McGivers ganders at the swiftly warming Khan Noonien Singh and exclaims in a voice tinged with lust and historical curiosity "He's a Sikh! They're terrific warriors!"
Now, that's all and good. Unless you posses more knowledge of world religions than, oh, the average fetus. In which case, you might be somewhat familiar with some of the basic principles of Sikhism. Such as the unshorn hair. Or the turban.
Or the fact that he looks NOTHING, in fact, like an actual Sikh would look like. Apparently, Ships Historian in the federation is a political appointment. Either that, or she just read his name plate and saw the name "Singh", which is also one of the guidelines. But if she saw his name, why wouldn't she, the Ship's Historian, recognize KNS as, you know, a Eugenic Superbeing with balls of iron?
So, in summation: Ship's Historians are stupid, and Hollywood writers are also stupid. Put them together, and you have a perfect singularity of dumbness.
