I’m not sure why this was created, but it’s pretty darn cool!

Brilliant! Too bad you can’t have a red shirt in a black and white film. (And I’ll forgive the March of the Empire blasphemy)

Yep .. that’s him. Patrick Stewart engages with the Michigan band at halftime of their November 4 game. He appears to be a bit crazed about returning to a position of power.

PS – There’s no truth to the rumor that the flute section all dressed up as Wesley Crusher.

(Hat tip: Deadspin)

In keeping with the big 4-0 celebration, I present to you a most excellent Trek music video. The person who uploaded this apparently has boxes upon boxes of Trek and Babylon 5 VCR tapes and has each memorized and catalogued. I say this because the mix of video to music is outstanding. This person has several more videos posted, all amusing and well done. Along with the above, I recommend Inspector Gadget, I’m Too Sexy for my Shirt and the B5 Total Eclipse of the Heart. Outstanding.

OK so I know this is like, extremely geeky, but today IS the 40th anniversary of Star Trek making its television debut. Love it or hate it, you cannot deny the influence upon pop culture that Star Trek has had, and it deserves some amount of respect on this day.

Oh, and those Monty Python fellows aren’t too bad either.

On a related note, I was at a birthday party for one of my son’s friends two nights ago, and there was a 5-year old running around by the name of Kahless (pronounced kay-less). I just had to ask his mother if she was aware she named him after the Klingon messiah. She confirmed my suspicion, to which I enthusiasticly divulged that my 10-month old is named Dax. Needless to say, we hit it off quite well…