This Trek Is A Lie.

So once upon a time, there was a show called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It was the one with the black man who became captain at the tail end of the third season. Anyway, there was a 2-part episode called “Past Tense”, where the crew is warped back in time to a pivotal moment in Earth history called The Bell Riots, a violent confrontation in the sanctuary district of San Francisco. It’s one of the classic episodes of Star Trek that deal with serious issues in a way that give it gravity and weight, unlike today’s Trek where serious issues are not dealt with so much as one side hammered in while we cut to dancing Klingons and crying crewmen.

The date that the Bell Riots occured?

August 30th, 2024.

It’s been two weeks since then… and not a peep of a Bell riot nor any mention of anyone named Gabriel Bell.

So… what happened? More timey-whimey bullshit that we have to fix up. Did it get pushed up the timeline much like the Eugenic Wars were pushed up when 1996 came and went without so much a peep of a Khan Singh in the world news?

Well, I’m sure Alex Kurtzman and the crack creative heads at Star Trek World Headquarters will eventually solve this conundrum… maybe… maybe not…

Either that, or they’ll produce another Trek show with 10 hour-long episodes of crew people doing nothing but cry on the bridge or something. Hey, we need to fill the void left behind by Discovery, so might as well get on that bandwagon.

Anything has to be better than that Section 31 thing they’re crapping out…

TNA Hard Justice 2007

For our final day of Kurt Angle Appreciation Week brought about by national tragedy 23 years ago, we’re looking at TNA Hard Justice 2007. Otherwise known as the show where they just gave Kurt Angle ALL the gold.

But yes, the main event for this match sees reigning X-Division and Tag-Team champion Samoa Joe putting his belts on the line against reigning TNA World Heavyweight Champion (and also IWGP Champion… kinda) Kurt Angle in a Winners Take All title bout. Which means everything else beneath that main event means nothing and while my brain tells me that I should just stick with the main event and skip the rest, I feel compelled to watch the whole thing because it’s…

Aw, fuck it. I should have listened to my brain.

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WWE Attempts To Sell Fanmade Friendship Bracelet – Gets Blowback

File this under WTF if you have one, but WWE tried to turn the fan-made CM Punk friendship bracelet that has been the central plot point of his feud with Drew McIntyre into a piece of merchandise for sale on WWEShop.com. This naturally prompted the fan who made said bracelet to comment about it, which led to other fans to comment about whether said fan is getting a cut from this deal.

Well, turns out WWE is not going to be selling fan-made friendship bracelets after all. Common sense prevails, I suppose. Isn’t the point of a friendship bracelet is that you give it to your friends as a symbol of your enduring friendship with those individuals? Why would I want to purchase a friendship bracelet for myself, baring the names of other people’s friends, let alone those of their family?

How sad is it that on the day after news broke of the passing of James Earl Jones, THIS is the topic that’s worth discussing on the blog at six in the morning. Dang.

Gotta run, kids. Review should be up on schedule later today. Bye.