Item #6: Whoopi Goldberg's Bar on the Enterprise
I always thought that changing your name to reflect your interests or subculture was
super-lame. All you Goth kids going by some animal name (i.e. "Wolf") can suck it and all you
hippies going by an insect name (i.e. "Roach" or something) can do the CDC a favor and
incinerate yourselves. I think it's equally lame when people change their names to get
acting gigs so they don't sound too "ethnic" or whatever.
I think Whoopi Goldberg did that and, in the process, wound up with a name that will go
down in history as the height of retardedness (yes, that's a word). So, naturally, what
does the Federation do? They hire her and make her a bartender...
In a bar that doesn't serve any alcohol.
Oh, please. Mr. Roddenberry, I was with you on the whole "world peace and racial
harmony" thing but your vision of the future sucked the minute you threw prohibition into
the mix. Were I trapped on some dismal ship that is constantly, narrowly, escaping
destruction I would want a little drink now and then. And if Marina Sirtis was the hottest
chick on board, just fucking shoot me.
I always thought that changing your name to reflect your interests or subculture was
super-lame. All you Goth kids going by some animal name (i.e. "Wolf") can suck it and all you
hippies going by an insect name (i.e. "Roach" or something) can do the CDC a favor and
incinerate yourselves. I think it's equally lame when people change their names to get
acting gigs so they don't sound too "ethnic" or whatever.
I think Whoopi Goldberg did that and, in the process, wound up with a name that will go
down in history as the height of retardedness (yes, that's a word). So, naturally, what
does the Federation do? They hire her and make her a bartender...
In a bar that doesn't serve any alcohol.
Oh, please. Mr. Roddenberry, I was with you on the whole "world peace and racial
harmony" thing but your vision of the future sucked the minute you threw prohibition into
the mix. Were I trapped on some dismal ship that is constantly, narrowly, escaping
destruction I would want a little drink now and then. And if Marina Sirtis was the hottest
chick on board, just fucking shoot me.
