Misc. Trek-Related Mishaps

[Plikiplaki 0]

I guess I'll go first, to get things started...

 

 

Thursday, December 13, 2003

Braddock Sr High School

 

During 12th grade, I had purchased a rather loaded PDA and Graphing Calculator and used them everyday. The PDA had voice recognition technology and stored voice data for processing later and had a hard protective shell that opened like a flip phone or a TOS communicator.

 

 

After picking up a rather loaded AP Calculus Worksheet, I accidentally picked up my PDA instead of my calculator and said "Computer, y =x(9x^3-12y^2)/ (i)x+23, simplify. Locate Roger Duncan." The words (a lá Riker) just slipped out in my haste to complete this problem, I did not realize I had done this until i looked at the screen and saw that it was asking for a clarification. Unfortunately, I had spoken loud enough to be heard by everyone in the class. They all stared at me for what seemed like an eternity, and I, embarassed by their stares, tried to hide inside my seat until the teacher finally told them to get back to work.

 

 

If that was not enough, during Gym, after stowing my clothes and stuff into a locker and sealing it, my PDA began replaying my commands for that day. As I ran back to the Locker, and freverently turned at the lock, I knew it was already too late, my voice belted out through the air holes in the lockers, venting like pressurized steam into the crowded locker room. over 100 boys erupted into peals of raucous laughter.

 

 

For months afterwards, as people passed me by they said a variety of clichéd Star Trek phrases, such as, "Beam me up Scotty" or other antiquated and thoroughly humiliating words. Nw, more than a year later, I purchased a new PDA, this time without Voice Recognition and I never use a calculator in math...

 

 

Note:

Of course, not all mishaps may be as thuroughly humiliating or coincidental as mine but here is the place to unload and have a laugh whenever you feel the need to. Check back occasionally, as there are more mishaps to come!

[Sam_SemaJ 0]

Okay, this one is not as fun, but it is a bit fun. My friend Karen is one of the few people who know i am a star trek fan. And thinks I'm dumb for being one. In my freshman year of high school, i took french, and like all foreign languages, the first thing we did was to pick a name. So any of you who are perceptive would accurately guess that i piked "Jean-Luc" as my name. Karen asked me why I picked it, and i whispered that i would tell her later. But then the teacher got to me for announcing our selections, and i said, "Jean-Luc". And then the Madame said, (really loud and enthusiastically) "Oh, Star Wars!...no, thats Star Trek, ok..." And moved on. As if that wasn't embarassing enough, Karen turned around just shaking her head at me...and I really had no way to respond. Its fun looking back. But not as fun as publically treating my PDA like a communicator. Though when driving ALONE, i tell my car to "all stop" or "full reverse". :D

[Dumbass 0]

Well I have 2 Star Trek-ish related mishaps, both involving my girlfriend at the time. She was an engineering major which made her a Star Trek fan by default.

 

One night I was picking her up to go to a party. I was invited in to her parent's house while she was still fixing herself up a half hour after she promised me she would be ready on time. When she came down the stairs her mom asked me "Doesn't she look hot?" I said "Yeah, she looks just like Tasha from Star Trek." (And she did, too.) Big mistake. She spent another half hour changing clothes. :D

 

Then there was the time we went to go see the Art of Star Wars exhibit at what was then the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I had her looking for the Klingons and finally had to confess the joke before she asked the tour guide in front of everyone. :)

Edited January 26, 2005 by Dumbass

[WxMurray 0]

Not nearly as good as the previous posts, but here it goes.

 

Tenth grade science: biology. The teacher was only around for the first day, as she was pregnant and practically giving birth in class. Anyway, the long-term substitute was a really cool guy. Everyone in class knew I was a Trekkie. One day we got off topic (that happened a lot) and he started talking about houses that have computers and you can tell it to turn on the lights, or play music and stuff like that. Without even looking at me, he told me to shut up, and continued on. Nobody understood why he told me to shut up.

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Mine happened many moons ago in 4th grade. We were to do projects in a social studies class. I chose the history of firearms. I had models of different weapons throughout history, mostly handguns. I also put as part of the exibit, weapons of the future. For that I had a model of a phaser from TOS. Got an A on the project, but had to live with "hey look, it's Mr Spock" for the longest time afterwards.

 

Zaphod,

"The few, the expendable, Starfleet security."

[Dumbass 0]

Got an A on the project, but had to live with "hey look, it's Mr Spock" for the longest time afterwards.

Yeah, wouldn't they be proud of you now. :D

[Captain Huff 0]

I work as a classical musician in real life. I only mention this because one night, after a big symphony concert, I'm at a reception for all the giant cheeses that fund our orchestra - The bank president, the grand poobah, all the important people with bucks. I of course am only there to shovel in as much free food and reception goodies as I can. The orchestra director is a long-time good friend of mine which is why I, a mere musician, gets invited to these things. Okay, I bring home-made wine when I go too.. Anyway, after the wine has been flowing for a good while, the director's wife, who has had a few too many, belts out in the middle of the crowded room in an attempt to make conversation, I think, "Teri likes Stah-Trek!!" (Boston accent). In slow motion horror, I turn to look at her to see if she really just said that, and of course, the whole room turns to look at me. She continues, "She plays a Stah-Trek game on the computah!" Like it's the single most important defining thing in my life...

 

The moral of the story: Don't ever tell people you work with what you do online, lol.

[Johnny Unitas 0]

Oh great, mishaps eh? Well, I have done one.

 

During my physics class, we had to design the Future as we think it will become. So I just drew a picture of a Starfleet in San Fransisco. Well, the teach thought it was so funny that she posted it on her wall, its been there all year long and I still get laughed at for it.

[Dumbass 0]

The moral of the story: Don't ever tell people you work with what you do online, lol.

Actually, our IT director at work is just as much of a Trekkie as I am, and has been into role-playing games for about 30 years and on-line role-playing games for about 10. So is his son. One day I showed him the "Never Graduate" picture and almost convinced him to check out the Academy. (For all I know he might be a cadet now.)

[aswe 0]

IM BACK ME ASWE SO GOOD TO BACK !!!!!!!! :) :o :) :D :)

[Plikiplaki 0]

None of them smiled. :D

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Yeah, wouldn't they be proud of you now. :)

:D Yep.

[Dumbass 0]

I was at an accounting conference in Nashville in summer 2003 (at the Gaylord Opryland hotel - beautiful place, if you ever get a chance to stay there I would highly recommend it) and one of the workshop presenters looked and sounded like a stocky version of Picard except with darker hair and a slightly different accent. He knew it too! When they were testing the wireless lapel microphone for his presentation he tapped the mic and said "acknowleged". This drew some chuckles from the Trekkies in the audience.

[Montague 0]

Thought I'd revive this topic :P

 

I've got a doozy of a mishap.

 

Last Christmas, my Uncle and parents conspired to get me alone at my cousin's house, for an innovative gift. They made random excuses to go to neighbors houses, etc. so when I got there, there was noone inside except for my Uncle, who was holding a phaser Rifle. Everyone knew that I was a Star Trek fan so I was expecting a parody gift of Star Trek eventually, so when I saw him holding it, I paid it no mind. 'See, its a real working phaser,' he said, I did not believe himso I grabbed it and said, 'so if I shoot you you'll be stunned?' He replied, 'If that's the setting at the time.' Just to indulge myself, I pointed it at him and quickly pressed and held the control surface. To my surprise, a concentrated green beam issued from the barrel of the rifle and hit my uncle squarely in the chest. His eyes went wide and he suddenly collapsed and began breathing in a shallow and disconnected way, I rushed over and tried to see if he was alright, but I could get nothing from him, I slapped him, stared at him, but I could get no reaction, not even a blink out of his still open eyes. I could think of nothing else, so I called an ambulance, thinking many things, either, he had a stroke or maybe, just maybe, I had a real phaser and had shot him. By the time that they got there, I had still not aroused even an iota of a reaction from my uncle, as the rushed to his side, he sprang up suddenly, and began laughing.

 

It turns out that he had purchased an artist's model of a phaser Rifle and put in five 9 volt batteries, a PDA running an LCARS-like laser control program, and a 20mW green laser. He got berated by the paramedics for scaring me and the false alarm, but eventually, they all laughed.

 

I was shellshocked, gripping the arms of a recliner shaking my head, when they left, but then I got up and gave my uncle a mock punch in the arm which was when my family walked in and laughed.

 

 

My 'Working' Phaser ^_^

 

 

It's beam.

[Seiben 0]

Dude, that's cool. I gotta get me one of those. ^_^

Edited June 2, 2005 by Seiben

[Montague 0]

$600 US ^_^

 

:P I could probably sell dozens of them on ebay, if I could find another laser like that one, with the visible beam and all.

Edited June 2, 2005 by Montague

[Dumbass 0]

Oh, man, your uncle must have tremendous self-control. I would have lost it long before the paramedics got called.

[Plikiplaki 0]

It's nice to see that people are still posting on my topic ^_^

 

I got an email saying someone posted, and I'd thought I'd take a look.

Edited June 2, 2005 by Plikiplaki