09.07.12

Google Fuxor

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 9:21 am by George Smith

Perfectly raised and trained for the Culture of Lickspittle are people who humor the androids of Google way too much.

This excerpt from an interview with Google’s Ryan Germick on today’s 46th anniversary of Star Trek doodle:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Did you watch Star Trek growing up?
RYAN GERMICK: I did, yes. I’m early 30s and I grew up watching the original series with my dad, and I kind of realized, the guys on the Enterprise were like family friends to me …

If he’s actually in his early thirties:

(31,32 or 33) – 46 = negative number in teens

I watched the original series, not reruns. I was ten when it started.

Google did not invent the world, or the vaccines for smallpox or polio, but we’re stuck with how they order it for the time being.

There is a thing Google android Ryan Germick got right, and it’s the most obvious:

[It] was a vision for the future. I think it was also that it was multicultural, pro-science, and full of curiosity and passion. I think like a lot of good science-fiction, it sort of says a lot about its present era. We can really appreciate what Star Trek did in its time. As an adult, you can appreciate how progressive it was. You learned to be compassionate towards all kinds of people — even alien creatures …

Originally, androids were instruments of villains, primarily the Leader, in Marvel Comics.

Not something made by Google, which allowed me to find this copy of the cover.

This particular Marvel Comic was published in 1964, two years before the debut of the original Star Trek.

I had a copy. Today it’s worth 59 bucks on eBay. My mom threw it out along with all my Marvels, one day when I was away in college.

Eventually, she threw out everything. She had issues.

2 Comments

  1. Darth Cuddles said,

    September 7, 2012 at 10:55 am

    Presumably when he said ‘original series’ he meant the Capt. Kirk series rather than the Capt. Picard or Capt. Janeway or Capt. Forgettable series i.e. “I watched reruns of the Capt. Kirk version of Star Trek with my dad” The original series, not the original broadcasts of the original series.

  2. George Smith said,

    September 7, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    Yep. A better journalist/interviewer would’ve gently walked him back over it or rewritten it as a paraphrased section to avoid the trivial gaffe. At least that’s what I would’ve done when I was at a newspaper pre web..