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Trekkers strike!

Via Look at His Butt! (a very funny but generally NSFW blog dedicated to The Shatner) comes the news that LAist has photos of the writer’s strike in LA, where lots of folks associated from Trek were walking the line. You’ll see lots of familiar faces there, including a certain Man Crush…

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December 12th, 2007 2:30 PM by Phil Plait in Cool stuff | 9 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

9 Responses to “Trekkers strike!”

  1. 1.   Moose Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    Who’s the older fellow in the shot under Spiner and above the one with the sign about not “killing redshirts”? I don’t recognize him, and for some reason, I think I should.

  2. 2.   Moose Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    Oh. Harlan Ellison. Never mind. I should have checked the image properties first.

  3. 3.   Christian X Burnham Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Without writers we would (obviously) have no science fiction. It’s a pain to wait extra months for Battlestar Galactica etc. but I hope the writers battle through and win. I’m happy to see them fight for what they deserve in royalties.

  4. 4.   txjak Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    FYI, John Scalzi has a post up featuring Wil Wheaton here:

    A Month of Writers, Day Ten: Wil Wheaton
    http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=200

  5. 5.   Michael Lonergan Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Unfortunately if the strike goes any longer, Battlestar won’t be coming back, as NBC, parent company of Sci-Fi channel, is getting ready to ax it.

  6. 6.   Jack Hagerty Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    Moose says: “Who’s the older fellow in the shot under Spiner and above the one with the sign about not “killing redshirts”? I don’t recognize him, and for some reason, I think I should.”

    Harlon Ellison?

    - Jack

  7. 7.   Murff Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 5:05 am

    Looks like your “man-crush” needs to hit the gym…

  8. 8.   Astronomy » Blog Archive » astronomy news [2007-12-12 22:57:52] Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    [...] Trekkers strike! By The Bad Astronomer (a very funny but generally NSFW blog dedicated to The Shatner) comes the news that LAist has photos of the writer’s strike in LA, where lots of folks associated from Trek were walking the line. You’ll see lots of familiar faces there, … Bad Astronomy Blog – http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog [...]

  9. 9.   mike burkhart Says:
    December 14th, 2007 at 5:35 am

    They are just waiting for scote to beem em up but hes busy dealing with tribles and kilngons

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