Captain Kirk vs the Seattle Klingons
First off, Happy Birthday Dad, I made this comic for you. I didn’t appreciate or understand Trek much when I watched them with you as a child, but they stuck with me and without all those hours watching the original series finally sort of paid off.
Some Washington fans have taken to calling Kirk Cousins “Captain Kirk”. I approve of this nickname. As stated above, I used to watch episodes of the Original Series as a kid with my Dad. He had about half the series on VHS tape and we’d watch certain ones a lot. I remember a lot of those episodes by heart, although I recently rediscovered it on Netflix and I’m getting a far bigger appreciation for what the show was doing. I also see why Dad watched certain episodes and not others. As I write this in the background I have an episode going where lava monsters from a magma planet resurrect Abe Lincoln and make Abe, Kirk and Spock fight bad guys from history for “teaching purposes”. I can’t imagine why this episode isn’t considered a classic. When I saw Washington playing Seattle this weekend, I couldn’t help but think of Star Trek for some reason, so I made this.
Anyway, I’m a nerd, have a nice day.
Been reading these comics for some time now, without ever commenting, so heres a first. This is probably the best comic yet!
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Though I was hoping for more people getting chucked around the bridge of the USS ENTERPRISE.
I appreciate TOS episodes when I can catch them; you can definitely see what they were going for and what they hoped the show would be, and it doesn’t have the moral turgidness that made up TNG. DS9 had lots of great moments as well, but it’s easily the least Star Trek-y of the all the Star Treks. Voyager and Enterprise both sucked.
Never bothered watching Voyager. Saw a few episodes and said “this looks terrible”. DS9 I still haven’t gotten to but it looks great and I hear good things, Enterprise was terrible and of course TNG is great.
TOS is still my favorite. It’s far from perfect but there is so much charm in it.
I respect TOS for its groundbreaking influence, but purely in terms of the overall quality of writing, I think DS9 was the best. Like any long-runner, it had more than its share of bad episodes and bad plot decisions, but overall the series was outstanding.
The ironic thing about TNG was that it only became great once the keys were taken away from Roddenberry starting in S3. S1-S2 remains some of the worst television ever made.
There are a couple of really good Voyager episodes (on par with TNG), but yeah, most of them are crap. A big part of the problem was inconsistent writing (different writers had different ideas and they didn’t always mix), leading to every writer writing in different tendencies into the characters, to the point that some of the fanboys that make me look normal came up with the idea that Janeway was actually schizophrenic.
With regards to DS9, it’s actually a good show (minus a few bad episodes here and there), but it was a show extremely ahead of its time. It’s actually a show that is best watched via binging the entire show (the way you would Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad), but it was produced in the 90s. If DS9 were made today, everyone would call it Game of Thrones in Space.
Yay! I’m a football loving and playing nerd who loves Star Trek too! Though Picard is the better and less irresponsible captain, nothing quite beaths the charm of Captain Kirk and his band of idiots roving through the galaxy where no man had gone before. Or whatever Shatner said.
Emeny? Intentional misspelling or no?
Unintentional. I have a tendency to finish the fancier comics in early morning hours and instead of proofreading I go to bed. Should be fixed now.
If you ever feel like procrastinating, go to SFDebris.com and start watching the Star Trek reviews. Or, really, any of his reviews. They are utterly hilarious and brilliant.
HAHAHA the last panel totally makes it
“Reciving”? Another purposefully misspelling?
Nah, just a 2:30am failure to proofread
I find the Photon Orakpos funny and disturbing.
Can this become a recurring thing for the Redskins even if Captain Kirk doesn’t play? Please?
As both a Seahawks fan and a massive Trek fan, I highly approve of the Seahawks being Klingons. My greatest dream now is to see the LoB all done up as Klingons with browridges and everything, carrying Bat’leths and generally being awesome.
They can never be awesome until they drop that idiotic Legion of Boom nickname. It is literally the most horrible, forced nickname in football history. Legion of Doom? Fantastic. Legion of Boom? So incredibly tryhard. The only city that could ever embrace it is one so faireweather that anything remotely associated with the team (in a winning year, and only in a winning year) is sacrosanct and beyond reproach.
It’s horrible.
Stop liking what I don’t like, etc…
You a big dummy
Just now started calling him Captain Kirk? Dave, any sports player with the name Kirk is called Captain Kirk, it’s one of the unwritten rules of sports
Sherman has a lot of personality. He should be some kind of antagonist, but he’s playing mediocre that nobody should worry cX
*Hipster glasses* I’ve been doing Captain Kirk jokes since 2013.
Can you make the Philadelphia Romulans? Overly emotional people, highly passive-aggressive or in many cases just plain aggressive, and love shitty shades of green.
i read meriweatherulu as a knockoff of cthulu, like some sort of orwellian superweapon.
So much packed into one comic I’m just exploding with all of these jokes
Griffin needs more time
Morris recieving
Orakpo missiles
Merited ther helmet hits
Beats headphones
And the end result of captain Kurt being pummeled
Meriweather