Now, the linguist who wanted to teach his infant toddler didn't really bother me. Especially considering the actual facts of that specific story. But this, without knowing anything but what's in the first 20 seconds of that video (which is all I could stomach to watch) is deplorable. This is using your child as a prop. What's different about this from the scores of America's Funniest Home Videos videos? The fact that the parents had to dress the child up to garner the affect of a toddler doing something "cute." It's fine if you capture an infant in their natural setting of adorableness, but to dress it up for the seemingly sole purpose of posting it to YouTube is... well... Ugh.

Then again, maybe I just internalize this abuse more because my parents never spoke any languages to me but English, but I did have a sailor outfit that my mother loved and forced me to wear until I was in pre-school. Talk about "ugh."

Big Star Trek fan, but can Child Services please intervene ASAP.

I have a feeling that instead of breeding the next generation of geeks, these people will instead create a generation of nerd-haters who will make Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds look like Urkel.

I may be a nerd, and a pretty high-ranking one, but the fact that you could love something so much that you would base not only your life but also your family's life around it is insane. Those cruel losers. Think about it! This kid has no chance in the social world now if his only chat-up line is "I was YouTube Klingon Baby. Wanna get to know?"

Star Trek fans can breed?!? That's great news for me! Where's my woman?

Don't turn your back on that kid mother-Klingon. If there is anything he will know, it is that revenge is a dish best served cold.

I guess the "Trekkies are Virgins" joke is not longer applicable in the 21st century.

Oh, wow. Yeah, this goes back to my belief that people should have licenses to breed. Yeesh. I really, really feel bad for that kid. My mother dressed me in terrible clothes when I was a child for the purpose of "cute" pictures, and though I tried, I was unable to find and burn all of them. Now it's just a matter of time before she discovers they can be posted online. Alas.

this just makes me relieved my parents arent nerds

puq'Hom! }}}:]

Anyone know what the kid is saying?

There was a key moment a few years back at a Carrie Fisher Q&A in which she said something to the effect of:
"Some of you are here because you love Star Wars. The rest of you are here because your parents made you love Star Wars. And for that, I am deeply, deeply sorry."

Pretty much sums this up.

I'll cast a vote for chilling out. It looks like a few minutes of goofy fun with a wig and an eyebrow pencil. Same dumb crap parents (both "nerd" and "normal") do with their babies every damn day. I'm thinking "boring afternoon" rather than "24/7 lifestyle."

Next to Halloween, this doesn't even rate. How many oblivious and uncomfortable infants did you see carted around the neighborhood dressed as princesses or stuffed into Tigger onesies with whiskers drawn on their faces?

Wish I had a video of the lady heading into THE FOURTH KIND in front of me -- carrying her baby girl with the pierced ears and cute widdle blush and lipstick. Here, baby, let's get you all dolled up so you can listen to people shriek and growl and blow their own heads off. Adorable...

It's... a baby in a silly costume. What am I not getting about this that makes it so horrible?

There should be a law against shit like this.

Meh, it's a wig and a couple of lines on the forehead.

If the kid has older siblings it will be put through worse than this on a daily basis (I speak from experience as a youngest child)

The kid looks happy enough and you can *see* it's real hair, so no it wasn't shaved.

is the baby really speaking klingon? Because it just sounded like typical baby sounds to me.