USS Enterprise Rules, USS Kelvin Drools
If you’ve seen this my apologies, but I figured not everyone knew that there’s a big sci-fi nerdapalooza in Europe called Fedcon, and that the recent 18th edition got its own Star Trek CG cartoon. Made by Tobias Richter, the short shows the USS Kelvin inexplicably traveling through Saturn’s rings — when it would have been advisable and very easy to just go around — when it’s attacked by ships (are they Klingon? Romulan? Please let me know) and then the Kelvin just cries and wets itself metaphorically until the new Enterprise comes in and saves its ass. Even if it’s a little goofy, it looks damn fine. Enjoy.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.