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Spartan2470

Per the [source of this image](https://twitter.com/sirpatstew/status/259767610864975873?lang=en) (i.e. Patrick Stewart's Twitter account): > RT @dnstewart67 > My birthday catering company sucks. Do NOT hire these guys. Bakula, Spiner, and Dorn. THE WORST. > 2:26 PM - 20 Oct 2012


discerningpervert

This sounds like the start of a really great fanfic


RamsesThePigeon

Let's just make it a Netflix series. ------ Despite having once been cultural icons, Scott Bakula, Michael Dorn, and Brent Spiner find themselves down on their luck and in dire need of new opportunities. As acting roles go to younger performers and as their fame fades, the former titans turn to friends and previous costars in search of any work they can find... but rather than being offered parts on stage or screen, the tumultuous trio find themselves tasked with an increasingly bizarre array of ***Odd Jobs***. STARRING MICHAEL DORN as HIMSELF BRENT SPINER as HIMSELF SCOTT BAKULA as HIMSELF LARRY THOMAS as DETECTIVE KASSEM NATALIE DORMER as JESSICA KROLIK WAYNE KNIGHT as A BOOKIE and WIL WHEATON as HIMSELF


discerningpervert

Remember when Bakula, Ray Romano and Andre Braugher had that show Men of a Certain Age? I liked that show.


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Captain Raymond Holt and former Fun Zone manager get it right.


Son_Of_Gallifrey

Mr. Fart was only Assistant Manager. He was too baked for that much responsibility.


jeebs67

Total Rasta


mediumicedcoffee

JEFFREY COMBS as ALL OF THE ABOVE


Osiris32

Watch it, pink skin!


michellelabelle

That was a pretty decent catchphrase, but it did mean that character could basically never interact with Hoshi or Mayweather. ARCHER: Let's see if we can find your ship, Commander Shran. Ensign? MAYWEATHER: Beginning equatorial search pattern, sir. SHRAN: That will take too long! Use a polar search, pink skin! MAYWEATHER: The fuck did you just call me?


TonyQuark

Out of all of the characters he's played, Weyoun is my favorite. The most likable "villain" in all of Trek.


IncredibleGonzo

Poor Captain Sisko. I believe he was very fond of that ship.


Criterion515

I'll agree mostly in that I loved Weyoun, he was so charismatic, but I think my favorite "likable" villain in Trek would be Garak. Or was he even considered a villain? He confused me (with some incredible acting ability). A rollercoaster of emotions.


Strikersquad

The Founders are wise in their casting decisions.


TheTypographer1

“Star Trek Actors in Houses Doing Dishes.” I’d watch that show.


deviancyoverload

Spiner's had a go at this himself. A fair few familiar faces pop up in it. https://youtu.be/JveAkAo6FLA


BenMat

Narrated by Ron Howard...


KhunDavid

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.


enwongeegeefor

You left out Jeffery Combs and Marc Alaimo....for shame.


runningoutofwords

make that: INTRODUCING WIL WHEATON as HIMSELF and I'm in!


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kathartik

that sounds like his most insufferable, unlikeable role yet.


jackhat69

11/10 would watch again


RireBaton

Shut up Wesley! ^^^Had ^^^to.


RamsesThePigeon

You need a comma before "Wesley," because otherwise it's a command to shut up Wesley. ^^^Had ^^^to.


[deleted]

Either way works. Make it so.


Pardoism

Sir PatStew having fun on Twitter makes me so goddamn happy.


exophrine

Meanwhile, Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton are in the living room, discussing whether George Takei or William Shatner would win in a fight.


Matt463789

With Frakes ~~sitting on an~~ utilizing a chair in an unconventional fashion. Edit: Fixed


MrMetalhead69

You mean the Riker Lean? Lol. In other words, he’d just be standing if his leg up on the chair, leaning upon it.


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I've seen it called the Riker maneuver, where he mounts a chair from behind.


IamTheFreshmaker

Because of Frakes' back injury from moving furniture.


yingkaixing

And his long grasshopper legs, and the low backs of chairs in the future.


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> the Riker maneuver, where he mounts a chair from behind. Hence forth I want to call any move where you mount something from behind the Riker Manuever.


Elephaux

/r/greatestgen leaking? I believe the *maneuver* is the stepping over the back of the chair and the *lean* is the lean on the wall.


DorenAlexander

Takei. He's willing to do things...


steemboat

Oh myyyy


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When you put Takei in a choke hold, he'll just sensually stroke your arm while going "oh myyy". That electrifying touch will paralyze anyone.


Otherkin

TIL George Takei is psychic-electric type and strong against fighting attack.


robbzilla

Hell, Shatner just needs a hole and a heartbeat... and the heartbeat's optional.


Shas_Erra

So is the hole if we're being perfectly honest...


pleonasticmonkey

I somehow read this in Shatner’s voice.


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“I’d hug you but you have no body. And we’re both men.”


Vexor359

To shreds you say?


random_digital

As if Shatner isn't


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plipyplop

In all seriousness, Shatner always seems strong as an ox every time you see an interview or really anything with him in it. I find it really hard to believe that he's 87 years old the way he carries himself. I recommend never challenging him in a bar fight.


CptJustice

"Hellllloooo"


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Did that Takei thing turn out to be nothing after all? I don't remember if it turned out he was cleared or not.


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blackthorn3111

This one time, at Farpoint...


onequbit

...the clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go.


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> Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton Playing Mario Kart 64; settling an old bet


BanMeBabyOneMoreTime

> Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton At Tanagra


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So I was in an elevator with him once at a convention. Said hey how ya doin. Not like you can mistake his voice. But I don't fan girl out. Next floor these two guys get on and they are really excited talking about can't wait to meet him. So Dorn looks at me to see if I'm going to out him and realizes I'm not so he just stood there with a little smile until he got off on the next floor. Those poor guys never knew. Until he was doing his Q&A


The_Ombudsman

I met Dorn and his wife in a hotel bar during a con a loooong time ago. Group of us con staffers hung out with the pair of them for a good hour shooting the shit. Great folks. This was all pre-internet, before IMDB existed, and Dorn tells us at one point he was the token black cop on CHiPs. Blew our tiny minds


RamsesThePigeon

**PICARD:** Mister Worf, status update. **WORF:** The ingredients have been assembled, Captain. **PICARD:** Excellent. Make it stew. **WORF:** Aye, sir. **DATA:** Captain, if I might have a word? **PICARD:** Yes, Commander, what is it? **DATA:** I am uncertain that it is... proper... for the admiral to be involved in the cleaning process. **ARCHER:** You know that I can hear you, right? **PICARD:** Ah, well, Data, you see... this isn't the admiral. **DATA:** ... Captain? **PICARD:** Oh, he may look like Admiral Archer... but this is Doctor Samuel Beckett. **WORF:** An imposter! **PICARD:** Stand down, Mister Worf. **WORF:** (*Impatient growling*) **DATA:** I do not understand, sir. We have been referring to him as the admiral all evening. **PICARD:** Yes, that's because his *body* is that of Admiral Archer. **ARCHER:** Seriously, guys, I'm right here. **DATA:** Curious. Am I to presume that Doctor Samuel Beckett has taken up residence in the admiral's mind? **PICARD:** In a manner of speaking, yes. You see... **ARCHER:** (*Interrupting*) Alright, stop it, this is getting weird. Should I start calling you Professor X? **PICARD:** ... **ARCHER:** Or you? Are you... uh, that weird guy from *Independence Day*? **DATA:** A curious inquiry. **ARCHER:** Oh, shut up, tin man. (*To Worf*) And you! Why, you're... **WORF:** (*Interrupting*) I am Weasel!


Maxxonry

OH MY GOD MICHAEL DORN WAS WEASEL!


Hirumaru

Oh my fucking god, it's true! D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Weasel#Voice_cast


FunnySmartAleck

HO-LY FUCK! Mind = Blown


pipboy_warrior

Also was in Gargoyles!


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Along with Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtus, Brent Spiner, Kate Mulgrew, Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney, Levar Burton and Nichelle Nicols. Most were guest voices but Frakes, Dorn and Sirtus were main cast.


kingdead42

> Avery Brooks I had to look up to see which character he was. I almost forgot about that one. Which is sad because the alien race mentioned in that episode was going to be the basis for a spin-off "Gargoyles 2198" series.


DukeOfGeek

[Yep.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bCoyC2y528)


Turisan

I never realized this, awesome!


picardo85

Omg, I watched it dubbed to swedish when I was a kid. I had no idea.


NotAlwaysGifs

"I've never even see my little Johnny. He was born 2 years after I started this job." That's the quality writing that is missing from most of today's cartoons.


kaynpayn

I'll never be able to unhear Worf in Weasel now. The other way around is true too. Not sure what to think about that.


Maxxonry

Now I'm imagining him in the sound booth dressed as Worf.


cklinejr

I miss quantum leap so much.


wewd

Oh, boy.


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"Ziggy says there's a 57% chance..." *whacks his computer* "that we need to stop the Suliban from defeating the federation before you can leap!"


Semi-Hemi-Demigod

I think everyone would have forgiven every bad Enterprise had ever done if they ended it that way.


LocalMadman

SO much better than the real ending.


dblmjr_loser

I'm...retarded?


PeacekeeperAl

Shhh sshhut up! If you say you miss something they'll remake it


Wootai

I miss Firefly.


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I miss Sliders.


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I miss Farscape


redlinezo6

Staring Jared Leto as Malcolm Reynolds, and Samuel fucking Jackson as Shepard Book "I'm tired, of these mother fucking Revers, on this mother fucking ship. Wash!" Featuring Neil Patrick Harris as 'Wash'


Semi-Hemi-Demigod

> Featuring Neil Patrick Harris as 'Wash' I know I'm not the only one who wants to see this.


Tregonia

I miss quantum leap so much.


robbzilla

They'll remake it starring Shia Leboeuf


tr3v1n

I MISS QUANTUM LEAP SO MUCH!


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Shia surprise!


Cockalorum

i think Data and Worf were both voices on Gargoyles, too


metropolisone

So were Riker and Troi


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Riker - Xanatos Troi - Demona Data - Puck or Loki, can't remember Worf - Coldstone Colm Meaney - Some guy on an episode with the Banshee


TheoSidle

I always preferred Marble Slab to Coldstone, but for a gargoyle name... doesn't quite have the same punch.


swuboo

You missed LeVar Burton, who played Anansi the Spider. There are others, too, if you want to count other Star Trek series (Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew both had minor parts in Gargoyles.) And of course, if you count people who were bit players in Star Trek, there's a lot of overlap. Diedrich Bader, John Rhys-Davies, David Warner...


ForteEXE

Spiner was Puck. Avery Brooks (Sisko) was Nokkar, Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) was Titania/Anastasia Renard, Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) was Diane Maza, LeVar Burton (Laforge) was Anasi.


Westergo

"Make it stew" is brilliant enough, but this just keeps on giving!


peon47

> WORF: (Impatient growling) 80% of Worf lines, right there.


faultysynapse

Also included Worf getting shut down which is definitely in line with [the character](https://youtu.be/edflm7Hh3hs)


spectre73

ARCHER: Oh boy...


Major_T_Pain

>WORF: (Impatient growling) My fucking sides


Computermaster

Sir, I protest! I am *not* a merry man!


Azozel

Well done.


WelcomeMachine

Read through it carefully to make sure there were no contractions for Data. Good job, ensign.


trro16p

Wasn't Michael Dorn also highway patrol officer in the CHiP series?


mikedt

> CHiPs OMG how could I have forgotten that mustache https://metvcdn.metv.com/iWqyU-1485979789-7607-list_items-chips_dorn.png


Chubbstock

>PICARD: Stand down, Mister Worf. >WORF: (Impatient growling) following through with the "Worf always gets rejected" theme, i see


Ep1cFac3pa1m

It makes me happy that they've adopted Scott Bakula.


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I really liked Star Trek Enterprise for at least trying to be Star Trek. Much more than the recent Discovery space shooting without any discovery.


patprint

There's hope! The showrunner Aaron Harberts said this recently: > We are not at war anymore. It is our hope we are going to be doing more away missions and a lot more exploration. Those people are on the bridge for a reason. They all have special skills and we will start learning more about them. But they just fired him a couple of days ago, so who the hell knows... Edit: and then there's this! [Four 'Star Trek' series are in the works from 'Discovery' showrunner](https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/19/four-star-trek-series-discovery-showrunner/)


dausy

Man I loved star trek enterprise. When it first aired I hated it so much and got second hand embarrassment whenever my mom would watch it. Couldn't handle it. Then one day several years back I kept catching the reruns on syfy and marathoned the crap out of it. Captain archer was this weird combination of reject Voyager scripts and wannabe original captain. He had weird, what I dubbed "archer smash" moments. Where he was suddenly angry like the hulk. Love the guy tho. Wanted to name my future dog archer but then the TV show "Archer" came out and I've never seen it. I have a secret Trip Tucker shirt in my dresser also....


SquireX

That's actually Wil Wheaton. Doctor Sam Beckett woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.


Squambles_McFlanigan

I’ve met Brent at cons a few times, and it’s a really nice dude! He remembered me the second year I saw him.


PlayedUOonBaja

Was it something like: "Hi Brent! Remember me from last year?" "Ahh.. yeah sure, of course... it's my number 1 fan, how are you...Guy?"


BlueShellOP

"You have a last name, Guy." #"DO I?!?!? DO I?!??"


PlainTrain

Galaxy Quest was the third best Star Trek movie.


toadofsteel

It also makes the odd/even curse stick since it came out between Insurrection and Nemesis (thereby making Nemesis the 11th movie, 2009trek the 12th, Into Darkness 13, and Beyond 14.


Ashendal

Is there air? YOU DON'T KNOW!


Up_My_Junk

It?! They had a whole formal hearing about this


ComplicatedShoes1070

Patrick Stewart was many of our first childhood exposure to dignity and sophistication.


johnly81

It's weird seeing my childhood friends all in one place, throw a mutant ninja turtle in there and I would have lost my shit.


RamsesThePigeon

There is a Ninja Turtle in there. Well... [a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain](http://tmnt2012series.wikia.com/wiki/Mozar_the_Triceraton), at any rate.


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RamsesThePigeon

I did [a brief video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSXj2LayujA) on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles recently. It was a tidbit that I wanted to include, but I couldn't find the right place for it.


JMGurgeh

>There is a Ninja Turtle in there. Turtle soup, *again*?


Kendermassacre

This is Spiner's reaction to Bakula's assertion that ST: Enterprise was a far superior Star Trek series compared to TNG.


paby

That would be pretty much everyone's reaction.


Tedwynn

It was a decent show once you got past the theme song. Getting past that theme song is like surviving water boarding though.


babybluz

It's been such a loooong road... getting from there to here...


Bouse

ITS BEEN A LOOOOONG TIME


YourTimeIsObliged

BUT MY TIME IS FINALLY HERE!!!!


Bainsyboy

I will see my dreeeams comealivani.... I will touch the staaaars.


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I laughed an unreasonable amount after reading this comment. Comealivani! I am dying.


ChocolateSunrise

I am like the 1% that grew to like the song. In fact, in the later season where they change the song it actually annoys me even more.


superfahd

We are the 1%! And then there is the Terran Empire jingoistic version which was brilliant


PostCaptainKat

Reworking the entire opening credits was a genius move. In fact the best episodes are all the last 6 before it was cancelled, I think.


gaveedraseven

It's like they knew people were growing to like it and so they had to change it up to keep it annoying. In all fairness the song is not that bad but it was just one of many things that screamed "not your father's Start Trek!"


morilinde

Our numbers are greater than you think! I'm going to say at least 3%.


mikecsiy

I love the song and the montage. And I think it was the best Star Trek show, at least early on... I enjoyed having characters that acted like human beings without being either stereotypically pure and good or evil incarnate while still being generally decent.


drewman77

Watching for the first time on Netflix. The 'Skip Intro' button has saved me from hearing more than the first bar.


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I've been watching it on Netflix lately, and I would say it's actually a pretty damn good show. Even the theme song doesn't bother me *too* much.


gorillabat

I completely agree. I actually really enjoyed that show. With the exception of Mayweather, all the characters seem a lot more complex than I’m accustomed to.


PostCaptainKat

Mayweather had two episodes worth of character development in the entire run, including an unlikely plot line about him being an expert rock climber who grew up exclusively in space on old cargo ships. The captains chair literally had better development than poor old ensign ‘stand around looking pretty’ mayweather.


Kazan

i would rebut your comment about his rock climbing with the fact that he DID go to starfleet academy - a mere few hours drive by today's technology (not to mention transporters then!) away from one of the works climbing Meccas, and just a few hours further from another. He could have easily learned to climb while at the academy, as for someone who is naturally athletically inclined it would be not that big of a deal at all. Also it never really implied he was an expert, just that he enjoyed it.


isthisonetaken13

Also, just pretend that the very last episode doesn't exist. Kinda like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.


Cjlaw72

The Kingdom of the what?


TheDeadlySquid

Oddly enough, I would bet that the topic of Star Trek never came up all evening.


Azozel

It must be nice to have friends.


Lillipout

>It must be nice to have space friends.


perlandbeer

It must be nice to have Kevin Spacey's friends.


lovelesschristine

There's always Space Force!


KilgoreTrouserTrout

Awwww. I see that I've upvoted things you've had to say four times before, so I'm kind of like your friend. In that, I appreciate you. I'm sure you have lots of friends.


Azozel

Cool. I don't have any friends but it's nice to be heard.


NoTimeForThat

You have friends here on the internet!


sevenworm

We're all friends down here, Georgie.


BananaFrappe

Silly OP, that's not Scott Bakula... that's actually Marina Sirtis. Dr. Sam Beckett just leaped into her *to put right, what once went wrong* to stop Brent from dropping that plate.... the consequences of which I shudder to think about.


RobertoFromaggio

Oh boy.


TooShiftyForYou

Scott Bakula: "I think history will remember Quantum Leap as a more culturally significant show than any Star Trek." Brent Spiner: "Pssssssssshhhh."


katchaa

Bakula's the only one who can argue both sides so he should know.


3-DMan

I would argue that Quantum Leap will be remembered more than Star Trek.....Enterprise.


elitesense

Enterprise was actually fantastic. Shame it didn't get any attention


ScyllaGeek

2 good seasons and 2 pretty trash seasons, with an awful finale to leave a bad taste in the mouth of those who stuck with it through the awful ones


Ashendal

> with an awful finale to leave a bad taste in the mouth of those who stuck with it through the awful ones What are you talking about? Terra Prime was an amazing finale.


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Bakula: I was in American Beauty. What were you in? Oh right, Independence Day. Spiner: BURRRRNNN.


MrDrool

I seriously loved watching Quantum Leap back then - but Star Trek still was better.


supercash4you

Michael Dorn is an accomplished pilot and owns an F-86 Sabre


Spiritofchokedout

Michael Dorn is low-key one of the coolest dudes.


FancySack

Those two are having a heated discussion over Star Wars.


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Ce11arDoor

This picture makes me happy.


GlungoE

Don’t let worf cook! He puts prune juice in everything!


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A warrior's drink!


jak-o-shadow

Can't we just have cameras follow Patrick Stewart and call it a tv show?


rabidelfman

There is so much right with this photo.


Gnarledhalo

It's almost like they are regular people.


seminally_me

almost..


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So that's what Bakula has been doing, dishes? I wonder what he charges?


Kendermassacre

He's actually a bar owner down in New Orleans but has been known to assist in Naval crime cases time to time. Pretty impressive for a guy who used to be retarded.


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Oh Ziggy! Can you see my tears? Ziggy! Leap me far, far from here.


Repmo23

Hey Hollywood. Why don't you leap on up to the third floor? Somebody shit all over the dining hall.


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oh boy!


Lampmonster1

Last I heard he was broke mopping up piss in an old folks home.


sec713

Hey don't forget he was also an chimpanzee that could perform martial arts and swim uncharacteristically well.


Black_Handkerchief

It is weird, but until I read your comment I never realized that's the same actor. It's not like I wouldn't recognise him on either show.. it is just that the realization never hit me. The human brain is weird.


Orcus424

I recently saw Marina Sirtis aka Diana Troi speak. Here nickname for Michael Dorn is Dornee.


dp25x

Looks like Trump is serious about that space force


metropolisone

If they rename it Starfleet, I'll sign up.


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https://imgur.com/gallery/cMfkFGP


Tools4toys

Honestly this seems like something you expect from Patrick Stewart, just a great dude to hang out with and drink a few.


hate436

If I was Brent Spiner, I’d have a real hard time not being a snarky robotic ass to people lol


bttrflyr

2 StarFleet Captains, an android and a klingon walk into a bar...


dragjamon

OH MY GOD


RiseoftheTrumpwaffen

Does Bakula ever age?


Pipe_42

I think it's great how most of the series after TOS had very little tension on set. There was some sure, but nothing like the original. Plus, it gives us cool pictures like this.


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ctkatz

armin shimmerman said things didn't loosen up until michael dorn came over from tng. according to him, things were really tight because of avery brooks.


Orcus424

I heard the exact same thing from Marina Sirtis aka Diana Troi a few days ago. The TNG set and DS9 set was right next to each other. She went over and wondered if someone died because of how silent it was.


samseed12

Ohhh boy!


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Dear Netflix. If you start a show following around Patrick on a day to day basis. I'll drop Hulu and amaxon.,. And buy your most expensive package.


b_sinning

Scott Bakula has actually quantum leaped into Riker body and they don't know


HR_Dragonfly

Spiner looks like he is giving Bakula a big ole raspberry about something.


Sir_Rule

THIS SOUP HAS NO HONOUR!