No Arabs on 'Star Trek?' (ROTFL!!!)

ChronWatch ^ | 29 September 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

The Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations had just finished giving a speech, and walked out into the lobby where he met President Bush.

They shook hands, and as they walked the Iranian said, ''You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America.''

President Bush said, "Well, anything I can do to help you, I will."

The Iranian whispered: ''My son watches this show 'Star Trek' and in it there is Chekhov who is Russian, Scotty who is Scottish, Uhura who is Black, and Sulu who is Chinese, but no Arabs. My son is very upset and doesn't understand why there aren't any Iranians, Syrians, or Iraqis on "Star Trek."

President Bush laughed, leaned toward the Iranian ambassador, and whispered: ''It's because it takes place in the future.''

[Aussie Dasher]

Gotta love it!!!

[DCBryan1]

In the real 23rd Century, Muslims will have made great strides. They should have running water and balthrooms by then.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

My glasses fell of my face...funny

[Lonestar_50]

What BS...Iranians are Persian.

[Shimmer128]

Oh so what. Change the wording then. It's funny

[Tamar1973]

Is this serious or something picked up from scrappleface?

[mountn man]

beat me by 2 minutes

[Cobra64]

An oldie but a goody.

[LC HOGHEAD]

ROFLMFAOPIMP

[operation clinton cleanup]

Little known fact, Ensign Abdulah Akbhar drove the shuttle craft.. on the night shift.

[freedumb2003]

OMG!! I am LMAOROTF!!!

[proud_yank]

I think if this were serious, the press would have spun it to make President Bush look like a klansman. You know, the group Robert Byrd was involved in for many years?

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

Ok...I give

what does ROFLMFAOPIMP mean?

[TheSpaceCoyote]

Sure there were ...

[kalee]

ping

[Jet Jaguar]

So 60's

The new episodes have a cat named Bashir. (a doctor, not a redshirt)

[proud_yank]

Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Friggin' Arse Off And Peeing In My Pants.

[proud_yank]

funny ping

[gridlock]

Serioiusly, folks. Unless these idiots are put back in their box, there will be no streamlined, peaceful, progressive Star Trek future. As the World gets more complicated and interconnected, one a$$hole with a bomb can undo the life's work of hundreds or thousands of men in and instant. The smallest minority of people who are so twisted that they think blowing up themselves and others is a good idea thus have an ability to check progress of the World at large.

Unless the numbers of such a$$holes is brutally minimized, further progress is going to get much more difficult. Since they don't respond to the carrot, in means were going to have to give them the stick... Big Time.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

ROFLMFAOPIMP

[Mr. Brightside]

Maybe Captain Kirk suspected they might crash the Starship Enterprise into the mother ship.

[isom35]

didnt Nomad kill a crewman that was kinda arab or middle eastern? or maybe the guy lived hell I cant remember.

[KevinDavis]

[Horatio Gates]

LOL. Could also rub it in that "Khan" Noonien Singh also ruled the middle east in the future

[butternut_squash_bisque]

An *oldie but a goodie*, IIRC, IMO.

[muawiyah]

Khan was from Turkministan, or maybe Tadjikistan, but certainly not Persia.

[ARE SOLE]

To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
... there was a FR thread about how a Muslim would know where to face to pray in orbit.

Muslim in orbit? Reminds me of the joke:

"Why are there no Muslims on Star Trek?"
Answer: Because it's in the future.

32 posted on 09/24/2006 12:09:04 PM PDT by ARE SOLE

[ThomasThomas]

From the rest of the story.

President Bush laughed, leaned toward the Iranian ambassador, and whispered: ''It's because it takes place in the future.''

[ansel12]

The newer Star Trek corrected this omission of Islam, by introducing the Borg.

[Don Carlos]

Wouldn't bet on that. Those old bombsight poopers are considered modern "plumbing" today. It'll be tough to improve on them, since they see no need.

'Sides, all their engineering talent is tied up making bombs. ;~)

[Tallguy]

Food replicators put your neighborhood 7-eleven out of business long before the Federation made a move into deep-space. This is my theory as to why there aren't Muslims on Star Trek.

[hsalaw]

And, he was a bad guy who, after making trouble for everyone, died.

[operation clinton cleanup]

That and bad temperament and intolerance caused all muslims to wash out of Star Fleet Academy in the first semester.

[Kuksool]

In ST: Deep Space Nine, there was a character named Dr. Julian Bashir. The actual actor is Sudanese/Pakistani who lived in England.

[Hugin]

In the year 2179, after 200 years of non-stop Jihadi terrorism, all the non-Muslim people of the world had had enough. They formed the Great Anti-Islamic Alliance and combined all their armed armed forces aginst the Sand-Nazis. They obliterated every mosque on earth, extermiated every Muslim, and nuked Mecca into a smoking crater. That effectevely ended all war on earth.

[Holicheese]

Actually, Ensign Akbar was one of those chumps in the red short that goes down on the landing party with Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and Chekov. You know he will die within 5 minutes of setting foot on the planet.
"Damn it Jim, I am only a country doctor, not God!"

[unspun]

Really, a joke about the annihilation of a race isn't funny.

[RedCell]

True dat! Resistance is "few-tile".

[freedumb2003]

Really, a joke about the annihilation of a race isn't funny.

But the absence of a moon-worshipping religion that follows a pedophile follower of Satan (may he burn in Hell forever between 2 pigs) -- THAT's funny.

[NCC-1701]

There has been an Iranian born person in space. Anousheh Ansari just landed after a ten day trip to the International Space station.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Really, a joke about the annihilation of a race isn't funny.

Your right. Wiping out infidels is no laughing matter.

[JamesP81]

The new episodes have a cat named Bashir. (a doctor, not a redshirt)

Actually, I always thought the Cardassians as a race were intended to be quasi-arab. Just look at the DS9 story arc. They are fascist state run by an absolute dictator. They are oppressing and attempting to destroy a very spiritual, but fierce people, the Bajorans (think Israel). Their homeworld has many deserts and they prefer the heat. Their ships even have Egyptian-looking architecture in them.

So there are arabs on Star Trek, it's just that they're the badguys...

[ansel12]

"Those old bombsight poopers are considered modern "plumbing" today."



Interesting that you know that, a Cornell study from almost 40 years ago said that the toilet should be about 9 inches or less off the floor, it also recommended urinals for homes.

Instead we went in the opposite direction and created even higher, handicapped toilets for public bathrooms.

[quantim]

Really, a joke about the annihilation of a race isn't funny.

Oh, geez.

A murderous death cult has nothing to with race.

BTW, they're not Arabs.

[scrabblehack]

Was Khan a Muslim?

[unspun]

A murderous death cult has nothing to with race.

It does have something to do with the races, since those of some adopt this death cult and identify it with being "Arab."

However, the above joke is about the anihillation of a race (or races). That is not something to humorously accept.

[Delta 21]

[Americanchild]

At the risk of outing myself as a Trekkie nerd....Sulu was Japanese, not Chinese.

But still funny.

[Checkers]

and gay

[Checkers]

not that there's anything wrong with that