Thursday, February 05, 2009

Colorado Springs: 7/11 Robbed with Star Trek Weapon

Favorite line of the report: "criminal set his phasers to 'rob' when he tried using a Klingon weapon from Star Trek to demand money from two convenience stores" (also happens to be the first line.

Metro.co.uk: Man holds up store with Star Trek weapon
Klingon Star Trek
Whorf: does not approve, and thinks you have dishonoured yourself
The man is believed to have been using a bat'leth, the traditional yard-long double-pointed scimitar favoured by Klingon warriors.

As everybody knows, the first bat'leth was said to have been created by the first Emperor of the Klingon Empire, Kahless the Unforgettable, who dropped a lock of his hair into the lava from the Kri'stak Volcano, before plunging the lava-covered hair into the lake of Lursor, and twisting it to form a blade.


Sorry, I didn't know that.

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