Star Trek's 40th

Today, the Star Trek series celebrated it's 40th anniversary and to acknowledge it, the BBC invited Brent Spiner (better known as "Data") onto it's morning program. Pretty exciting stuff considering what's been in the headlines lately. Unfortunately, not only does Brent have to follow an interview with former Vice president of the United States, Al Gore (which by the way was also pretty exciting stuff), the presenter of the morning program had quite obviously NEVER watched an episode of Star Trek in her life.

Let me set this up for you. Moments before this interview started there was a scene from an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where "Q", a 'god', has given "Data" the gift of emotions. Just as "Q" leaves the Enterprise (the name of the star ship the show is set on), "Data" bursts out laughing not knowing why but loves the 'feeling'. Being an android and not having feelings, this was quite a gift.

Now that I have set it up for you, listen to the first statement the morning presenter makes: Brent Spiner Interview.

Brent got his own back with his comment about the original cast's mothers having to make their costumes due to lack of funding. Honestly, the BBC's standards surprise me sometimes.