Soccer Dad

To boldly split infinitives

Hube's Cube points to a new test to see which Starfleet Captain you most resemble. See who I am:

Captain Benjamin Sisko- You struggle with the most
difficult of ethical decisions. You feel lost
in a life that you feel have no control over.
The fact that you're right doesn't ease your
pain any. Ironically, you are also considered
the spirtual guide to the people of Bajor.


Which Star Trek Captain are you?
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I'm not surprised. I knew that I wasn't Kirk when I didn't figure that seducing Orion women was the way to rescue someone from the Orions. I knew I wasn't Picard when I didn't figure that I'd follow the Prime Directive like a religion.
But I'm really disappointed with Hube's Cube. The guy's a teacher and he titles his post, "To Boldly Go ..." Doesn't he know not to split infinitives? Who knows what other mistaken or subversive ideas he'll teach his students?
One of the Star Trek movies had an ad that simply said, "Boldly Go." Even that's slightly awkward. "Go Boldly" is a lot more direct. Of course then it's not a paraphrase of our culture's most famous split infinitive.
UPDATE: Crossing the Rubicon has also taken the test. And she's Kirk. As is my wife. My wife managed Kirk even without seducing the Orion girl! (I would have pegged my wife as Picard because she is so organized.)
Mirty wonders who Mackenzie Calhoun is. Sometime commenter SabbaHillel told me that Mackenze Calhoun is a captain in the Star Trek novelizations.

Posted by SoccerDad at May 19, 2005 5:28 AM