“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Peter Drucker
Late Friday night I was in zombie zone after a long, hard, draining week. Not wanting to flop in bed too early for fear of popping awake in the middle of the night I decided to find something mind numbing on TV. And there it was a Season 1 episode of Star Trek. Who says you can’t find anything to watch with 732 satellite channels.
This was a really early one before Scotty and Sulu where all characters except Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura were strictly death scene bait.
I was struck by how bad the acting really was and how cheesy the effects were but as I watched more I decided it was hard to tell how bad the acting was because of how bad the writing and directing was.
And then the money shot scene (as far as being a catalyst for this post, anyway).
The alien character was split between a “good” one and a “bad” one who were battling each other. Pretty normal stuff. Near the end the “good” alien convinces Kirk he can lure the “bad” one into an area where he can be captured. All he has to do is alter some of the controls on his small space vehicle. When Kirk asks if he can do it the alien says (here’s the good part). “Yes, captain, with your help I think I can do it”. Fade Scene.
New Scene. Alien is up to his neck in wires and modules and Kirk is leisurely leaning against the craft chatting him up. Not holding a spare part, a flashlight, a user manual. ((You can insert your state's DOT stories anywhere along withe way here.) Hell, he could have at least had a bottle of turtle wax and been buffing the panel of the spacecraft with his velour shirt.
Late Friday night I was in zombie zone after a long, hard, draining week. Not wanting to flop in bed too early for fear of popping awake in the middle of the night I decided to find something mind numbing on TV. And there it was a Season 1 episode of Star Trek. Who says you can’t find anything to watch with 732 satellite channels.
This was a really early one before Scotty and Sulu where all characters except Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura were strictly death scene bait.
I was struck by how bad the acting really was and how cheesy the effects were but as I watched more I decided it was hard to tell how bad the acting was because of how bad the writing and directing was.
And then the money shot scene (as far as being a catalyst for this post, anyway).
The alien character was split between a “good” one and a “bad” one who were battling each other. Pretty normal stuff. Near the end the “good” alien convinces Kirk he can lure the “bad” one into an area where he can be captured. All he has to do is alter some of the controls on his small space vehicle. When Kirk asks if he can do it the alien says (here’s the good part). “Yes, captain, with your help I think I can do it”. Fade Scene.
New Scene. Alien is up to his neck in wires and modules and Kirk is leisurely leaning against the craft chatting him up. Not holding a spare part, a flashlight, a user manual. ((You can insert your state's DOT stories anywhere along withe way here.) Hell, he could have at least had a bottle of turtle wax and been buffing the panel of the spacecraft with his velour shirt.
Big help. Thanks Jim.
Jeez, how many times have we all had this happen? More importantly, how many times have we been Kirk?
A buddy of mine used to have a great poster of these cowboys riding hell for leather down a hill toward a river with the caption, “Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way”.
Or maybe if you’re the captain it’s “Lead, Loaf, or Lean”.
Jeez, how many times have we all had this happen? More importantly, how many times have we been Kirk?
A buddy of mine used to have a great poster of these cowboys riding hell for leather down a hill toward a river with the caption, “Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way”.
Or maybe if you’re the captain it’s “Lead, Loaf, or Lean”.
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