Trekkie Dating, is it Good for the Gene Pool?

Eloketh writes "It seems that Tucker Carlson of MSNBC thinks that Internet Dating services are a somewhat disturbing trend. Specifically, when talking about Trekkies, he says 'Is this good for the gene pool?' He also goes on to question whether allowing Trekkies to meet and mate is 'in the national interest.'"

Fortunately...

[RoffleTheWaffle]

... pairs of males can't procreate. No, the Star Trek universe does not afford a real work-around for this problem, and procreation and replication via androids just isn't feasible.

requires IE6 for the 'free' video?

[daemious]

I really wanted to see Tucker Carlson making an ass out of himself too.

Perhaps

[grindcorefan]

..one should have a look at the Darwin Award statistics. How many Darwin Awards have been given to Trekkies, how many have been given to non-Trekkies? I'm afraid this will come out in favour of the Trekkies. However, that doesn't necessarily say anything. Trekkies are just as useless as non-Trekkies, perhaps just wee bit more able to survive.

In other news...

[bmo]

"Editors Zonk and Scuttle Monkey: Are they good for Slashdot or are they better in a white wine sauce?"

--
BMO - It is hot here, like a cow on fire

How else is a trekkie...

[clickety6]

... supposed to go where no man has gone before?

Re:Fortunately...

[91degrees]

Indeed. I have a Star Trek mystery dinner party game. Requires 4 men and 4 women. Where are you going to get 4 female trekkies? Are there 4 female trekkies?

Finally we get a website

[juventasone]

Unfortunately this site [trekpassions.com] came a little late into my life, for myself, and some of my friends, we had to resort to finding our mates the hard way.. on IRC.

The ratio's a bit out of whack there

[greg1104]

I haven't seen that many men all trying to bang the same woman since the last time I watched...wait, I wasn't supposed to admit to owning that movie. Nevermind.

Re:people actually listen to tucker carlson?

[zoloto]

I don't recall that. Do you have a website / video for reference (today's not my day for google, search results don't turn up much)

wait... here it is.
click for links to movies/transcripts [dailykos.com]

this is great!

Bah!

[SeaFox]

He also goes on to question whether allowing Trekkies to meet and mate is 'in the national interest.

Wow, what a coincidence! Here I was just wondering if allowing Tucker Carlson to mate was in the national interest.

Re:people actually listen to tucker carlson?

[SeaFox]

I don't understand why he isn't in favor of geeks getting together. More couples and new familes means more taxpayers to try to prop up broken Social Security systems and more young'ns to send into meaningless wars.

But then maybe he doesn't want them for the intelligence reasons. It's far easier to control a populace made up of idiots.

Re:Is this supposed to be funny?

[91degrees]

Is this supposed to be funny?

Yes.

I exaggerated the male to female ratio of Trekkies for comic effect. The idea was that people would see the absurdity of there being fewer than 4 female Star Trek fans in the entire world, causing laughter.

Hope that helps explain the concept, Commander Data.

Re:requires IE6 for the 'free' video?

[magicchex]

Then turn on Fox anytime he happens to be on.

War on Trekism

[my $anity 0]

Trekkies are a national security risk. Trekkies are everywhere. I might even be a Trekkie. See, Trekkies tend to believe that people must be tolerant, and progress in science, in order for any aliens to pay serious attention to them. You can see why this isn't in the national interest. The effects were minimized before they started breeding. Luckily, many Trekkies are male, leading to certain problems in mating, and a Trekkie and a `Normal' have a good chance of having a normal child. However, the number of female Trekkies is not decreasing. We must stop this infection of our society.

Re:Bah!

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe a good sized portion of the nation have already told him to go mate with himself.

It's only somewhat dangerous

[SEWilco]

Trekkie dating is OK, although somewhat dangerous. Particularly if bystanders don't move quickly when the Klingon gets excited.

Eugenics Wars

[pete-classic]

Well, when it comes to Eugenics Wars it's better late than never.

KHAAAAAAAAAN!

-Peter

Re:Perhaps

[bisscuitt]

That's easy for you to say!? You weren't given a red uniform !!

eek!

There are other things that shouldn't procreate...

[scolby]

...like men who wear bow ties.

As opposed to letting Tucker Carlson reproduce?

[elrous0]

And is the fact that HE'S going to have children supposed to make me feel GOOD??

-Eric

Re:Drasticly Needed Action

[SEWilco]

Hey! Damaged genes are the basis for evolution! That's our gene pool you're dissing. Not that I want to wade in that pool, but what crawls out might be interesting.

Re:Bah!

[mph]

He's actually one of the few people in the world arrogant enough to pull it off.

I didn't even know you could pull it off. Make it red and sore, sure, but pull it off? Really?

Re:Fortunately...

[Syberghost]

That's OK, because the women that DO come to Trek conventions are mostly, oh how to say this politely:

Willing.

Better start a national program

[slavemowgli]

Tucker Carlson is right, of course - trekkies mating is not something we can have. Why, if intelligent people had children, then the children might be intelligent, too - and who would still vote for the republicans in 50 years then? Just think about it - George IV. might not even become president anymore!

So we definitely need a program to keep this from happening. I wonder what we should call it; since it's a program for trekkies, how about "4T"? Or better yet... T-4 [wikipedia.org]! Yes, that's perfect!

Thanks, Tucker. Just what would we do without people like you?