The guy did have a really rough time during his tenure as captain of the Enterprise-D. Especially the Borg experience. Guys, if I ever get assimilated, just shoot me. Seriously.

Above is a selection from the wonderful web comic Abstruse Goose.

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"Someone broke the toilet!" Homer Simpson is almost as good a Vader at Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Artist Dean T. Fraser, known for his Simpsonized versions of different pop culture icons, has created this image of Doctor Who characters à la Matt Groening. You can view wallpaper-sized images at the link.

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Pink Tentacle has several classic posters that were displayed in Tokyo subways in order to encourage people to behave themselves. They include remixes of Superman, Doraemon, Astro Boy, and Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.

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I'm just now watching through the run of the Star Trek television series Enterprise and OMG Jonathan Archer is my new favorite captain! Spoilers below the jump....

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What if Leia and Luke didn't find out that they were brother and sister...until it was too late. Like after Leia got pregnant.

Warning: some foul language.

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From the Christmas Pageant of Mortal Kombat (your liturgical colors may vary, but I guess that since this is Finnish, it's probably Lutheran, as it is a primarily Lutheran country, and blue is usually an Advent color in the Lutheran tradition. Yes, I fact-check these things. Sometimes.) This picture is by artist Olly Moss, who has been featured on Neatorama.

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This futile little game could only be improved by making it accessible in a command line prompt. I found it on a Joystick Division list of playable video game parodies. Among them is a RPG consisting entirely of inventory changes and a text-based version of Guitar Hero.

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deviantART user Aliehs made this lovely work of pyrography. It's a picture of Teresa of the Faint Smile, a character from the anime and manga series Claymore. Aliehs writes:

This is one of my most FAVORITE female anime characters. Shes just very beautiful and a well rounded character, I really loved her story.

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The above video is a fake trailer for a movie called Blackstar Warrior -- a blacksploitation film centered on Lando Calrissian. Sadly, it was never made. But you can view videos from a mockumentary about the making of this film at the link.

Lando is the man.

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Artist Ashley Browning used color orders and proportions to create minimalist representations of Street Fighter characters.

This is a one-off piece, and a departure from usual Minimalism pieces of mine. This time I just wanted to go really, really basic. Initially, I felt I was creating a Bauhaus/De Stijl inspired piece, but after finishing it, I thought it also looked like the primitive graphics from Atari 2600 or Intellivision consoles.

Can you identify the characters?

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Scott Harris of moviefone compiled six comic books from the bowels of comic history that should never, ever, be made into movies. Among them is "U.S. 1" -- a trucker superhero:

Back before Facebook or Twitter, the closest thing to social media in America was a little ol' thing called the C. B. radio. So when the C. B. craze hit in the late '70s, Marvel had the perfect answer: U. S. 1, the story of a truck-drivin' do-gooder who could receive C. B. signals through a steel plate in his head which, oh yeah, also allowed him to control his big rig telepathically. If you're too young to understand what that means, just trust us: It was a weird time to be alive.

That it was.

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Jason Powers made an infographic about the history of Marvel Comics. Pictured above is one small selection from it. Did you know that the Incredible Hulk was originally gray, but was rendered green for easier printing?

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deviantART user Bergie81 created five works of Star Wars-inspired art that reflects the style of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The image pictured above, showing Han Solo being frozen in carbonite, was inspired by the 1963 work "Drowning Girl", currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Engineers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany took a KUKA KR 500 6-axis robot arm and used it to simulate the travel of a Ferrari F2007 F1 race car at the speedway of Monza, Italy. The purpose, Paolo Robuffo Giordano says, is not to create an awesome game, but to research how the human body responds to motion:

"A motion simulation system is a fundamental tool to understand how humans experience the sensation of motion," he says. "By running suitable experiments, one can gain better insights into the cognitive processes of the human brain."

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