David Nezelek
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TyronneCaptain Kirk can't handle KHAAAAN!
January 23rd 2009 08:45
The Star Trek movies of the original series were well viewed, but never reached that flurry of popularity and merchandising that raised an entire empire around Star Wars.
One of the movies, though, is consistently praised as the best of the franchise: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", where Cap'n Kirk goes head-to-head against Khan Noonien Singh, and has this very popular scene:
How much do people love Khan? Well, so much that Google gets quite a few hits for the search of "KHAN", "KHAAN", "KHAAAN" and so on. Some clever bloke decided to graph the results of these searches based on how many 'A's were used:
Sure, it's an exponential dropoff, like you'd expect, but some of the other peaks are quite mysterious... the peaks around the 40s? How about that big one at 81? What would make a person type in 81 As?
Well, it's not just KHAAAAN! that gets Cap'n Kirk's knickers in a twist - he's also got a bit of identity crisis going, where he can't stand the idea of someone misappropriating his name:
Now THAT'S good acting.
Hmmm - it's a type of acting that's gotten Shatner so much fame that other people have become famous just making fun of him, like Kevin Pollack:
Regardless of how many As we decide are in KHAAAAN! or how many impersonations we see of Cap'n Kirk, I'll always remember that my old university has a building named after William Shatner - immortality achieved by overacting.
One of the movies, though, is consistently praised as the best of the franchise: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", where Cap'n Kirk goes head-to-head against Khan Noonien Singh, and has this very popular scene:
How much do people love Khan? Well, so much that Google gets quite a few hits for the search of "KHAN", "KHAAN", "KHAAAN" and so on. Some clever bloke decided to graph the results of these searches based on how many 'A's were used:
Sure, it's an exponential dropoff, like you'd expect, but some of the other peaks are quite mysterious... the peaks around the 40s? How about that big one at 81? What would make a person type in 81 As?
Now THAT'S good acting.
Hmmm - it's a type of acting that's gotten Shatner so much fame that other people have become famous just making fun of him, like Kevin Pollack:
Regardless of how many As we decide are in KHAAAAN! or how many impersonations we see of Cap'n Kirk, I'll always remember that my old university has a building named after William Shatner - immortality achieved by overacting.
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