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ost_uid0]Ehehehehehe! My avatar!
Aaaand back to the scheduled agenda:
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ost_uid0]Top Ten Product Placements on Star Trek Episodes[/b
ost_uid0] (haven't we been here before?)
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ost_uid0]10. Pepsi X:[/b
ost_uid0] To escape a wavefront of destruction, Geordi pours a quart of the drink into the warp drive. Dramatic shot of Enterprise racing away from spread of wavefront accompanied by orchestral music. Enterprise stops in empty space until wavefront of destruction appears again, whereupon Geordi pours another quart of the drink into the warp drive....
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ost_uid0]9. BMW:[/b
ost_uid0] Fifteen entire minutes of a Voyager episode is spent on the holodeck with Paris gushing on endlessly about the capabilities of the latest model to a very bored and semi-comatose B'Elanna.
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ost_uid0]8. Carlsburg:[/b
ost_uid0] Bashir orders a bottle of Carlsburg from Quark's and starts blowing into it. Others soon join in. Vic sings to the tune. In a surprise move, Morn stands up and makes his bellybutton dance along.
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ost_uid0]7.McDonalds:[/b
ost_uid0] It's ubiquitous. There's one on every alien planet they visit, even the one with the sentient goop that clone people.
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ost_uid0]6. Nokia:[/b
ost_uid0] Â In its latest uniform redesign, Starfleet phases out the commbadge and replaces it with the new Nokia 7260, which comes with an integrated camera, 16-tone polyphonic ringtones, and Xpress-On changeable phone covers in a range of 24 colors.
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ost_uid0]5.Tiger Beer:[/b
ost_uid0] After saving the universe, Picard is congratulated by Riker. "Give this man a beer!" he says. "No," says Data, "give him a Tiger!"
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ost_uid0]4. Rogaine:[/b
ost_uid0] Subliminally, a picture of Picard is flashed as "before", with one of Riker flashed as "after".
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ost_uid0]3. Microsoft:[/b
ost_uid0] Archer begins every episode by asking Mayweather, "Where do you want to go today?"
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ost_uid0]2. Apple:[/b
ost_uid0] Janeway uses a Macintosh to upload a virus into the Borg hive mind and thus saves the universe.
And the #1 product placement on a Trek Episode is...
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ost_uid0]1. 5MV:[/b
ost_uid0] The gist of the episode is squashed into the first five minutes, and the next forty minutes are spent having the crewmembers in the mess hall making Porthos and chili jokes, while being assured that dinner will be served "soon".
I'm not sure if anyone else has seen the Carlsburg ad I'm talking about. It may just be a Singaporean thing.
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