Scatter Plot

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Scatter plot a course for home!

Don't connect the dots for these old TV show plots. But you can draw a trend line. If you do that, you can calculate your residuals. It's all about the residuals.

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(x, why?) Mini: Futile

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Things that make you go Ohm!

I hope repetition of themes doesn't begin to borg you.

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The Aliens Table: Boldly Going

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I wasn't going to work in a 'Picard' reference.

I haven't done one of these in a few years, so why not?

I noticed that it was pretty evenly split between calling this The Aliens Table and The Alien's Table. In anything, it should've been The Aliens' Table. So I think I'll just drop the apostrophe altogether. "I think I'll drop the apostrophe." -- Greek chorus

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Triskellion

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It's an en-thrall-ing symbol.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!




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A Question?

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(C)Copyright 2018, C. Burke.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

More than just a little semi-autobiographical.




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Multiplying Conjugates

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

It's sort of the Reverse Lazarus Effect.

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Qo'nos

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

Does the food make you go, "Gagh!"?

I've actually never been to a Quiznos, nor know if they have drive-thrus.

But I'd like to see a Klingon alternative called Qo'nos.




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(x, why?) Mini: Deadline

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

Because really, when you break it all down, that's all that deadlines are. Right?




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The Alien's Table: Self-Referential

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That table and half the chairs are in the basement. Still have the horrid paneling.

For the record, this is their fifth comic as a collective, although the Andorean appeared separately in this comic.

The photo was actually taken in 2005, long before I had this comic or even a blog. The picture was for eBay. Buyer's remorse, I guess. I thought that they were cool for a while, but with the kids and other stuff in the house, I thought I should get rid of them. They aren't out -- they're in a box in the basement. My best offer was "those are the cutest thing I've even seen. I just wish I had someone to buy them for." I think I even brought them with me to Lunacon one year, but came back home with them.

I hadn't intended on the photo to be A Thing. Then again, five times in 1,000 really isn't. I just hope it isn't a problem if I ever make a book out of these strips.

BONUS COMIC

A few years back (2011 or 2012), Lawrence Schoen of the Klingon Language Institute made this video of Soft Targy (to the tune of "Soft Kitty" from The Big Bang Theory). I adapted it as a comic and set it to him, and then showed it to him at Lunacon. He acknowledged having seen it before. (YES!) Oddly, I could not find the original stored on my hard drive anyway (it might be on a back-up disk), so I had to download it from a Facebook page. Enjoy.

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R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

He lived long. He prospered. Can us doing the same be part of his legacy?

It's been a while since I've included an obituary comic. I did a few very early in the run of (x, why?), but I had to stop. So many childhood idols were dying off, I could fill the strip with them ... except that I couldn't because my skills as an artist just weren't up to where they needed to be for a tribute. That's the main reason Gary Gygax didn't get a memorium strip (and that really bothered me at the time). As it is, if I hadn't taken the time not that long ago to create most of the artwork in today's comic, this might not have happened. Or it would've just been a picture of Leonard Nimoy and a quote with very little personal to it.

Whether or not to insert the character that sometimes is/sometimes isn't my own personal avatar was an easy question to answer. If I wanted to convey any personal emotion, it was the only way to boldly express it. Something I didn't do for so many of the other greats who have passed in the last 8 years that this strip has run -- people who inspired me or touched my life in some special way.

I never saw Leonard Nimoy in person. I was at one convention where I saw Mark Leonard and Jane Wyatt, (a.k.a. Spock's parents) and Nimoy was supposed to be there later in the evening, but we didn't stay that late. (It didn't help when we found out that they were only signing autographs on Sunday and we only had Saturday tickets). Another opportunity never came along. I envy the people who worked with him in his later years as he made guest appearances.

One thing I can take away from all this: from all the quotes that have been posted in social media, it's clear that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is still the most memorable and meaningful of the Star Trek films (even if you prefer The Voyage Home). I've read the quotes, watched the funeral scene, heard the bagpipes.

I'll close with a different franchise. Some of you out there might not be Star Trek fans, and that's okay. But some of you might remember Nimoy from Mission: Impossible. Well, thanks to the magic of cable television and vintage programming, even though you won't get Spock, you'll always have Paris.

Survey Says: Granularity!

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

All I had for Annie was "Cumulative Frequencies Open, Captain.", but it fit neither the space nor the flow of the dialogue.

True story. A very similar question appeared in an online survey, and that's what I imagined in my mind.

Oh, and the History teacher would've been the doctor if I wanted to extend the metaphor, but it was going too far already.

Cosplay

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(C)Copyright 2014, C. Burke.

Numbers of Cos(play) would be totally rad!.

Hopefully, there are enough buried references to math, sci-fi and this very comic to keep people guessing/wondering/analyzing for a while!

Stick Trek: Logical Fallacy

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Just the Captain, Science and Medical Officers of a general science-fiction strip trekking across the wilds of an alien planet ... (whistles) ...

You know, I was quite surprised to see that the last one of these I did was almost exactly two years ago. It didn't seem that long.
Previously: Redshirts and Chekhov's Gun.

Happy Halloween 2011

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Sounds totally logical, so he should wear blue.

Except that he isn't 100% correct. In fact, in Mike's first appearance, he wore a blue shirt. I was determined not to have my characters wear the same thing all the time, so the second appearance, he wore a yellow shirt.

And it ended right about there.

Lunacon and my Irish/Klingon T-Shirt

So I was at Lunacon 2011 at Rye, NY this past weekend. Happening right after St. Patrick's Day, I brought a couple of T-shirts, which I had bought at the Great Irish Fair at Coney Island last summer.

One of them had a Celtic knot similar to the Triquetra, only more knotted, with the following written across it: I Swear to Drunk, I'm Not God.

Amusing as that is to me, I did get a couple of double-takes from passersby because I'm thinking that they, in a possibly sleep-depraved state, saw a Klingon symbol before seeing it for what it truly was.

And speaking of funny looks, I got a kick out of something that happened on Saturday morning. I got my first official "I'm Not Sure if I Know You, So I'm Just Gonna Nod" nod. I'm usually on the other end of that nod after trying to start conversations with people whom it turned out I hadn't actually met over the last 25, er 15 years we've both been attending.

Triquetra -- St. Patrick's Day 2011

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St. Patrick was a Klingon -- That would be a great meme to start!

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Go Green! But not with your food or beverages!
Don't drink any green beer or eat any green bagels!

As you might have guessed, work on the comic has slowed considerably due to
numerous factors from work and at home, which drain the creativity from me.

Try, Try Again

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Yes, it should be "Seven of Thirteen", but any geek would rather have "Seven of Nine".

Chekhov's Gun

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Must be the radiation.

EDIT: FYI: The variation in spelling was to prevent giving away part of the joke in the title.

The Aliens Table: MythBusters

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But the MythBusters didn't have Capt. Kirk.

Kingfish

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Remember, I never said that people who did get this were old.
But at least you aren't Older than Radio.