The comic below, created by John Campbell, is a snarky but amusing deconstruction of Star Trek: The Next Generation:

I always found it funny that the “empathic” character Deanna Troi had the power to sense plainly obvious emotions and painful that they had to explain bits of human behaviour that one should’ve picked up by the end of adolescence. That being said, much of the show’s audience was teenage boys, and teens often figure out the world through stories, so why not explain that stuff? And as someone much wiser than me once said, science fiction is a sandwich: once you’ve gotten past the bread of aliens and future tech and the thin slices of plot meat, it’s all about the thick moral mayo.

The last panels in this comic had me laughing out loud, especially since I imagined the line as delivered by actor (and dater-of-inapproriately-young-women, the lucky bastard) Patrick Stewart himself, using that William. Shatner. Mode. Of. Delivery.

In case it’s not apparent who the comic figures are, here’s a quick guide…

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Commander William Riker

Lt. Commander Data

Lt. Commander Deanna Troi

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

This article also appears in The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

You can file today’s Dilbert comic under “it’s funny, because it’s true”:

Links

• Dilbert comic for November 9, 2008
• About.com: Project Management 101
• Some project management blogs I keep an eye on:
• Reforming Project Management
• 4PM.com’s Project Management Tools, Techniques & Best Practices
• Leading Answers
• ProjectSteps
• PMThink! Project Management Thought Leadership
• Online Project Management and Collaboration Blog