Xmas Relic

It's the Holiday Season, so you know what that means— it's time for tons of overpriced and bizarre Xmas ornaments to line the shelves of your local Hallmark store! Let's see what offerings they have this year.

How about this Star Trek: The Next Generation ornament? It's based on the Season 6 episode Relics, in which Scotty wakes from suspended animation and finds himself in the 24th Century, where he meets Captain Picard & crew.

Yikes! What the hell happened to poor ol' Scotty here? I get that they had to put the ornament hook somewhere, but Jaysis! Did they have to stick it right in his shoulder? It looks for all the world like our Mr. Scott was in a really bad accident in Engineering!

It's even worse when viewed from the other side! Holy crap! Now it looks like the Klingons harpooned Scotty right in the top of his noggin!

Santaur Vs Santataur

I was doing my annual pre-Black Cyber Monday Online Xmas shopping today, and I ran across this on the Archie McPhee website. It's an Xmas ornament of Santaur, apparently cooling his genitals on a convenient snowbank.

Ahem.

"Santaur" looks a bit familiar, doesn't he?

I'll expect the first of my royalty checks by the end of the week, Archie McPhee. You can send them to me care of my blog.

See the rest of the one true Santataur here.