Mrs.S
05-13-2011, 06:07 AM
The news just boldly went … somewhere it probably shouldn’t have gone.
A German newscaster must be wishing his colleagues would beam him up
after TV channel N24 accidentally displayed the logo for a 24th century
terrorist group depicted on the tv show Star Trek — rather than the real
world Navy SEAL team that took out Usama bin Laden.
The news team intended to show the logo for SEAL Team Six, the special
ops team that ultimately killed the notorious chieftan of the Al Qaeda
terrorist organization. Instead, it accidentally used a fan-made logo for the
Maquis, an anti-Cardassian rebel group that originally appeared in Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, reported fan siteTrekMovie.com.
The newscaster, identified as Mick Locher, even commented on the
emblem, pointing out that “they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out
the mission. They don’t have the skull in their emblem for nothing.”
Locher didn’t seem to notice that the skull in question was from a Klingon
and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by
the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, Klingon sword and the word “Maquis” (a
French resistance guerrilla group that inspired the name), the site reported.
Made up of only a few hundred forces based in Dam Neck, Va., the elite
SEAL unit officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or
“DEVGRU,” is part of a special operations brotherhood that calls itself “the
quiet professionals.”
SEAL Team Six has reportedly raided targets outside war zones like Yemen
and Somalia in the past three years, though the bulk of the unit’s current
missions are in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.
Star Trek’s Maquis is not scheduled to begin raiding for several hundred
years.
A German newscaster must be wishing his colleagues would beam him up
after TV channel N24 accidentally displayed the logo for a 24th century
terrorist group depicted on the tv show Star Trek — rather than the real
world Navy SEAL team that took out Usama bin Laden.
The news team intended to show the logo for SEAL Team Six, the special
ops team that ultimately killed the notorious chieftan of the Al Qaeda
terrorist organization. Instead, it accidentally used a fan-made logo for the
Maquis, an anti-Cardassian rebel group that originally appeared in Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, reported fan siteTrekMovie.com.
The newscaster, identified as Mick Locher, even commented on the
emblem, pointing out that “they also have the ‘Team Six,’ that carried out
the mission. They don’t have the skull in their emblem for nothing.”
Locher didn’t seem to notice that the skull in question was from a Klingon
and included a bolted-on eyepatch. He and N24 also appear undeterred by
the emblem’s inclusion of a phaser, Klingon sword and the word “Maquis” (a
French resistance guerrilla group that inspired the name), the site reported.
Made up of only a few hundred forces based in Dam Neck, Va., the elite
SEAL unit officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or
“DEVGRU,” is part of a special operations brotherhood that calls itself “the
quiet professionals.”
SEAL Team Six has reportedly raided targets outside war zones like Yemen
and Somalia in the past three years, though the bulk of the unit’s current
missions are in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.
Star Trek’s Maquis is not scheduled to begin raiding for several hundred
years.