Star Trek PhD
Unbelievable. Unis will give PhDs for anything nowadays:
It's the PhD thesis that boldly goes where no thesis has gone before. Djoymi Baker watched 700 episodes - 624 hours without ads - of Star Trek and its spin-offs, dating from 1966 to 2005, in the name of research.
She analysed the series armed with an exhaustive knowledge of the characters and storylines of ancient mythology - from Homer's Odyssey down.
It may sound like torture for those with an aversion to William Shatner's campy theatrics but, six years and 90,000 words on, it has earned Dr Baker a coveted chancellor's prize for excellence at Melbourne University. And the respect of academics and Trekkies alike.
I wonder if you can do a PhD in Spiderman or any other Marvel characters?
It's the PhD thesis that boldly goes where no thesis has gone before. Djoymi Baker watched 700 episodes - 624 hours without ads - of Star Trek and its spin-offs, dating from 1966 to 2005, in the name of research.
She analysed the series armed with an exhaustive knowledge of the characters and storylines of ancient mythology - from Homer's Odyssey down.
It may sound like torture for those with an aversion to William Shatner's campy theatrics but, six years and 90,000 words on, it has earned Dr Baker a coveted chancellor's prize for excellence at Melbourne University. And the respect of academics and Trekkies alike.
I wonder if you can do a PhD in Spiderman or any other Marvel characters?
posted by Engels at 10:24 am
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I want you to somehow get Spiderman or some other Marvel character into your thesis Engels. If you do, I'll buy you a carton of beer.
No....I want him to write most of his PHd on the Peter Parker/Ben Reilly "Clone" thingy that went on....
Maybe I should do work on my PhD...
Aidan, never mention the um, cough, clone, cough, thingy again...
Peter pan is more your style Engels
Maybe I could study the "platonic" relationship of Batman and Robin. Oh wait, Robin left home and became some other character called Nightwing...or something.
Robin 1 (Dick Grayson) became Nightwing.
Robin 2 was killed by the Joker, and Robin 3 is still Robin.
Way to go, Aidan. A DC fan.
No...that's my brother.
I just have to hear about it.
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