{"id":349,"date":"2013-10-24T01:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=349"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:15","slug":"mr-worf-im-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2013\/10\/24\/mr-worf-im-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Worf, I&#8217;m Awesome."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Robert7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-350\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Robert7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>There\u2019s a line from Weird Al\u2019s \u201cWhite and Nerdy\u201d that goes along the line of \u201cThe only question I\/ Ever thought was hard\/ Was do I like Kirk\/ Or do I like Picard?\u201d Why am I bringing this up?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Because Picard is awesome, that\u2019s why!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Okay, explanation; I\u2019m a member of the Dork Club, Wabash\u2019s gaming club. We\u2019re a bunch of guys who get together once a week (Wednesday) and we play various tabletop games like Warhammer 40K, Food Fight, Settlers of Catan, Magic: The Gathering, Munchkin, and in this case Star Trek: Attack Wing. It\u2019s a time where we can kick back, relax, and laugh at each other\u2019s misery when the Plutonian Dragon eats them or cheer when the U.S.S Enterprise one-shots every single Romulan and Klingon ship they can find.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-352\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice knowing you, Klingons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-351\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Star-Trek-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enterprise on the hunt for some Romulans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So far the Plutonian Dragon thing hasn\u2019t happened, but the Enterprise bit did (I got really really <em>really<\/em> lucky).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I love going to Dork Club, partially because it allows me a chance to turn my brain off for a few hours. I can goof off and be me, more or less, and I don\u2019t have to worry about deadlines or studies and the like. I come out of Dork Club with so much tension burned off, and I think I work better when I don\u2019t have any tension.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, shameless plug for Dork Club. Everyone should go to Dork Club. It\u2019s fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a line from Weird Al\u2019s \u201cWhite and Nerdy\u201d that goes along the line of \u201cThe only question I\/ Ever thought was hard\/ Was do I like Kirk\/ Or do I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobby-black-17"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/Robert7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}