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Dotted Lines: “Apple Kills Star Trek”

Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise discover that tech patents have gotten way out of hand.

 

Jay Hathaway

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Posted on Aug 29, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 11:57 am CDT

Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day’s must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines.

Above: HAL9000’s Apple-mocking Star Trek: The Next Generation parody has quietly been on YouTube since Nov. 2011, and it suddenly racked up nearly 200,000 views after Apple won its patent suit against Samsung this week.

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*First Published: Aug 29, 2012, 9:24 pm CDT