Here’s what Pegg had to say about this honor: “I wasn’t entirely by surprised when I learned that the Peanuts team had selected me as their Charlie Brown look-alike, since the comparison had been made several times before. I even have a Charlie Brown yellow t-shirt with black zig zags, bought for me by a friend who was of the same opinion. Now I guess it’s official. Word had come from the very top and who am I to argue. I look like Charlie Brown. Good Grief.”

At the risk of having this thread shutdown by Sean (just kidding, although I promise not to use the ‘l’ word or the ‘c’ word), I’ll say a few things about the politics that the movie gets into. (But I don’t have any insight that the Wikipedia entry for Insurrection wouldn’t already cover.) The Son’a, the decaying race in your words, chose to leave the planet that the Bak’u, the selfish society in your words, reside on. So I wouldn’t say the Bak’u are selfish. They did welcome the Son’a back into their society at the end.

Gene would have probably objected to the Federation admiral who allied the Federation with the Son’a and who was complicit with displacing the Bak’u from their land. But then without this idea, we wouldn’t have the Enterprise crew involved in an insurrection, which is the whole point of the movie. I think Western culture in particular has a guilt complex with the idea of displacing cultures since it basically displaced the natives from North America. I think Frakes and company are admitting that displacing cultures is not a nice thing to do. In line with Gene’s vision of humanity, the Federation admiral does later express his doubts and regrets about the whole plan to the Son’a leader.

I’d be interested to find out if you manage to obtain them.

A Dogs in Space representative will probably be posting a comment next with a link to the film’s MySpace DVD site.

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Robert McCarty
Barking Planet Productions