What Would Captain Picard Do?: Hank's Star Trek song (2008)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2008-07-10) · last mentioned: 2009-05-08
In June 2008 Hank said he was making a Star Trek song too long for the four-minute rule; he performed it, as 'What Would Captain Picard Do', in July 2008.
Parts: Hank asks Nerdfighters to send Star Trek material for his song's montage (2008)
Later, under the same rule: Hank: punishment for losing the Peeps contest and a video over four minutes (2008) · Hank: punishment for his over-four-minute 'Eight Days of Awesome' video (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to vote on whether Hank should be punished for his 4:16 video (2008) · Hank: dress as Carrie Bradshaw, punishment for his 4:16 video (2008) · Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) · Grace Helbig: punished for an over-four-minute guest video (2013) · John: punishment for his over-four-minute health-insurance video, ruled not educational by Our Pants (2013) · John: punishment for his over-four-minute P4A 2015 video (2015) · John asks Nerdfighteria whether they will really punish him for his over-four-minute video on refugee camps in Ethiopia (2015) · Hank: punishment for his over-four-minute tenth-anniversary video, to be performed live at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria (2016) · Hank: punishment for accidentally uploading an over-four-minute Hank's Channel video to Vlogbrothers (2019)
About: Star Trek (franchise), Four-minute rule, What Would Captain Picard Do?, Jean-Luc Picard
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-24 | announced | Hank announces he is making a song about Star Trek that runs over four minutes, so it will use the montage clause of the four-minute rule. | Questions Answered! 00:03:11 |
| 2008-06-27 | announced | Hank announces viewers will see him perform a song about Star Trek within about a week. (playful) | Marion the Nerdfightarion 00:02:20 |
| 2008-07-10 | outcome | Hank performs his Star Trek song, 'What Would Captain Picard Do'. (playful) | What Would Captain Picard Do 00:00:59 |
| 2009-05-08 | looked back | Hank calls Star Trek one of his primary formative influences, alongside his parents and Jean-Luc Picard, and notes he wrote a song about it. (playful) | Star Trek: The Movie, Review 00:01:18 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-06-24 · Questions Answered! — announcement: Hank is making a Star Trek song longer than four minutes that he can't shorten, so he invokes the longer-than-four-minutes clause, which requires a Nerdfighting montage. — 00:03:12
- 2008-06-27 · Marion the Nerdfightarion — announcement: Hank tells Nerdfighters they will see him perform a song about Star Trek in the next week or so. (playful) — 00:02:20
- 2008-07-10 · What Would Captain Picard Do — Hank: The chorus says Picard would ensure the safety of his ship and crew, complete the mission, make himself a better person and bring peace to the galaxy for free. (playful) — 00:00:59
- 2008-07-10 · What Would Captain Picard Do — Hank: In his song Hank says that when you're confused and the choice is too hard, you should think of what Captain Picard would do. (playful) — 00:03:54