Captain's Log

To boldly fail like no man has failed before.

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Captain Picard's reaction to Chris's use of the phrase.

"Captain's Log" is Chris's usual opening to a video blog, first appearing in his 24 September 2008 video. It comes from popular sci-fi franchise Star Trek. In a typical episode, the captain, commander or other senior crew member would make an entry to log what has happened in the situation prior to the beginning of the episode. Most Star Trek Captain's Log entries are noticeably void of Tard Rage.

Sometimes, Chris gives an incorrect date (the date is technically always incorrect since he says "Stardate" and gives a Gregorian Calendar date), or fails to provide a date at all. An example of Chris giving an incorrect date would be many of the entries made in July 2009. The CWCki has organized the Captain's Log entries by the date they were uploaded.

Due to his constant usage of the phrase, and the fact that Chris is perhaps the most extreme form of nerd in existence, you could easily assume him to be a Star Trek fan. But strangely enough, his usage of it is not a reference to the franchise. Do to how oblivious Chris can be, it's a fair bet he never even heard of Star Trek until after he started using the phrase and was asked about it. Whether he picked it up from any number of the low brow comedies he enjoys (both Family Guy and Futurama reference Star Trek to absurd lengths), or simply heard the phrase used once and it stuck with him is a mystery, though it's bizarre he'd so readily use it in almost all his mediums without having even a passing interest in Star Trek. At least Trek fans can be relieved that he won't be placing Sonichu on the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, or battling vengeful trolls in nebulas.

He may have encountered the phrase from the Star Trek game he purchased as a result of the Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes competition, but knowing his gaming habits, he probably never played it.

Due to stress and laziness related to Bob Chandler's sudden hospitalization caused by congestive heart failure (or the death of his PSEye), Chris now released his Captain's log on twitter since 01 March 2010.

Characteristics

Generally, a Captain's Log video is one in which Chris addresses his fanbase, a sort of video blog where he asks his True and Loyal fanbase to be his personal army or to express his hatred about some troll.

This is in contrast to other styles of Chris videos, such as those where he addresses a specific individual (often expecting people to know he's posted a video about them, such as Mike Synder from The GAMe PLACe) or his music videos.

Occasionally a video is dead serious, and therefore not worthy of a being named a Captain's Log.

Captain's Blog

In November 2009, Chris began maintaining an irregular text blog on CWCipedia, featuring updates on the progress of his comic and his quest to turn Sonichu into the heart of a multimedia empire. He also dubbed this a "Captain's Log" and marked the successive entries with "Stardates". It can be found halfway down the right column of the site's front page (and also at Template:Captain's Log, and he has (so far) maintained an archive of his updates.

Remixes

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Stardate	7 March 2009
Made By	RosechusPickle
Subject Matter	Chris-chan
Video Type	Remix
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