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There can be only one. (Hey, it is called The Quickening. Highlander reference.)

If I were the game designer I'd have gone with Honey Badger.

And aren't Pandarians that new World of Warcraft race? I thought that was still in Beta testing.

I miss my Marine NPCs - Sergeant Pepper, Corporal Punishment, and Private Parts.

What about Courtesans?

It only works if your phone has Java. Unfortunately that's not something you can download onto a smartphone. It was either embedded into your hardware by the manufacturer or it was not.

Will I still be booted for my AutoCorrects?

And it's actually been about 3 & 3/4 years.

How do I always seem to know when there is a Pandarian around? It's not like I'm even a regular simmer anymore. Weird.

OK, it's T'Aral for the win.

Still it's a good point. If we are calling ourselves PG-13 then let's allow what PG-13 allows. Either that or let's call ourselves something else.

So that means I can get some Academy nookie now?

My only serious gripe with the movie is what they did with Chekov. They turned him into some kind of Wesley Crusher-like mathmatical whiz kid, which he never was before, and they made his hair curly instead of the Davy Jones salad bowl cut. That and I would get booted from the STSF academies if I tried making time with a green chick or a GM like Kirk and Uhura did. Aren't our academies PG-13 too?

Precip! What dd I tell you about chasing down little kids? Like the new Star Trek or hate it, there isn't much we can do about it. It's canon now and we're stuck with it. It isn't like Highlander II where we can just look the other way and pretend it didn't happen. I'm not even sure we would *want* to go back to the old canon with increasingly bad work (Enterprise, Nemesis) and a shrinking fan base. In my view the fan base itself was responsible for the demise of the franchise. We moved out of our parents' basements, some of us even kissed members of the opposite sex (or same sex if that's your thing), but we still acted like dorks consuming anything with the Trek label, complaining about canon and bad writing, and then watching it anyway! We should have said "No! We're not watching or buying anymore until you roll out some quality!" Instead we went right back to the pusher to satisfy our addiction. We did ourselves in and have ourselves to blame. We're not supposed to post YouTube videos here but there is a Hitler Reacts video to the recent movie that is very well done. Check it out.

I've never been a big DS9 fan but one of my favorite Trek episodes is The Siege at AR-558. It shows what humanity is like when the chips are down. Quark nails it when he says humans are a wonderful, generous people when they have full stomachs and sonic showers. That's the world Picard spends most of his time in. No wonder he thinks humans have an evolved sensibility. Did that soldier who wore ketracel white tubes around his neck for every Jem Hadar soldier he killed have that same evolved sensibility? I doubt it. We didn't have evolved sensibilities, it just felt good to think so.

That's one of the reasons I liked the role Quark played. He had some stinging indictments of humanity and it turns out we are more like Ferengi than we care to admit. However, being like the Ferengi isn't so bad. Did they ever have a recession? You could argue (although based on one DS9 episode) that they had crony capitalism but they didn't exactly try to hide it.

You can't get completely non-human since the writers are human, that is true. However, even the humans were still subject to the DNA. Some of Sisko's and Janeway's and Pcard's actions were downriight deplorable even by our standards. Can anyone argue that the way Sisko brought the Romulans into the Dominion war was the ethical high ground? Yes they may have learmed to overcome their instincts, but it still took a lot of effort and they didn't always succeed.

So you're saying it's bad that this Trekkie says Klingons act like Klingons? How should Klingons act if not like Klingons? Does every Trek race have to have an inate HUMAN nature? Wouldn't be very interesting as a series if they did. We act the way we do in part because our DNA drives us to act that way. Why would you expect a race with different genetics and a different evolution to act just like us?

OK then. Time to stop living in the future and the way, way future. The way future is still OK.

Actually, what brought me here was some people hogging the old startrek.com chat rooms. You know, the ones that will have been back online soon for about 5 years now.

I thought for sure someone would have caught my Walter Koenig / Davy Jones reference. That's pop culture too you know. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. Not as we know it. Not as we know it.

Chekov: "Cheer up Sleepy Jean; Oh what can it mean; To a Daydream Believer; And a homecoming queen" What? Too soon?

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