Dumbass

Upper left quadrant. See it?

Well MY Star Trek show would have Jedi and Cylons (old and new) and Immortals and things like that.

If all ships were equal, and all crews equally trained, would it make a difference?

Yup, that's the one.

I wouldn't mind if they moved it to another location. As a hotel, the Hilton sucks.

OK, this is what I don't get. You put a bunch of Immortals in a room (assuming there is at least one sword) and... well, you find out what "There can be only one." means. And yet the Immortals have been taking heads for millenia. Millenia! In fact Ramírez says "From the dawn of time we came..." and Connor says, "In the days before memory..." so the Immortals go back from at least before recorded history. And the more heads you take the more power you have, so there is an incentive to take as many heads as possible. We don't know how long the Sith have been around, but most timelines have it close to 6000 years with varying years of activity, so let's say it is 6 millenia. The point is they have a measurable history and before that there simply were no Sith. Sith do kill each other, and since Darth Bane's time a Sith apprentice is required to kill his master eventually, but there is no transfer of power (karma, manu, whatever) inherent in the act. So the Immortals have a biological incentive to kill each other. The Sith do not. So why then are there plenty of Immortals (in the series and Endgame anyway) and only 2 (occasionally 1) Sith?

There was also a scene in the miniseries that looked like it was taken out of Firefly / Serenity. It even had the ship taking off in a background shot. Sci-fi is filled with these things. The Millenium Falcon somehow made it into the Borg attack in First Contact. E.T.'s race had Senators in The Phantom Menace.

Especially since the only way I could be promoted any higher is to become a GM.

Scotland is cold, it's windy, it's rocky and hilly. I don't know why the Scots liked those kilts so much. Ah well, Congratulations Mr. Schwansee.

Battlestar Galactica: The Prequel

DS9 did show a darker side to the Federation and Starfleet in that much of the Federation's philosophy is a peacetime philosophy that is at best impractical in times of extended and total war (i.e. war against nonmilitary targets). That was the most intriguing part of the series and I wish they had carried more of this over to Voyager. However, they only fully showed this in a handful of episodes. Where they lost me was this intermingling of roles with a (at the time) mid-level military officer as a religious figure. This means, in essence, they lost me at the first episode. Plus that first episode was really hard to follow.

I see Garnoopy still has his pilot's license.

That wasn't me.

(In response to Praxx's caption) Snakes on a Stain!

"You know, Right Guard works just as well on the left one."

Why not? A couple years some people went to a Star Wars convention dressed like the original BSG Cylons.

Wow, 5 years and still waiting on an assignment?

Given the multi-birthday thread, shouldn't the cake say "I'll be back for you all later"?

I'll give him another day or so.

My history teacher always said "Those who don't understand history are condemned to repeat it." And he was right, too, because next semester there I was taking his class again. Anyway, just to keep history from repeating itself, the winner is... KROELLS!

Whenever someone dies in a hospital, the nurses and doctors always tell the family he died peacefully, even if he didn't. If I go out in a hospital, I want them to tell my family "Peaceful? Heck, it took two big orderlies to hold him down! He injured three nurses going out! One of them is still in traction!"

OK, here is my pic. I know you will like it. ^_^

If we had more home-schooling this wouldn't be a problem.

Yeah, I remember some Army training videos that were just awful. Glad to see they at least know PowerPoint.