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Diane Duane puts out a kick arse Bones McCoy novel with Doctors Orders: the good doctor gets some serious command officer time in this book! w00t!

 

And not only does she give us three new sentient species, but a temporary alliance with Klingons and one heck of an Orion battleship for them to deal with

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Ah, 'MacBeth'. I thoroughly enjoyed the play, though my English teacher was totally clueless. She tended to repeat the same plot points over and over ... day after day ... sucking the joy and interest out of the story. Worse, she thought the play's experience could be enhanced by playing somebody's folk-filk song based on the story.

 

The song was really, really bad.

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Just saw an official government document quote Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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::wonders who will be the first Star Trek Novelist to tackle the new primeline (bye bye Romulus)...or the new timeline (bye bye Vulcan)::

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Ok... I can understand SciFi doing a reimaged BSG. I can understand JJ Abrams reimaging Star Trek for STXI. Those were great series, with an established fan base. But what I can't understand is ABC jumping on the bandwagon and reimaging "V" :P . When will it end? :blink: :P :P :P

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Predictions for the upcoming 'V':

 

1) More moral ambiguity.

2) More gore.

3) More sex.

 

Grows even more nostalgic for the 1-hour stories of TOS.

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Grows even more nostalgic for the 1-hour stories of TOS.

 

Ditto

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Speaking of gore...

 

Happy Halloween!

 

Going to see Rocky Horror tonight...wheee! ::hums The Time Warp::

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Predictions for the upcoming 'V':

 

1) More moral ambiguity.

2) More gore.

3) More sex.

 

Grows even more nostalgic for the 1-hour stories of TOS.

 

As a fan of Treks Mirror Universe, I can handle moral ambiguity, and sex as long as it doesn't go stupid. Gore, I can handle, provided it is not of the gore for the sake of gore stupidity.

 

However, the Original V is a classic, the 80's miniseries is golden entertainment, and I'm hoping that the re-do doesn't screw it up *too* bad. ::tentative, very tentative::

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I find it interesting that of all the networks..it was Disney's that decided to remake V.

 

-Precip

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Here's my theory as to why we're seeing all of these repeats and re-do's of Science Fiction: Gary Seven, Isis, and Roberta are retiring, and he finds nothing good on TV.

 

...okay, so I just finished reading TOS #84: Assignment: Eternity and felt like saying something other than "Oh, how cute you look in your costumes" whilest I answer the door in my 'Spock' shirt, no ears.....

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I just watched "First Contact" for the umpteenth time. And, I might just be the last person to notice this. But I really have a problem with it.

 

Its right at the end of the movie, where Mr. LaForge essentially says: "o btw i cre8ted teh b0rg field agin and we can g0 h0me now t0 teh futur lol"

 

Really? Just like that? You discovered time travel for the Federation and then had resources to go through with it on a banged up ship. And did it all in the span of maybe an hour?

 

Like I said, I may be exactly the last person here in STSF to really notice that. But I thought I'd voice it anyways.

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Really? Just like that? You discovered time travel for the Federation and then had resources to go through with it on a banged up ship. And did it all in the span of maybe an hour?

 

Honestly, you'd think they would have used the classic "Time Warp around the Sun" to jump back to the future. Of course, knowing their luck, Enterprise-E probably would have miscalculated and wound up in some alternate reality... STXI anyone?

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Actually, the speedy solution to a complex problem that should take months / years to work out is a Star Trek cliche'. The first time I really noticed it was in TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren." McCoy works out a hypo-mickey which emulates months of metabolizing native foods within five minutes using nothing but his tricorder and whatever yummy chemicals were in his hip-bag hypo kit.

 

Scotty was good for a quick technical solution that should've required weeks of refitting, just by pushing a candy-colored button or fiddling with a bulbous laser pointer. Of course, the winning "quick repair of extensive damage" goes to Kirk in TOS: "Court Martial" in which extensive sabotage is fixed by yanking out a cluster of high-voltage cables.

 

Rip ... yank ... bridge crew shimmies to the left, Power Restored!

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Oh my. I was just thinking about how in that new Star Trek movie Kirk was born in space, even though the timeline shouldn't have been changed at that point. Maybe... oh my... maybe the Kirk in this timeline was the Sam in that timeline. O.o

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And since we're getting dangerously close to not being random .....

 

Did you know that :

 

Pablo Picasso's full name was "Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso."

 

The modern day word "meloncholy" derives from "meloncholia", which comes from the latin word for black bile. Ancient and medieval medicine recognized four main fluids in the body: Yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood (the four humors). An excessive amount of black bile was said to cause depression and other mental illnesses.

 

Modern english defines a billion as one thousand million (1,000,000,000). Many other languages define a billion to be one million million (1,000,000,000,000).

 

As a loanword from Norwegian, 'fjord' is the only word in the English language to start with the letters 'fj'.

 

 

 

And you'll all go to bed a little less ignorant tonight ... Thank me later ... :blink:

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Oh my. I was just thinking about how in that new Star Trek movie Kirk was born in space, even though the timeline shouldn't have been changed at that point. Maybe... oh my... maybe the Kirk in this timeline was the Sam in that timeline. O.o

 

It might not be so much one person replacing another as a person who completely either ceases to exist, or not being born at all. Jim would remain Jim and Sam would remain Sam, although either one might never have came into existence w/ the new timeline.

 

Temporal, timeline, and alternate reality debate issues. Gotta love 'em.

 

Granted, the kid walking along the side of the road during the joy ride? That *was* supposed to be Sam, and then the Sam part was written out of script.

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Sees something ...

 

Rant ... rant rant ... rant rant SCREAM rant rant SCREAM rant rant rant rant rant ... ... ... SCREAM rant.

 

 

Hmm ... I do feel better. Not much better, but better.

 

 

--------------------------------------------------------------

 

In happier news: I'm going to be getting the Star Trek: Alternate Realities DVD set in a week or two.

Edited by T'aral

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Oh my. I was just thinking about how in that new Star Trek movie Kirk was born in space, even though the timeline shouldn't have been changed at that point. Maybe... oh my... maybe the Kirk in this timeline was the Sam in that timeline. O.o

 

Ditto with what Kansas said about Jim being Jim and Sam being Sam. However...there is the possibility that Winona went into labor early, due to the attack by Nero. If it were a "normal" delivery, the medical staff, Winona and George wouldn't have been as shocked as they were.

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Well, someone can be named something else, no? I meant it's probably Sam named Jim.

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SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'FLOWER ARRANGMENT'

Pull back to show Gumby in studio with piles of flowers on a table.

SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'INTRODUCED BY D. P. GUMBY'

Gumby Good evening. First take a bunch of flowers. (he grabs flowers from the table) Pretty begonias, irises, freesias and cry-manthesums...then arrange them nicely in a vase. (he thrusts the flowers head downwards into the vase and stuffs them in wildly; he even bangs them with a mallet in an attempt to get them all in) Get in! Get in! Get in!

 

Flower arranging, brought to you by Spam, the letter Q, and The Spanish Inquisition

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"Oh, an african swallow, maybe: but not a european swallow - that's my point."

 

"Oh - I agree with that!"

 

"But then again, african swallows are non-migratory ..."

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I wonder at what age one can first view MP "The Holy Grail". I certainly recall my first time watching the Black Knight scene (Biggest laugh I started crying..I recall ), am certain I was under 12.

 

-Precip

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The wifey is currently enrolled in Cosmetology school. She has her own mannequin head to practice on. I have named her.

 

She is Bianca Ronaldinho. Born in the streets of the infamous City of God in Rio De Janeiro, she has managed, despite the scars of shrapnel on the left side of her face (the mannequin is scratched), to become a beautiful and well respected Brazilian novella star. Currently starring in "As aventuras do pirata Capitão Carvalho", she is the model of how beauty can be molded out of suffering. A lesson in how to bring out perfection despite ones imperfections. . . She is triumph from tragedy.

 

 

 

 

Yes, I name and give backstories to the heads of mannequins, I have no life.

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Yes, I name and give backstories to the heads of mannequins, I have no life.

 

No, you're just a roleplayer. ;)

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