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Hmm, Star Trek: Armada seems to have gotten something right in this regard.

Drat. I was looking forward to this in a dumb guns-blazing kind of way, but if it's really THAT pedestrian... I mean, I get it, you need the Excuse Plots so the game/comic/whatever FEELS like the film experience of Aliens, but it's been seen too many times. It's like all the Colonial Marines ever do...

^ Well I guess that's for her to decide, right?

I mean she was a Blue Dog. I could be wrong, but I doubt pacifism and that caucus overlap.

That's the impression you get from the films, but if you you feel the need to take the EU into account then you would be surprised to Obi Wan nearly washed out of the Order and into the AgCorps until fate intervened. At what point in his training was this? If this was shortly before TPM then yeah, ...

I think that Jedi Knights are strongly encouraged to mentor Padawans at all times, so they may have seen the Will of the Force in a new Knight and a new student being bound by a common tragedy. I also get the impression that Kenobi was a bit of a toe-the-line prodigy who was extremely popular with t...

Best not read the re-launch novels. Darn. I was pondering getting into those. Command seems like a much more natural destiny for Jadzia (who really stopped being a science officer when the Dominion plot kicked in), so I hope they weren't just trying to shove Ezri into the Jadzia box. And yeah, Ezri...

I liked Ezri. I think the producers did what they could with a very tough circumstance. They did not want to lose Jadzia, at all, in any way, but that actor was walking out the door. They lucked out in that the nature of the character let them keep part of her/it around in the show. They didn't WANT...

^ Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. A chem grad student I knew flipped out into a libertarian rage over this, and I said something like "your right to a large snake doesn't overpower my right to an Everglades. Ask Australia if they'll let you import your rabbit or your cane toad." Just cause...

1. Lose your credibility by failing to keep a lid on the incredibly illegal and immoral behavior of your reporters
2. Take on Google.
3. ???
4. Damned if I know. He already had the profit.

Alyrium is definitely a good bit sicker than me, but even I got a chuckle out of this one. And then one from the six pages of moral argument.

For fuck's sake, when did this board become a bunch of Miss Manners hand-wringers? A poacher got killed by a wild animal . That's irony. That's blackly humorous. The world is a dangerous place and sometimes we laugh at the ways it finds to kill us. If a robber got crushed by a bank vault door, it wo...

Fourth Edition was more of a marketing disaster than a gaming disaster. I never play MMOs, and rarely play CRPGs. 4E was a breath of fresh air that got my whole family back into playing D&D. It's vastly easier to construct encounters and situations as a DM. Where it really failed was that it bec...

^ Yeah, but they give it a nice twist around season 7, when Ezri points out to Worf that it's all a sham covering over a deeply corrupt center. In fact Gowron was always a slimeball, he exploited the Klingon honor cult while being a total cutthroat himself. It's also pointed out in another episode t...

I just rewatched this with my fiancee, interestingly enough. We didn't have much negative to say. Obviously I always thought the Prophets were a little off-tone for Star Trek, but compare and contrast with "All Good Things" and the tasks the various noncorporeal beings give Sisko and Dukat...

Anyone else notice that we are apparently going to find out how the ship on LV-426 tipped over into its present position? :D I get why they aren't calling this an "Alien" movie, but I think it's clearly a prequel. Which I appreciate. And I hope they don't bend over backwards to AVOID showi...

Why wouldn't it be "allowed?" Neither the state nor anyone else can tell a church what they can and can't do.

Your friend and her fiance just learned the hard way that some churches are racist circle-jerks.

Which just makes Sullivan an incisive hypocrite, really. Why? Because he's an apologist for the Catholic Church. Of late he has made several wholly inadequate attempts to reconcile his Catholicism with his lifestyle (condemned by the CC of course) and his acceptance of the ultimate authority of Cat...

Hear hear. Andrew Sullivan said something very incisive on this week's Real Time about the issue:- Joe Paterno was the head of a cult. And the thing about cults is that someone is going to get buggered, and no one is going to tell. That's what happens in the Catholic Church, and thats what happened...

Despite Havok's flowery hyperbole, I never heard of the guy before this week, and I don't feel a great void in my life where the state of Pennsylvania ought to be.

Many people no doubt do see Paterno in this way, but very many do not.

The reason why outrage is focused on Paterno is because he's the one that a bunch of slimy shits are trying to apologize for. On account of he's famous and made some school millions of dollars and plays a mean game of football. It's so much to expect the brain of this 76 year old pillar of the commu...

You know, I buy it. Strokes do all SORTS of weird stuff. I've heard of people waking up with an accent from a country that they've never visited, or speaking a language that they've barely studied. Sexual orientation is not totally fluid, obviously, but it's fluid enough so I think this might actual...

Interesting bit from the Telegraph there. I think that even if he manages to minimize damage in the primaries, it's a threat to his electability in the general.

Hey, I had some pretty good material back in 2010 when I actually cared! I recently suggested to someone in a PM that the real problem with the prequels is that there's one too many and one of them has an ok structure with nothing entertaining in it (TPM) and another is packed full of fun but is a t...

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Can we not pretend that this "the Sith are so confusing!" argument existed before someone came up with it on page 16? It's a disingenuous complaint. How soon we forget. Oh snap! Conceded! I remembered there was some thread on RLM/TPM before but didn;t have the events of a year and a half ...