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I think the key to this is what Quark said in DS9 - that the Federation has an absorbtion ability because its enemies do not perceive its real core - it seems soft but takes its potential opponents unaware. Quark's actual quote was something different (about synthehol) but had the same meaning. The ...

Will everyone (including the Manticorians as happened in prior novel) continue to be moronic dupes of the Mesans, or will someone with brains appear?

Regret was arrogant to proceed on this mission without escorts for his ship.

Some good points. I did make mention of another group of Ascended in a distant galaxy that took notice of the MW, Pegasus and Ida while the other Ascended were busy containing the false vacuum collapse. I'd intended them to be the Ori, and indeed their Priors are turning up, but using Iblis would b...

The nature of the opposition is important when choosing how principled to be in your stand. When Gandhi used civil disobedience against the British to gain independence for India it worked because the British were basically decent. Contrast this with a possible different scenario as envisaged by Har...

Consider if you own a beautiful table. Do you value it because of who a previous owner was, or who created it, or do you value it for itself? Would you rather own an extremely useful and beautiful table (even if it may be one of hundreds of copies) or an ugly rickety piece of crap that has a great p...

Typical Federation (especially the Enterprise ) response is for the ship to try to find the aliens, but some other space nations would have as usual protocol that the ship return to report and then return with a fleet. It looks like Riker has committed Star Fleet to following this second option (and...

Also Data is the Enterprice's Operations (and Science officer?), so he's in technical branch rather then the command branch, which would help futher as the mechanics of the ship don't care if you're a social person or you either use them correctly or not. Incorrect, he is also in the chain of comma...

The question then would be how did he become an officer? Officers are by definition required to handle subordinates, ergo people, ergo he needed to develop SOME social skills to effectively manage them. The same way very unsocialized Vulcans deal with it. Using logic, Starfleet rules and regulation...

A few nights ago, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) had a promo for 13th Doctor Who featuring a trailer that had a pizza in it. It said 'Coming Soon', so this strongly implies an August debut. The BBC has officially announced an "Autumn" date, which makes it later (September to Dec...

Yeah, there is a major problem with Data as conceived in ST:TNG. He has the rank of Lieutenant Commander, which means he had to rise through the ranks, which requires exhibiting ability to interact with others, to show command ability and be able to have a functional understanding of what others say...

n the final moments of their story, the bride and groom end up at different locations in the early morning hours. In a silent page, Ms. Kyle sits on a rooftop, contemplating. She discards her veil and leaps toward the street. At the Finger Tower skyscraper, after an hour of waiting for his bride, M...

I watched Sapphire and Steel back in the 1990s. Brilliant show. As far as I know it was never on Australian TV. I saw it because a friend had videotapes recorded from NZ TV! Like some other British TV series such as Blake's 7, it has a downbeat ending. Though each assignment is separate they also ha...

I haven't seen 'The Wire' but not all Australian TV series are as bad as some posts are saying. Sure, there is a lot of crap (just like there are bad US and UK shows, as well as a lot of great US and UK shows). The posters should watch some ABC or SBS shows. There have been some really great ones su...

The dayshift/nightshift thing in Star Trek, as many people have previously mentioned elsewhere is silly. Whenever an important encounter occurs in Star Trek it almost invariably occurs during the dayshift. Another thing that I have noticed is that the person sitting in the command chair is often doi...

\Avasarala: Did you know that the majority of people on Earth don't have jobs? They don't work at all. They live on Basic Assistance, which the government provides. Now obviously this character is more enlightened than many people living in contemporary real life. However, there are still a couple ...

There seems to be a bit missing where Cole learned of the new ships that are coming from the Dying Light station.
Otherwise a quite exciting update.

My condolences Zor. To have a parent pass away at such a relatively young age is sad.

Well Deanna is only an empath, not a telepath, and a trained 'mentalist' may be able to deceive her as to their true feelings, yet alone thoughts. Watch this space as to when we find out the truth about the valet. The Ascension guy is right about the safety aspects of Federation ships (and indeed al...

RE: the tradition of having an aviator as commanding officer of a carrier/battlestar, this comes from the American practice where the commanding officer must have been an aviator. Note that they receive cross-training in naval type positions before rising to ship command. I imagine the reason is tha...

Engage grammar nazi mode: RE: "a rebellion was almost implausible." The "almost" is technically redundant - usually things are either plausible or implausible, with no gradation, unlike with regard to "impossible". Also with : "He had also not decided to recreate t...

I like the solution you created for the Asgard better than the canon version where they basically just let themselves die. Now, in regard to matters in Pegasus, they can let the decades pass while the Genii build up to become a military threat, or they can conduct an infiltration campaign designed t...

There was a manslaughter - by the Conservative Party.

Come on Ascended people; you either have a policy of non-interference or you don't. If you are going to stop the ZPM explosion then you have to substitute a Wraith fleet annihilation of your own, which you can do with a wave of the hand. So what are you going to do - not interfere or do a minimal in...

Loyalty to the leader of a foreign nation instead of a leader in your nation (or to your nation itself) is treason.
So it is this group who are the traitors.