Dark Reality

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    First, "free" isn't the right word.

     

    Second, if you're downloading episodes, it is surely not PC only! Unless you are downloading EXE files which contain the episode within WIN32 code. And I highly doubt that. Macs have multimedia software that can play digital video, same as Windows users, though the choices are different. I know VideoLAN is available for both Mac and Windows. If PC only you mean downloading, wrong again. :congrats: BitTorrent is the best way to go for downloading TV shows. BitTornado is what I use. There are BitTorrent clients available for the Mac, for OS X and Classic.

     

    Limewire and Bearshare are based on Gnutella. This is an outdated network. You may have scattered luck with it, but I would recommend something newer. Shareaza is a multi-network app, if I remember correctly, accessing ED2K and FastTrack (Kazaa etc), and maybe BitTorrent.

     

    On non-BitTorrent networks, I estimate you can probably download 80% of the episodes in low to medium quality. If you use BitTorrent, you can get every single episode; you download by season and each season is complete.

     

    Zeropaid.com is a web site regarding file sharing programs. It's a good resource if you want to find one, and it will tell you if a client has Spyware or not. It covers all networks, all clients, official or otherwise (e.g. Kazaa Lite).

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    Janeway. Picard was a great captain, but Janeway seems to be modeled after Picard but with more guts, riskier like Kirk. For nostalgia, Picard looks better, but I think Janeway is an improved Picard.

     

    What bugs me about Janeway though is this need she has to stop and look at every nebula, especially if it looks dangerous. And... I suppose this applies to both of them, but every now and then, they'll do an episode where a member of the crew is arrested and to be put to death or lobotomized or something else, and the captain just accepts it. I can see it with Picard; for example when Wesley Crusher was to be executed (right?) for walking on the grass, I guess had Picard taken him and ran, the Federation would have just extradited him. But in Voyager, 4x10 "Random Thoughts", Torres is arrested for having a negative thought. After Janeway liberated Seven from the Borg, I thought she'd be in the clear to just beam Torres and the rest of her people out of there and hit it, warp six. What would they have done? The offending thought is now light years away from their little planet, in a starship. Problem solved.

     

    So Janeway's not perfect... but she's a great captain.

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    The holo-emitter would always weigh the same thing. Let's say it weighs 6 oz. to use a number... It weighs 6 oz. sitting unused on the shelf, and it weighs 6 oz. supported by the Doctor's holo-matrix when enabled.

     

    Here's something to consider: Are his footsteps silent? If so, that would indicate he's merely projected, sort of gliding along, but his feet are simulating walking. He's not really walking, he's just moving or being moved. If his footsteps aren't silent, it could be said he has weight. After all, the idea of the solidity of his hands... solid when he wants them to be... could be applied to his legs as well. Maybe he's "projecting" the weight of Dr. Zimmerman downward so that he makes the proper sound. Though I suppose we could say the computer, e.g. the comm system, is producing the sounds of his footfalls artificially so as not to spook people. But I'm pretty sure when he walks across the room, you can clearly hear his footfalls. I won't debate fictitious technology, but real physics has to say somewhere (I'm no expert) that if you can hear footsteps, X amount of weight is causing it. Of course, if you remember Data could control the length of his hair, presumably the Doctor could silence his footfalls, or simulare a lot more weight than he actually is. If he were to set himself to look like Dr. Zimmerman but have the mass/weight of tritanium his size, he should be able to smash through walls, and step on someone, crushing them.

     

    So I guess my answer, which is more of a guess, is that his weight, as defined by the force the holo-emitters are exerting downward, is a variable controlled by the computer, probably based on Dr. Zimmerman's weight. I won't argue though; this is just how I see it, and I know there are Trek fans out there that know a lot more about the specifics than I do.