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    With regard to the Orion slave girls, I would really like

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    When it comes to the Orion women, I believe

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    Now that expalnation made sense....not in general.....just THOSE women!

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    I would like to see more of the Aenar, and their relationship with the Andorians.

     

    With regard to the Orion slave girls, I would really like

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    Please use spoilers should you choose to discuss my question.

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    This excellent opening episode contains all the elements that will eventually make Star Trek great: an interesting alien/monster, a problem that initially confounds the Enteprise crew, and characters we are going to get to know.

     

    The Craters, who are doing archeological work, are alone on a dry desolate world containing nothing but desert and ruins. They desparately need salt. Or... at least one of them desparately needs salt.

     

    Nancy Crater is not who she seems to be. Instead she is a mind-reading shape shifter who can become someone you know or someone you would like to know. She is the one who desparately needs the salt, and human bodies are full of salt. While a death occurs among the Enterprise initial landing party, it takes a while before the crew is able to determine that this has happened, since right away 'Nancy' becomes the murdered crewman, returns with the landing party to the ship, and disappears among the crew before it has even been recognised that there has been a death.

     

    Once that death is discovered, and the realization that something other than an Enterprise crewman has beamed aboard the ship, it becomes a race to keep up with the shifting intruder before she kills again.

     

    Through her shifting from one persona to another we also learn about the crew, since she reads their minds before changing into a new persona. We learn the Dr. McCoy still has deep feelings for his lost love, Nancy. We learn that Sulu has hobbies--in this episode, it's botany. And at least one of his plants does not react well to salt monsters! We learn that Uhura is lonely ( so it is not surprising that in her free time in other episodes we see her in the crew's lounge singing, or sharing tribbles.) We learn that Spock's blood does not have sodium like human blood.

     

    In the final resolution of this problem, McCoy has to choose between his feelings for his old flame, and the lives of his friends and shipmates.

     

    Rating: 5

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    No, I do not do anything. I do not get trick or treaters anymore because our complex

    has a foyer, so that my front door is not accessible to the public.

     

    My church has what it calls a Hallelelujah party where fun is present (this year they are going roller skating) but no constumes are allowed, but I do not go to that either.

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    Nope.

    I don't like the new Battlestar series on the Scifi Channel.I watched the entire first season, just to give the show a chance to grow on me...and except for a few interesting characters nothing else worked for me. So I decided to stop watching it.

     

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    Same here. I tried to watch it first season, and the only thing I checked on second season is to see if Adama was going to live. ( It could have been that the actor wanted out of the series.)

     

     

    I don't suppose your dislike of the show has anything to do with the Cylons being Christians...does it?

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    The Cylons are not Christians. They mouth a lot of Christian sayings, but they are not Christians.

     

    My dislike is that I saw very little hopeful in the struggle, and I disliked having to be on guard for those little interactions with the traitor and the Cylon in red. It got old quickly. Treachery after treachery after treachery gets old after awhile also. BG forgets to at least occasionally hilight what's good about humanity, what's worth saving, what's worth fighting and surviving for. I have seen much better apocolyptic scifi that I disagree with. For instance I despise the portrayal of Chrisitians in Octavia Butler's books Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents, but she does tell a good story, and and retains the element of striving and hope in the midst of violence and struggle. It is of far superior quality then the relentlessly hopeless BG.

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    I think Rednecks get a bum deal, everyone thinks that they are racist hicks who do nothing but sit around and burn crosses and sing "Dixie" all day.

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    Until Jeff Foxworthy, I think for a lot of people the term 'redneck' was synonomous with racist.

    Since Jeff Foxworthy the term has been broadened to represent an aspect of southern culture. I believe he is largely the reason the usage of the term changed from just meaning something negative.

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    I don't think reunification is possible, without major cultural changes. Romulus is a military culture, and the Vulcans are pacifists.

     

    I think relations can improve between them, or if Romulus moves toward a less militaristic, less confrontaional society, then perhaps they could move closer. The Vulcans will not abandon their philosophy of logic, so it is the Romulus that would have to change.

     

    There was evidence of a softening of their culture in Nemesis.

     

    I think that it is possible to come up with new and challenging villains if the Romulan society continues to open up. It could be an interesting way to develop Star Trek for the future.

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    Actually this class looks legitimate - well, as legitimate as a Sociology class can get.  I remember in the mid-90s there were some colleges seriously considering teaching Klingon as a foreign language.  Not for degree credit, but as "adult continuing education" or something like that, but it was still considered.

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    I would be concerned about whether there was sufficient material for a valid college level course. I would have not problem with an adult continuing education course.

     

    I notice that the course mentioned in the article, while a full creidt course, is being taught during a break, suggesting that it is not quite accepted, since they did not find space for it during the regular term.

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    But Trelane's parents had none of the arrogance that the Q seem to have. Nor did they seem confused about how to procreate, as the Q did in one of the Voyager episodes.

     

    There were also two other non-coporeal races in TOS that were Q-like in their powers, although unlike the Q they never claimed to be omnicient or omnipotent. One appeared in an Enterprise episode...the aliens from Errand of Mercy in TOS. The others were the aliens in the TOS episode Charlie X.

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    A lot of comments have been made about Winn in the thread entitled " Kai Opaka".

     

    Quoting myself from that thread,

    Well, I do not have such strong feelings about Winn. But I do think she added an element of realism. There were two big centers of power on Bajor, the church and the government. People who want power put on whatever cloak they need to wear to gain it.  The Christian Bible long ago warned of wolves in the fold. It is the same here.

     

    I think the writers intended to have Kai Winn all along, but in order to not be seen as attacking people of faith, had Kai Opaka and Vedic Berial ( I hope I am spelling these names right) as devoted, true leaders in the faith, before Kai Winn was allowed to ascend to power. In the end she was revealed to be not a true follower, but the viewers of DS9 did not misconstrue the Bajoran faith as being twisted and corrupt because their leader was. 

     

    I also admired how Kira handled Kai Winn. On the one hand Kira was not fooled by Winn's treachery and schemes. On the other hand she did her best to show respect to the Kai, to the person holding the office. Of course some times Kira did have to openly defy her, but many times she held her tongue, and worked with her as best she could.

     

     

    Winn was another well developed DS9 character.

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    As I said in another thread, we as fans have to take a step back sometimes and allow the stories to be told before we make judgments.

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    I agree, and I think sometimes fans reacted to what they saw as if that was all they were going to see.

     

    It surprised me that it did not seem to occur to people that relationships between races would have to evolve over time, and that initial relations could have been rocky.

     

    Look at the difference between the relationship between Japan and the US or China and the US over time, or even the relationship between Vietnam and the US is changing.

     

    Let someone else try to tell the story, and see what comes of it. Let's watch the Vulcans change and grow, instead of of assume that this way of presenting them is entirely wrong.

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    You channel surf all night looking for something to watch because there are no Star Trek reruns playing during the times when you are home, and nothing seems to 'hit the spot', and so you dejectedly settle for the House and Garden Channel (which turns out to be pretty good if you have a home, but the closest you get to adventure is house hunting).