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So what if you woke up from a coma and laying next to you in your clone. And the doctor says "By the way, in order to save you we had to create your double and then kill him. Time for his funeral now" I know I'd be super freaked out and very guilty. How bout you guys?

This question reminds me of the movie "The Island". Good movie, Neelix is in it too.

But they did inform Trip's clone that he was a clone fairly soon, and that he would be short lived. They were far more honest, and were actually dealing with the moral implications of their choice to grow the clone, even as the process was moving forward.

In 'The Island', there was a whole culture of deception, and the people who purchased the clones to start with were selfish, with no consideration that their clones were actually human.

Both the Enterprise episode, and the movie searched out the moral issues well...both were quite good. In neither setting did things actually get 'settled.'

I voted other. I liked Johnny Quest when I was growing up, and have DVD's of the short-lived series.

I think it was filed and ignored as time went on and more pressing things were given priority.

As strange as that incident must have been to Starfleet, some analyst might have reasoned that it was just some elaborate escape from Earth, and since they were heading out of the alpha quadrant anyway, what kind of threat could they be. Some other review committee probably agreed with the assessment, and the file was made inactive. How could they possibly imagined such a relentless foe from that encounter?

I liked it so much I moved south. Most people are decent... the racists are not the majority, although people are largely conservative. I would define a true southerner as a person who has raised the action of 'being a good neighbor' to an art form. That includes the good food, and some of the most clever small talk I have ever engaged in, but also help in time of need.

DC needs that gun law. It's crazy enough, but if the police do not have something that allows them to seize guns from criminals, then the criminals will take over.

Well, to the chagrin of many here, I plan to vote for Hillary in the May primary. I would have voted for a Biden or Dodd had they stayed in the race. I do not believe a woman can win the office of President, but I do think Hillary knows how to handle pressure of the office and she is the more qualified Democrat. I won't vote for Obama at the moment because I have received one too many bullying e-mails telling me what is wrong with me if I don't vote for him. Nothing is wrong with me. Black people do not have to all get in the same line.

Yes, I would miss my country.

And so much of it went to school lunch programs. Yet people complain about government regulation. How could we ever NOT have government regulation with criminals like this, who do not care that they endanger children. We need better enforcement, and more penalties.

Actually, it reminds me of an old (from the late 60's) Bill Cosby skit called 'Chicken

Heart'. In the skit Cosby is a child who is supposed to stay in bed while his parents go out, and instead gets out of bed and turns on the radio, and listens to a program called 'Lights Out.' The night's story was 'The chicken heart that ate New York City' ( or Los Angeles or some huge city). It starts out something like "...the chicken heart

was grown in a laboratoy vat....". The heart starts growing uncontrollably, eats the elevator operator, the New Jersey trunpike, and winds up '...outside of YOUR DOOR!.." With Cosby's storytelling and sound effects, it is hilarious. But the funniest part in those times was the idea that one could grow a chicken heart in a laboratory vat----something only a child would believe! But now....

Apparently it is common for zoo visitors to taunt the animals. Taunting animals, no matter how stupid, does not merit the death sentence. And in particular, teens do many many foolish things, but we do not want them to pay with their lives.

I love many of Frost's poems, including "The Road Not Taken", "Design", and "Desert Places." ("Desert Places" is also about looking at and meditating on a snowy landscape.)

I think as part of their punishment they should get jailtime, and have to read all of Frost's poetry. For the type of people they seem to be, that might be punishment...but it might also be reform.

They kind of became the redshirts of 'Enterprise' tough.

I saw them as redshirts also, but they were actually written into the series with a little more depth so that we actually felt the loss of Major Hayes.

I don't have any problem with Iowa and New Hampshire residents giving the candidates a thorough lookover. It's completely different from what they have to do in large states

I do think candidates should plan ahead and stay in race longer than just those first to races, no matter the outcome.

But I like to see what the people of New Hampshire and Iowa think. The Iowa caucuses only involve the more politcally active Iowans. The New Hampshire primary

draws a larger percent of the populace. I find both processes interesting.

Well, the story that broke my heart the most was the VA-Tech massacre. I have visted their campus several times for meetings and conferences, and two of my colleagues have degrees from there.

But what affected me most was the coverage. The media, from the beginning, seemed interested in two things.....the number killed ( a record!) and the shooter. They incessantly clammored for the shooters's name. And then published his writings, his thoughts..they glorified him. Once they got the shooter, they stopped talking about the students and faculty victims.

I refuse to remember the shooter or his thoughts. I decided to pick one student and remember him.....I refuse to remember the shooter. Nor will i watch the next big massacre where the media makes some psychotic the center of attention.

The student I choose to remember is Ryan Clark. He was a senior with three majors and a 4.0 gpa. He was a band member and resident assistant who lost his life coming to the aid of a fellow student. His majors were biology, psychology, and English, and he spent summers working as a camp counselor. In his short life he impacted many people with his enthusiasm and positive attitude. He had a twin brother. He's my hero, and I celebrate and remember his accomplishments.

Well, certainly it is not in any way equivalent to Jim Crow, and it is not hateful.

They showed the rat on 60 Minutes.....it defintiely takes the prize.

Either Hoshi, because she can talk to anyone, or Mayweather, who can navigate though anything.

With this post I move up a notch to number nine in the overall top posters top ten list. :) I displace someone named Captain Jean-Luc Picard who posted over 7500 times and then diappeared from this site.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard started his own site, 'Imagination Island.' I think some members here participate, if that site is still going on.

Congratulations on the milestone.

Cease Fire---because we begin to see why the humans eventually had the leadership role in the Federation, in spite of some races being more experienced in space....

Terrorism in the UK is nothing new. As such, the best way to deal with it is to live life as normal and let the police and security/intelligence services do their job. No point in becoming paranoid about it.

Americans should should adopt a similar stance. Terrorists intend to inflict terror. They can do more harm on the economy if people are suddenly too afraid to fly or to go to a major event like the concert or ball game because it might be the one time a terrorist strikes.

Everyone should be vigilant, but do not let the hate-mongers rule your life.

I did not cancel a single trip after 911, and I will not make any such decisions out of fear.

Male peacocks are such beautiful birds. How sad that this one was so cruelly and painfully destroyed.

I predict the tabletop is going to the next large evolutionary step in computers, like the laptop was. Give it a few years for it to be come for main stream.

 

I want one. Screw the iphone.

I think the table top will be easier to emulate than the i-phone.

It was slow moving at times. I am still thinking about it. I really have not been watching it much since the main characters changed, and the Ori became the main enemy.

But at least they have allowed the characters to go on.

I think Coto's hands were tied a bit even after he took over the fourth season, because of what was done in the previous three. He had to try to work around relationships that were are already established.

For example he did a good job in moving the relationship with the Vulcans back toward what it would eventually be in TOS ( which still could not have been perfect). First Sovall admitted to Archer that he was wrong in opposing his appointment as captain of Enterprise. Then came the arc with the Vulcan's finding the kishara and re-examining the whole course of their society. I thought it was a thoughtful approach, and more realistic then acting as if humans and aliens 'hit it off' from the beginning, or assuming that there is no change in or evolution of local culture over periods of hundreds of years.

I think Coto did a good job.

Also social commentary,even about war, is found throughout the various ST series.

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Another excellent character actor. I loved him as the bumbling Yale (I think) mathematician in one of the more fun episodes of SG-1.