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This thread made me smile. I don't say anything I'm afraid but it's interesting that some people do.

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I'm up there and at the moment I'm the only person from England .

Hmm lets see. My mother isn't a forums person, my father isn't a computer person, my sister isn't a sci-fi person and my partner mocked me relentlessly for joining here so it looks like I'm on my own.

They did have artificial gravity. Sisko said that was one luxury he allowed himself outside of the original design.

I have to go with DS9. I prefer the Cardassian architecture, there's more space and much more diversity in the population.

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Well happy birthday Star Trek. It doesn't matter how sad or geeky or nerdy a lot of people see ST, the fact that it still has so many dedicated fans (old and new) after all this time says an awful lot about it. How many other television shows have had this many years of adoration and success , five spin off series and ten feature films (so far)? Answer: none but Trek.

Another vote for Trip. I'll be honest now, I haven't really seen a huge amount of Enterprise, I only caught the first season and a half but Trip was definitely my favourite up to that point. If he started murdering puppies after that I might have to revise my statement.

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The album Two Gallants by the band Two Gallants. This is one of my favourite albums ever. Please give them a try if you can.

Still avoiding tidying up, having a cup of coffee and trying to decide whether to tidy or do the washing up first before my guest arrives.

How about William?

It is popular but it's a classic, there are so many different possibilities for nicknames and variations.

Plus he'd be in good company with Shatner and Riker. Not to mention William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, William Wallace, William the Conqueror etc.

I'm slightly biased as it's my name too.

Showers as I only have a shower cubicle in my current house. Shower gel as I always found that soap tends to leave a weird residue in the tub.

I don't believe in all these conspiracy theories. Politics isn't really fair, of course people pull strings, brown nose and get themselves elected through the old boy network but that's as far as it goes.

On a side note: At first I wondered what this poll was about as my mind immediately assumed it meant the shadow cabinet and that made no sense.

I'll have to go with Ripley. Connor may have been one tough lady but in T2 and the Sarah Connor Chronicles she did have a Terminator as her bodyguard and Kyle Reece before that. Ripley survived when there was no one else.

I remember helping to build an airplane at school (I never found out whether the school finished it or not) and we used metal and wood in that, I can't see why this couldn't be the same.

As for the inertial dampeners, maybe it's because they were naturally attaining warp speeds rather than artificially inducing them that something happened to allow them to not die a squishy death. Warp speed is technically impossible anyway so why not? I know I'm seriously reaching here.

I still have a problem with the take off and landing aspects, however, I still enjoyed the episode.

I'm listening to a Steve Reich CD while I put off tidying up.

Same here: Classical (particularly baroque), folk, indie, pop, rock, country, metal, easy listening, world, blues, jazz...any section in a record store, chances are I have something from it.

As an aside: I always find it interesting that people will happily list sub-genres of just about every other type of music but rarely do with classical.

I remember someone at school trying to tell me that Trekkie was the American name for a Star Trek fan while Trekker was the British name for it. I'm pretty certain the person in question wouldn't count themselves as either so I'm happy to question the validity of that claim. I've always been happy to be a Trekkie.

I'm one of the unusually high proportion of Aquarians.

From what little I know about secret intelligence services I'd say no. Unfortunately my knowledge comes entirely from James Bond and John Le Carre. John Le Carre did know what he was talking about though.

Dukat, it had to be. He was one of the most interesting characters (let alone villains) in this or any other series. As much as I like Garak, Dukat's still my favourite.

I voted Iliana and for those people that don't think she counts as it was just Kira in costume there was still a 'real' Iliana out there who looked the same and the real Iliana did make an appearance in the video she left behind.