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  2. Posted

    As was said,as long as Trek generated profit,there will always be some form of Star Trek on television.

    I'd like for the next series to be either about the Corps of Engineers (there's just sooo much you can write about with engineers and the technical problems they encounter,both aboard ship and on planets),or the Academy.

    I don't like New Frontier too much,it reminds me of TNG a little too much.I'd just as soon have another go with TNG or Riker's Titan,if that's what we're going to be served.

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    Great!I tried to spend a new $20 at the mini-mart last week and the owner's brother didn't want to accept it,until the Dorito's guy showed up with his fresh supply of chips and told him that yes that was real money :)

    You would think someone that works at a store would be informed about these things.

  10. Posted · Edited by mr_tinkles

    I was browsing around in a book store early today and I saw a TOS novel (paperback) called "Mission to Horatious".It kind of looked like an older book.Like the ones produced in the early to mid 1970's.

    The book cost $16.95 :huh:

    What's the deal with that?Does anyone here have that book?Did you pay that much for it?

    How do they justify the price?

    Needless to say,I didn't buy it.

  11. Posted

    Nah,TB...after spending all that time pent up in a starship I'd imagine they love the opportunity for a little walking and sight-seeing on some new planet.Unlike the holodeck,they'd have fresh air(even when it smells funny),and the knowledge that they were in a real environment.

     

    Still,that said,I liked the little jeep/dune buggy vehicle and the Argo shuttle.I'd like to see a humvee version! :huh:

  15. Posted

    I'm an on-again/off-again community college student.

    At the moment I'm not attending,but I will be back in school for spring '04 courses.I'm only a few units shy of a BA in liberal arts.After that,who knows?Trekiebabe is hard after me to go to a 4-year school.I guess we'll see when the time comes.

  16. Posted

    SoCalTom, what do you have agianst us misspelling people? i am not gonna take the time to use punctuation and capitalization on a sentence in a forum. i am not being graded. plus, i really dont get how a capitalization makes anything hard to read.

    To me, it shows a lack of an education. It shows laziness, poor taste, and poor netiquite.

     

    You're incorrect when you said that you're not being graded. When you submit a paper to an instructor, only one or two other people will see it. When you post something on a message board, the whole world can see it.

     

    The question that I have is: Do you want to show us your true intelligence level, or are you showing it now with poor spelling and punctuation?

     

     

    Your assuming a couple of things:

     

    (1) That the person typing is a native English speaker.

    (2) That the people who post,care what the rest of us think about them.

     

    Myself,I don't judge someone based on their ability to post a nice,neat little reply to a topic.

  20. Posted

    Star Wars rocks.

    I actually went dressed as Padme Amidala,in full royal make-up and dress,and fake hair-do,when Episode 2 came out.It was a lot of fun.Should've seen the looks me and Trekkiebabe got when we started kissing in the theater lobby! :thumbs:

    Guess I made a pretty convincing woman.

    I remember some old lady walked past and raised her voice so we could hear her say,"Damn,queers make me sick!" :blink: Of course that just encouraged us even more.

  21. Posted

    I don't have a child,but if I did there is no way I'm sending the kid to public school.TrekkieBabe and I went to a fairly decent high school,but it is decent only in comparison to the other high schools in its district,which were like junior varsity versions of Pelican Bay,Chino,and San Quintin.You've got kids that don't want to learn and constantly disrupt classes.Teachers that either have given up,or just don't care.School administrations that will not allow the teachers who do care,to get rid of disruptive students,and more and more violent crimes occuring.One of my friends from early childhood,a guy with a Phd in Geology (could've gone to work for Exxon,2-years ago,but decided teaching was a nobler career),Dr.Roy Tugman,usually calls me up a couple of times a week and we shoot the breeze.I've heard him complain about the way his school's administration simply refuse to let him clean up his class and toss the troublemakers.If he gives them a slip and sends them to the office,the counselors and principal send them right back.If he sends more than a couple down,they return with a note from some higher-up telling him to stop sending so many students to the office!He's had his tires slashed,his car antennae snapped off (both,multiple times),been called racial slurs (he is white and teaches at a predominately black high school),and threatened with physical assault.And the kids doing this?Nothing happens to them,but a talking to by a sympathetic counselor or even the office secretery. :thumbs:

    Its insane.Sadly,he's about given up and decided to seek employment elsewhere.

  23. Posted · Edited by mr_tinkles

    Basically,yes.The difference being that the Genesis Device was designed to make the changes to an inhospitable environment rapidly,almost instantly,while terraforming on any scale is an operation of many,many years...perhaps entire generations.

    I think the Federation saw and understood the horrific potential Genesis had as a weapon of mass destruction,in the wake of the events of Star Trek III:The Search for Spock,and they wisely decided to never make another such Device.

    Can you imagine,entire populated worlds...billions of sentients,wiped out in a moment by the Genesis Device as it remolded their planet?I think "Bones" McCoy brought up this possibility in conference with Kirk and Spock on TWOK,and became enraged when Spock calmly agreed that it would make a very effecient weapon.(he never advocating its use,merely stated the fact that it could reshape an already settled world,and destroy everything on it in the process).

  25. Posted

    I've never submitted any answers to the Trivia questions,but I read them all and try and answer them before running for my reference manuals :blink:

    I think most of the questions are moderately difficult (for myself anyway).I wouldn't change them too much.I guess what I mean to say is,don't dumb them down any,and throw in the occassional brain buster.Just for fun (and to visualize us squirming,trying to figure them out :thumbs: ).