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I disagree with that. ST.com is a joke to be quite blunt. I have been to many websites in my day and i have never seen such rude,despicable people as i have at ST.com.(don't get me wrong, there are nice people there also,but they are in the minority to say the least)Define "rude" though. What one person considers rude may be perfectly acceptable to others.
For example, i have seen others get quite personal and vulgar in their attacks and have nothing done to discourage this behavior, meanwhile the victims of these attacks usually end up having their accounts "deactivated" Imo, very ghastly indeed.My cousin posts on the official website. He has never mentioned any problems. Members on that site tend to have enormous post counts which suggests that account deactivation is not very common.
After about 8 years at ST.com i found this place and have forever left that site far behind. The people here are very cool and treat each other with respect,plus everyone has a good time. Without a doubt, my fave of all star trek websites."Treating each other with respect" could actually be a case rather of people posting things in order to please others. For example Member A says something. Member B is offended. So the next time Member A posts something, they dilute it in order to avoid offending someone else. But since offense is often in the eye of the beholder, it can have the effect of creating a "safe" and bland environment where no one is willing to post their honest opinions for fear of upsetting others, which I don't think is particularly constructive.
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It's a good site. It simply gives you nowhere to hide if you can't defend your posts. Which sounds reasonable to me.
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I was flicking through the channels today and Fox "News" mentioned this story. The presenter, said "a ship is sinking in Antarctica....that's the one in the north"
Then sheepishly a few seconds later said......"sorry, I meant south"
What a moron.
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Shatner needs to "get a life"
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It looks promising.
These marketing campaigns which are cryptic I find are more interesting because they don't give everything away.
They can backfire though. Like "Godzilla" did in 1998.
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No he wasn't right. He didn't oppose the research because he believed that a scientific alternative existed, but rather he was basing his decision on religious motivations. Supernatural thinking that potentially blocked a route for many people to be cured of hideous life-destroying medical conditions.
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The country's health care system cannot afford to open its doors to overweight immigrants, a spokesman for New Zealand's Fight the Obesity Epidemic explained to the Daily Mail.Sounds reasonable.
The alternative could be to allow overweight people into the nation, but make it very clear than the Kiwi NHS would not offer any treatments based on weight-related ailments and conditions.
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Constructive Comments
- It all sounds a little "Mary Sue-esque". Make sure you don't end up with a situation where everyone seems to be in love with your lead character.
- Change the name of your lead character. "Cindy Smart" sounds like a porn star.
- Replace "Janeway" with someone else. You could do without such a dud character in your story.
- Get rid of the "birds sang with joy and flowers open" bit. You may as well have cherubs singing while floating on clouds.
- I don't buy the whole "she falls in love with Data simply by looking at his mission profiles" bit. How would those files know that he was "introverted but amusing?". Would Geordi's mission profiles say "chief engineer on the Federation flagship.....decorated several times by Starfleet.....shy in a sexy sort of way.....expert CONN officer".
- Data did lose his creators, his android offspring and the woman who used him while intoxicated for sexual thrills (I presume you are referring to Tasha Yar) but he didn't seem to "suffer" from it. His reaction basically consisted of a gormless unemotional blank expression.
- Q offered to turn Data into a human being, but Data refused.
- I'm not sure how credible or desired it would be to have the counselor as XO on a Federation starship.
- Your "handsome Lieutenant" sounds like a male version of a Mary Sue.
- I don't see why Q would help. What "dilemma" does she face? She either stops having fantasies about a destroyed piece of machinery or she can stop being silly and get on with her duties.
- Based on how you describe this character, I think SHE needs a counselor. Quick.
- Wanting Data but instead focusing on B-4 is like wanting Brad Pitt, but instead settling for his retarded identical twin.
- I wouldn't describe B-4 as a "poor android". He was barely aware of his surroundings. He was the Forrest Gump of androids.
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Creatively this episode took this franchise to new heights.
Deep Space Nine is far and away the best Star Trek series and "In The Pale Moonlight" is one of its finest episodes.
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But Star Trek is not broken, it does not need to be fixed or reimagined or anthing of the sortThis statement IMO proves that James Cawley is delusional and has obviously been spending too much time in his basement.
Star Trek is in dire need of serious attention and reworking.
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Crossfire and His Way.
One representing the pain of watching the woman he loved with someone else. The other representing that self-restraint finally melting.
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I'm sure God forgives her
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I was in church yesterday and right in the middle of the priest's sermon........somebodys cell phone started ringing..............
Maybe it was God?
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Any of the regulars from TOS who wish to appear should be added to the movie.
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I saw this individual on CNN talking to Larry King. His excuse was pathetic that he was using the "n-word" because he thought he was "one with black people" and they use it as a term of endearment.
Go away you sad sad bigoted man.
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well, i think its dumb.... theatres are incredibly loud, whats the matter if one guy is sitting there talking, im pretty sure you can still hear what is going on in the movie.. that slike someone yelling in your face and you have someone talking beside you.. its not a big deal, get over it! Its a free country.
People don't pay money to go to the cinema to listen to people talking in the audience. They go there to watch a movie. As such, talking on a phone or otherwise is inappropriate in a cinema.
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Sounds like an overreaction.
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If you are in a cinema and someone refuses to turn off their phone and persist in disrupting the movie, you call a staff member and they will remove them from the theatre. Very simple.
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Aside from the possible dangers with not being able to make a phonecall when absolutely necessary, what gives the jammers the right to prevent others from using phones? If I want to use a phone in a restaurant, what right do others have to stop me? Nor is it their right to decide what is considered "inane" or not. It's common politeness to turn a phone off when in the cinema though. So they find ringtones and people talking on phones to be annoying. So what? If they find it annoying when babies cry are they going to invent a "baby jammer" that sprays sleeping gas into their faces to keep them quiet? I would recommend that someone invents a "phone jammer jammer" that instantly causes a phone jammer to overload and explode in the hands of whomever is using one.
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First of all, no offense, but I didn't even realize that Canada had participated in WW1!
However, since they obviously did, I believe that conscription is based on need. If Canada had the required troops to fulfill their comittment to WW1, then no conscription was required. If not, then conscription would be needed.
Its much like the USA's involvment with Iraq right now. With our forces stretched to the max and war with Iran imminent, conscription may be right around the corner for us.
Any government that introduced conscription would be committing political suicide.
If the opposition to the war in Iraq is large now, just wait and see the chaos and anger that would be unleashed if a government tried to force people to fight.
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Someone has a heart attack, another person tries to call for medical attention, and BOOM some moron thinks it's clever to have a phone blocking device and the call cannot be made and precious time is lost.
Potentially very dangerous.
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Criminals and bail jumpers should be apprehended by police, not "bounty hunters" on TV shows.
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The effects of natural selection and evolution upon human beings are interesting, because unlike other animals who have to survive in the environment they find themselves in, human beings have the ability to change the environment to suit them and we can make use of such things like technology and medicine to deal with things that might otherwise kill us. As such, any mutations that occur for humans may not play as big a role in matters of survival as they once did. This doesn't mean however that evolution is not acting human being still though. For example a mutation giving human beings the ability to resist HIV would be very beneficial.
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