Didn't we pass all that when Khan didn't take over India and the Middle East in 1992?
Time Heals All Trek...well, Kinda
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They should modify the timeline given limits to growth:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ight-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse
1968 when the US didn't launch a nuclear weapons platform into orbit
1969 when Henry Starling didn't introduce the isograted circuit
1970s when genetic supermen weren't actually born
1986 when the NYT doesn't close down and Transparent aluminium isn't created
1994 when we didn't send cryostasis satelites
2001 when the Milenium Gate didn't get made
2002 when we didn't launch nomad
To me, Trek has always been the future of an alternate timeline.
This is truth in a condensed form, and said much more eloquently than I could have managed.I'm inclined to think that "the fans" do not speak with one voice, and that, on the internet, "what the fans want" usually just means "what me and a few like-minded folks want."
Professional writers are annoying....
And then as soon as Worf arrived, it turned back into a soap opera. Thank goodness they never found a way to shoehorn Michael Dorn into Voyager, or he would have ruined that show, too.
IDK... Yes, there was a bit of a soap opera staging around Worf. But I wouldn't say it was "full time." Worf added significantly to DS9. Without him, the whole Klingon arc would've been much less engaging.
I didn't find the Klingon arc engaging at all, not in TNG, and not in DS9. That's why I'm thankful that there was so little of it in Voyager (that nonsense about B'Elanna's baby being some sort of "chosen one" or whatever it was). I'm just grateful Michael Dorn was never in that series, or there wouldn't have been the character arcs we had with Seven and the Doctor.
Shortly before the first Earth Saturn probe was launched by someone most likely born in the 1970s
The first really hilarious Star Trek spoof skit:
Those guys were terrific. For those of you born in the 80's and beyond, "Promise" was a popular margarine brand (substitute for butter) and William Shatner did a series of TV commercials for them. The "shtick" they coined with it was for the spokesperson to raise their hand up like swearing on a Bible and say "Promise." So that's what Belushi does in the end, a funny jab at Shatner.
Not sure how long the video will be valid. The SNL franchise has been very aggressive at getting video clips of their material taken down. I know this one was yanked a number of times. This one was uploaded in 2013, so looks like it may be sticking around. But you never know.
Those guys were terrific. For those of you born in the 80's and beyond, "Promise" was a popular margarine brand (substitute for butter) and William Shatner did a series of TV commercials for them. The "shtick" they coined with it was for the spokesperson to raise their hand up like swearing on a Bible and say "Promise." So that's what Belushi does in the end, a funny jab at Shatner.
Not sure how long the video will be valid. The SNL franchise has been very aggressive at getting video clips of their material taken down. I know this one was yanked a number of times. This one was uploaded in 2013, so looks like it may be sticking around. But you never know.
They may or may not be, but as I recall, they're also paid by the word. So @Greg Cox is slipping.This is truth in a condensed form, and said much more eloquently than I could have managed.
Professional writers are annoying....
>VERBOS
Maximum Verbosity.
They may or may not be, but as I recall, they're also paid by the word. So @Greg Cox is slipping.
>VERBOS
Maximum Verbosity.
We're only paid by the word for short stories--and there's usually an upper cap. Doesn't work that way with novels . . .which is probably just as well!
(I still remember the critic who wrote of VARNEY THE VAMPYRE that it proved "you must never expose a vampire to moonlight or pay a writer a word.")
Think you're good...the poster is SNL.
It's geoblocked in Canada.
Don't you wish the sitting US president was also geo-blocked?
He sure won't get the same reception here that Obama got. Obama was met by crowds of well-wishers, and even in Parliament he was paid the "Four More Years!" accolade by the MPs.Don't you wish the sitting US president was also geo-blocked?
Trump will be greeted by protesters. If he comes. Which I hope he won't, but it's probably inevitable for diplomatic reasons. Just so long as he's not invited to address Parliament, or they'll have to fumigate the place.
In the meantime there's a back-and-forth argument on CBC.ca regarding the new ambassador Trump appointed. She seems a tad scientifically illiterate, but the right-wing posters are gaga because she's pretty. They're gleefully comparing her unfavorably with our Governor-General, Julie Payette, who is a former astronaut and has seen Earth from orbit on two shuttle missions and the International Space Station.
It's threads like this that really convince me I watch Star Trek for a very different reason than most fans do. I love DS9's four final seasons and detest most of Voyager. Probably for the same reasons Timewalker hates DS9 and loves Voyager.
IMHO... No series of Star Trek should be "detested" or hated. Granted there are episodes which can be referred to in that way, but I think each series has appreciable merits. It's hard to see that in the latest, DIS... DSC... or DIY? Always a struggle when in the thick of it. We'll have to give it time.
Always a struggle when in the thick of it. We'll have to give it time.
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