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You can only sell so many braindead, soulless action movies under the brand of Trek.

Shuttlepod One or Dear Doctor.

What a joke. German social democrats are like most centre-left parties in Europe virtually indistinguishable from centre-right parties. Gee, you talk about a party which is totally in line with the horrible German policies against Greece, which did nada to stop weapon exports (we might wanna...

Nope. Your claim that liberalism and fascism are the only options and that the former is the only way to fight the latter is wrong. In fact liberalism and fasciam actually reenforce each (anybody is nowadays a politicall correct multicultural liberal, even a hardcore Thatcherite like Cameron.)...

First of all, I doubt that he whined like this while the show was made. Calling the executive producer a tard suffices to fire the fellow. Second, if Beltran had acted well he might have actually gotten more screen time over the course of the show and a better developed character like it...

I read the scene as a foreshadowing of Guinan's extraordinary capibilities which we witnessed in "Yesterday's Enterprise" and not really as a "Guinan vs. Q = stalemate". Q is powerful but not omnipotent and El-Aurians might simply be able to resist his skills better than other folks. It's like...

Cool mornings, tolerable afternoons, anticipating young wine (freshly harvested wine which is not totally fermented yet), onion tart, chestnuts and pumpkins.

"I wish there was an order 66 for Star Trek reboot haters, (order 1701) that would be so awesome, they would be knocking on hells door." Wishing for people who loathe a movie you like to be killed is simply wrong. About watching Trek chronologically, you could of course do that but in my...

It is in itself a good, if not the best scene of the movie. But it also set up some dubious character development as Kirk is now reduced to a lost, father-less teenager who finds his way towards being more or less like his dad after a father-substitute enters his life. This is a fairly old...

The 60s were all about the New Left which I loathe, the 70s were all about hippies becoming decadent, the 80s feature horrible fashion and are interesting as, unlike later decades, they were at least self-conscious about the reactionary revolutions (movies like "They Live" are pradigmatic of...

Climate change will wreak havoc upon biosystems and this lead to mass migration in this century. So we better prepare for a world in which mass migration happens on a regular basis. It is not like this has never happened during history but mostly it has been a pretty violent business. In my...

Why doesn't this surprise me? Once again, the very shortcut between hunger and food oversupply you made in your previous post is precisely what makes some dumb people have a bad conscience because of some stupid rotten food. The sources of hunger, Western protectionism and agricultural...

I never claimed that hunger is not a problem. I claimed that having a bad conscience because of rotten food is irrational as people who enjoy the luxury of rotten food usually consume far more expensive / CO2-intensive / slave-labour-intensive items. It reminds me of Western liberals who have an...

Why? Food is cheap in the West so it is totally natural that we waste it. The only reason to have a bad conscience due to consumption is climate change and there are dozens of products you consume everyday whose production has lead to far more greenhouse gas emissions than one stupid rotten...

In the case of refugees who do not work yes, but in the case of migration in general this is not totally correct. Most studies of Western countries come to the conclusion that immigration has mildly positive effects upon GDP. But in the low-wage sector migration of unqualified people obviously...

Nope. The movie was crystal clear. Unless something which has happened ample of times in the real world, a clandestine "deep state" operation by parts of the militaries of two countries, is factually unknown or ideologically intolerable to the viewer. Part of the Klingon and UFP military...

I disagree with the notion that there is no left-populist potential in "red states". Actually in rural areas with a higher worker density the potential is actually higher. The problem is that the New, i.e. post 68, Left plays this "we educated upper middle class vs. you unwashed dumb underclass...

Identity politics nonsense. A piece of Trek could feature ample of non WASPs as senior officers and be a reactionary piece of crap. A piece of Trek could feature ample of white males and be a progressive gem.

Nope. I already said that the Prime Directive has nothing to do with some stupid Gaiaism, the belief that there is some form of balance in nature. It is about sociology, about preventing the Feds from helping some folks at the costs of others. Or at their own costs. You cannot prevent a...

Trade unions are not syndicates.