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US Navy Surface Warfare Officers (which are essentially the "command division" officers) rotate through different departments as junior officers in order to gain a diverse background of experience and earn various qualifications including Engineering Officer of the Watch and Tactical Action...

Yeah, as depicted in that episode, the symbiont was more like a goa'uld from Stargate. It was not a symbiotic relationship, but one where the symbiont took over the host's body like a true parasite.

Well in the real world, South Korea and North Korea have engaged in "minor skirmishes" with some regularity for over 50 years now since the Korean War armistice. Every couple of years, they'll trade artillery fire or engage in a naval skirmish that results in deaths or even ships sunk. There's...

Each sector does have a JAG officer. In TNG's "Measure of a Man," Captain Louvois was the JAG for Sector 23 and based out of Starbase 173. You can probably come up with a reasonable explanation for why Worf didn't have a JAG representing him. Maybe the JAG for the sector was based elsewhere...

Can you believe all the anti-KKK bigotry that exists in this country? I mean, every time some Klansman just want to have a harmless get-together in their pointy hoods, a bunch of INTOLERANT haters show up to scream at them and ruin their good time. It's unacceptable, and inexcusable. Bigotry...

The funny thing is that conservatives, almost universally, are champions of "at-will" employment laws that allow companies to fire any employee at any time for any reason. And yet, when A&E exercises it right to fire an employee who publicly harmed their image, conservatives are upset about it...

If you're going to use the OLD Testament as a basis for your beliefs, then fine. But why not be consistent? Why hone in on the anti-gay stuff, but then completely ignore the parts in the same section that talk about not wearing blended fabrics? Christians like Phil Robertson ignore that...

I noticed that Phil Robertson has tattoos. Obviously he didn't read Leviticus 19:28. I hope he enjoys eternal hellfire. Probably wears blended fabrics too, just to spit in God's face. And Heaven help him if ever touched his wife during her menstrual cycle...

Yeah there were two or three examples of non-Earth specific ship names...and like 150 examples of Earth-specific ones. The point stands. You had the Gandhi, the Tolstoy, the Crazy Horse, the Melbourne, the Cairo, the Yosemite, the Yorktown, the Yellowstone, the list is endless. To anyone who...

Speaking of TUC, one criticism I've always had with Trek was elucidated quite nicely in Star Trek 6 during the dinner scene. Chekov makes an off-hand comment about all alien civilizations have a claim to "inalienable human rights", and Gorkon's daughter calls him a racist and mentions that the...

Re: Ok Trekkers, Don't Forget To Sign Up For Mandatory Obamacare Oct 1 Your signature tells us all we need to know about you, Birther.

Oh I'm sure there was a big Tea Party audience turning in for the Oscars, as there is every year. Just as I'm sure half the Fox News audience gets pissed off whenever Ann Coulter is interviewed because obviously their viewing audience mirrors that of the general population.

Machine guns are largely banned, except for some pre-ban guns that are heavily regulated and registered. Now, when's the last time anyone here read a story where a bad guy used a fully-auto machine gun to commit a crime or a massacre? So the mantra of "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will...

If I were your parents, I wouldn't want you around either.

In real life, there was an English serial killer John George Haigh who was known as the "Acid Bath Murderer." He didn't use acid to kill his victims, but he did dissolve their bodies in oil drums filled with concentrated sulfuric acid, eerily similar to the way the bodies were disposed of on...

Even more obvious was the inscription on the next page:

Those "attitudes" you speak of were COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. You are comparing apples to oranges. The Right Wingers who led the opposition to the Mosque never once cited "gay marriage equality" as a justification for doing so. No, their opposition was not traced to any specific policy stance...

What specifically are you thumbs upping? The "women should not be treated equally as men" part? The "women should stay in the kitchen and make their man a sandwich instead of pursuing a career" part? The "homosexual behavior should be criminalized" part?

Just so people are aware that this issue transcends the single issue of gay rights. Here are the groups that Chick-Fil-A donates money to, and their agendas, which as you can see far exceed just opposing gay rights and extend into many, many different regressive areas: Focus on the Family The...

Riker wasn't a jerk, he was just being a stern CO. Nothing he did was particularly out of line considering his place in the chain of command. In the real life military, you will find MUCH more stern officers who are in the same rank/position as Riker, when they are faced with brash and...