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I hear Krazy Glue works pretty well.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Only if you want to attach your ass to a girder and dangle upside down.
(he's right about that thread. gee-ZUS!)
There's actually a thread where you guys are talking about me?
Rats. After all, there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. 
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Rats. After all, there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I was talking about you at work the other day. I told a co-worker that my puns -- while not quite Shatneresque -- are so pungent, they affect other people's minds. It was in reference to 'home despot' -- which I've been using since I lived in Riverside last century, and how I only just noticed it as your avatar.
See, not so bad now, huh? Feeling a little bit loved?
"I cannot help but be touched." 
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
"Coruscant By The Bay"...
Pretty apt description! Why does the sky look all nasty and overcast?
Doesn't make the 23rd century look particularly "green"...or eco-friendly...
A rather dreary intro to 23rd Century Earth...
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
*sigh*
So where Gene Roddenberry took aesthetic inspiration from the murals of Arthur F. Mathews, the architectural precepts of Paolo Soleri, and the idyllic society visualized in the center panel ("Ecclesia's Paradise") of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delight triptych for his 23rd century city, J.J. Abrams took the Star Wars prequels for his. How.... unsurprising.
Even bigger woop.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
"Coruscant By The Bay"...
Pretty apt description! Why does the sky look all nasty and overcast?
Doesn't make the 23rd century look particularly "green"...or eco-friendly...
A rather dreary intro to 23rd Century Earth...
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
*sigh*
So where Gene Roddenberry took aesthetic inspiration from the murals of Arthur F. Mathews, the architectural precepts of Paolo Soleri, and the idyllic society visualized in the center panel ("Ecclesia's Paradise") of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delight triptych for his 23rd century city, J.J. Abrams took the Star Wars prequels for his. How.... unsurprising.
Even bigger woop.
You went back 10 months to find a post just to demonstrate that you have no appreciation for research AND that you're aesthetically bankrupt?
Geez, thanks for sharing.
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
Especially given that Coruscant is just a knockoff of Trantor...
"Coruscant By The Bay"...
Pretty apt description! Why does the sky look all nasty and overcast?
Doesn't make the 23rd century look particularly "green"...or eco-friendly...
A rather dreary intro to 23rd Century Earth...
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
*sigh*
So where Gene Roddenberry took aesthetic inspiration from the murals of Arthur F. Mathews, the architectural precepts of Paolo Soleri, and the idyllic society visualized in the center panel ("Ecclesia's Paradise") of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delight triptych for his 23rd century city, J.J. Abrams took the Star Wars prequels for his. How.... unsurprising.
Even bigger woop.
You went back 10 months to find a post just to demonstrate that you have no appreciation for research AND that you're aesthetically bankrupt?
Geez, thanks for sharing.
Indeed!
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
"Coruscant By The Bay"...
Pretty apt description! Why does the sky look all nasty and overcast?
Doesn't make the 23rd century look particularly "green"...or eco-friendly...
A rather dreary intro to 23rd Century Earth...
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
*sigh*
So where Gene Roddenberry took aesthetic inspiration from the murals of Arthur F. Mathews, the architectural precepts of Paolo Soleri, and the idyllic society visualized in the center panel ("Ecclesia's Paradise") of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delight triptych for his 23rd century city, J.J. Abrams took the Star Wars prequels for his. How.... unsurprising.
Even bigger woop.
You went back 10 months to find a post just to demonstrate that you have no appreciation for research AND that you're aesthetically bankrupt?
Geez, thanks for sharing.
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
Even bigger woop.
You went back 10 months to find a post just to demonstrate that you have no appreciation for research AND that you're aesthetically bankrupt?
Geez, thanks for sharing.
Indeed!
I just stumbled across this yesterday, and I wouldn't have responded to it, but the pissiness of the thread-'Gene's designs aren't being followed; oh noes!'-prompted me to respond.
JJ had the money, he wanted San Fran to look like it was the capitol of an interstellar republic, and he did it! So what's your damage, guys?
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So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
Even bigger woop.
You went back 10 months to find a post just to demonstrate that you have no appreciation for research AND that you're aesthetically bankrupt?
Geez, thanks for sharing.
I just stumbled across this yesterday, and I wouldn't have responded to it, but the pissiness of the thread-'Gene's designs aren't being followed; oh noes!'-prompted me to respond.
JJ hand the money, he wanted San Fran to look like it was the capitol of an interstellar republic, and he did it! So what's your damage, guys?
How do you know what the "capitol of an interstellar republic" would look like? I would figure that any such republic would have a better understanding of "green" architecture, and would have developed a very strong "back to nature" design movement in response to the advanced technological developments.
Typically, the more advanced a culture these days the more "green" and "open space" the design sense. Dirty, cramped, industrial cities like that seen as san fran in the newest trek are a thing of the past, a development of the industrial time frame, not the technological one we are in now, or any theorized direction we are looking to go toward.
The development work done on TMP back in the day was far more along the lines of thought. Industrial centers pushed under ground, mass transit and utilities pushed under ground. Open space and green preserved above ground.
Is it the way we really will go, who knows... But it looked to possible future methods of thought, not "futureizing" the past, like star wars did, in the new movie.
I don't see San Francisco ever allowing that kind of development. The mindset of the city is diametrically opposed to that sort of overbuilding (not to mention the matter of earthquakes; not even Star Trek technology can counteract plate tectonics).
trevanian
Rear Admiral
So they were inspired a little by Corusant-so what?
Even bigger woop.
You went back 10 months to find a post just to demonstrate that you have no appreciation for research AND that you're aesthetically bankrupt?
Geez, thanks for sharing.
I just stumbled across this yesterday, and I wouldn't have responded to it, but the pissiness of the thread-'Gene's designs aren't being followed; oh noes!'-prompted me to respond.
JJ hand the money, he wanted San Fran to look like it was the capitol of an interstellar republic, and he did it! So what's your damage, guys?
Abrams' utter lack of respect for serious projections -- even fanciful serious projections -- is obnoxious.
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