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The Agony Booth, Oh My...

A friend of mine declared himself King of the USA and said he will appoint me to be in charge of Gitmo. My response was that I'd need 535 more jail cells.

So, with that in mind, how many Agony Booths may I have???
 
A friend of mine declared himself King of the USA and said he will appoint me to be in charge of Gitmo. My response was that I'd need 535 more jail cells.

So, with that in mind, how many Agony Booths may I have???

Amazon.com has 12 of them in stock! One size fits all. :eek:
 
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The agony booth for @Spock's Barber for all of these threads.... :p

"So when you die, we all move up in rank."
Possibly, The Old Mixer's point , that I was eagerly anticipating not seeing appear in the thread so I could post it, is not that you're thoughtful enough to be sprouting threads like kudzu, but that you're premise and presentation have become so frequently repetitive of late and tend to have the impact of eliciting a majority of responses that have nothing to do with Trek. "Let your imagination run wild and be free" Whether it's nominally about Flint, Captain's Women, Gary Mitchell powers, Kryton, or the current one, among others. What kind of posts do you think you're going to generate when your proposition is set up in that manner? Married men have problems with their mother-in-laws. How revelatory and significant to Trek that is!!!

Having said that, the lion share of your threads, are posed about a specific Trek issue in the form of a standard question asking for opinions that will relate to that particular matter, or for information to be volunteered on an issue that you're wondering about. Beautiful. But this other shtick you've been rolling with lately, has gotten very old, very quickly, IMO, turns out not to be particularly funny, which I suppose is your intention in the delivery, as the submissions stream in and frankly have become tedious wastes of space and time. You're better than this, please give it the rest it so eminently deserves.
 
Possibly, The Old Mixer's point , that I was eagerly anticipating not seeing appear in the thread so I could post it, is not that you're thoughtful enough to be sprouting threads like kudzu, but that you're premise and presentation have become so frequently repetitive of late and tend to have the impact of eliciting a majority of responses that have nothing to do with Trek. "Let your imagination run wild and be free" Whether it's nominally about Flint, Captain's Women, Gary Mitchell powers, Kryton, or the current one, among others. What kind of posts do you think you're going to generate when your proposition is set up in that manner? Married men have problems with their mother-in-laws. How revelatory and significant to Trek that is!!!

Having said that, the lion share of your threads, are posed about a specific Trek issue in the form of a standard question asking for opinions that will relate to that particular matter, or for information to be volunteered on an issue that you're wondering about. Beautiful. But this other shtick you've been rolling with lately, has gotten very old, very quickly, IMO, turns out not to be particularly funny, which I suppose is your intention in the delivery, as the submissions stream in and frankly have become tedious wastes of space and time. You're better than this, please give it the rest it so eminently deserves.

Ugh. Complain to the Federation.:razz:
 
If one could not exile Donald The Thing That Goes Trump in the night to a far off galaxy, then certainly the agony booth sounds like a good place for him as he spouts off his latest nonsense, as he puts me in agony each time that he opens his mouth.

On Star Trek itself, I found that the salt vampire feeding habits on The Mantrap was a rather nasty affair.

Talk about being a-salted...
 
Picard for not using the computer virus on the Borg in "I, Borg".

Full duration.

I would give Picard full duration in the agony both if he had used it.

I am still angry at Picard for "Descent Part I". Admiral Nechayev ordered Picard to use the virus if he ever had another opportunity. Picard should have answered: "Understood. I now place you under arrest for ordering a subordinate to commit mass murder."
 
I would give Picard full duration in the agony both if he had used it.

I am still angry at Picard for "Descent Part I". Admiral Nechayev ordered Picard to use the virus if he ever had another opportunity. Picard should have answered: "Understood. I now place you under arrest for ordering a subordinate to commit mass murder."

:guffaw:

It simply doesn't work that way. You think Nechayev gave that order on a whim? She likely sat down with everyone at Starfleet and the Federation Council before giving Picard his orders. Picard trying to arrest her would've ended with the entire senior staff of the Enterprise peeling potatoes at a penal colony.

Every man, woman and child assimilated by the Borg after his failure to do his duty rests on him.
 
If the Borg are invaders making war on us, and posing an existential threat to our civilization, then I can't see the problem in making war on them right back. In my fan version, Wesley Crusher secretly saved a copy of the Iconian computer virus from S2 "Contagion." That's a bigger hammer than some weird little math problem the Borg might puzzle over and disregard. If Picard wusses out, young Wesley can still save the galaxy by transmitting the virus himself. :bolian:
 
Oh yeah, back to the Agony Booth. I would suggest Roberto Orci, yes for my view of JJ-Trek but also for his contemptuous, condescending response to fan discontent. He basically said at one point that Star Trek fans are like little children, and he is like the parent, or something like that. If I recall. Got me riled at the time.
 
Au contraire, I always take that decision as being a depiction of moral fortitude. It's easy to be a hero when all you have to do is agree with everyone else. It takes courage to say no.

The Borg were destroying entire civilizations on a daily basis, but hey, nice job disagreeing with your officers.

In my world, Picard would've been given a nice comfy desk and put in charge of sending holodeck wet naps to various starships and Federation facilities.
 
Au contraire, I always take that decision as being a depiction of moral fortitude. It's easy to be a hero when all you have to do is agree with everyone else. It takes courage to say no.
When whole civilizations including yours are facing annihilation or assimilation, you need to put the moral fortitude on the back burner.
 
Picard can sleep well at night knowing his Moral Superiority™ is more important than the lives of billions of Federation and other citizens killed or enslaved by The Borg.
 
Thus has been the argument of many tyrants and governments to justify atrocities. Usually they are wrong. This was clearly such a case given that the Federation is alive and kicking
 
Thus has been the argument of many tyrants and governments to justify atrocities. Usually they are wrong. This was clearly such a case given that the Federation is alive and kicking

That's shit. There's a whole universe out there beyond the Federation. But not only that, you are consigning trillions of beings to the continued nightmare of assimilation. As they watch themselves being used to destroy entire civilizations over and over and over and over.

The Borg are a virus that destroys humanoid life, and it should be treated as such.
 
Thus has been the argument of many tyrants and governments to justify atrocities. Usually they are wrong. This was clearly such a case given that the Federation is alive and kicking

Your post is very confusing. Because a bad person says something, it's bad no matter who repeats it? Or you are saying it's ok not to prevent the death and enslavement of the Federation citizens and other non citizens because there's more where they came from.
 
Thus has been the argument of many tyrants and governments to justify atrocities. Usually they are wrong. This was clearly such a case given that the Federation is alive and kicking
For how long? The Borg will keep coming. "They are relentless."
 
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