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I saw it during a screening as part of the "Star Trek Mission New York" convention last September.  Loved it, but Leonard Nimoy is one of my idols.  Adam was on hand, and did a panel or two.  I stopped him for a photo ironically while I was waiting in line for his girlfriend, Terry Farrell!  I then mentioned to her that he'd directed some great Sliders episodes, and she was like, "wow, I didn't know that."

Anyhow, I think Nimoy decided during the 1980s that he was never going to get work outside Spock, so he might as well direct.  He was a great man, and had a passion for Star Trek unlike any other actor.  He was arguably the 2nd most influential figure in Trek production history, after Gene Roddenberry, in terms of where the TOS went.  Brought many ideas from his life and background.

I would assume the best quality remains the first issue Universal DVDs, which are dirt cheap on Ebay.  Granted they will take up a lot of shelf space, but if you're on this forum, odds are this is a key show for you.

The media are just the worst of all, that's for sure, which is why I no longer watch ANY political television!  The economy is actually very strong, but the way of the world is automation and robotics, the latter we spend no money on in this country.  It's all over seas technology.  It sucks, but at some point we have to realize that pumping oil is a thing of the past.  Digging for coal is a thing of the past.  We should be investing in renewables much more, because the Chinese will run laps around us while Trump is stacking his cabinet with oil industry billionaires.  Xenophobia was very critical for Trump, just as it is for the right in Europe.  The problem is they blame globalization which is not the cause.  If anything "sharing" the wealth has helped more out of poverty AND kept them in their home countries.  No, what's done it is destabilizing regimes.  Bush, Obama, Clinton, they're all guilty of this.  But they are controlled by the war machine, and good luck to Donald on that account.  Also guilty is his new buddy Vlad Putin, who has destabilized Syria, assisted in a likely genocide there, etc.  Again, I think Trump has the potential to bring believably uneducated policies that can wreak havoc on the economy as well as the environment.   Climate Change, which brought on massive droughts, was the match that lit the Syrian war.  It will happen again, and in more places.  To deny it is simply insane.

Suicide Squad is a good example, because almost immediately word got out that Jared Leto's role was basically evaporated in the editing room.  This angered a lot of prospective movie goers.  Also, I kind of feel "cheated" by these things.  It's one thing to be Ridley Scott, who always seems to have a "director's cut," because I feel like his movies are complete as they are.  In many cases, they are his own edits, not the studio meddling.  Even as good a movie as Rogue One is, you hear about all these reshoots and edits, and wonder what it looked like originally?  Personally I hope we DON'T see those, because I just feel like those weren't the movie.  George Lucas butchered his films multiple times over.

Not for nothing, but if you can't make a good, complete movie in 110 minutes, you failed as director.  Wish someone had control like that over Peter Jackson, it *might* have made his movies watchable.  Snyder had 153 minutes and couldn't do it!  I don't know if I could bear a THREE hour cut!  Ha ha ha.  I suppose I'll have to give it a shot, though I loathe buying blu-ray's.

Firstly, Pelosi is in charge, yes.  The point though was that there was enough of a backlash that it's been suggested this is likely the last go around for her, Hoyer, and Clyburn.  They're all in their 70s anyway, and need to step aside.  As for corruption, I think it's more about the DNC at the highest level.  The entire party is not corrupt, it's just the central core which was stacked with Clinton loyalists.  Wasserman-Shultz should never have been in charge, she was absolutely heinous to then Sen. Obama in the media.  Donna Brazile is another crook, who's on the way out.

Now, as for performance, one thing to remember is that even though Republicans pulled out the Senate, most of those were very close races, which could have gone either way.  There's no doubt, the FBI much with Hillary plus the Russian's hacking the emails had a negative affect on the Dem results.  Similarly, Trump flipped four rust best states with very slim margins of 1 or 2%.  So again, it's not like Trump swayed massive of amounts of people.  He did NOT.  He has no mandate, he was preferred by less of the electorate.

I watched BvS the other day, it was terrible.  Zack Snyder is awful.  I really enjoyed Man of Steel, so this was a huge letdown.

As for Megan Fox, not a fan of her acting, but she's usually pretty nice to fans, so that's a plus in my book.

They cast Soniqua Martin-Green from The Walking Dead.  She's terrific on that show at least.

CIA says Putin interfered on behalf of Trump.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … p-win.html

Trump names Putin's buddy and CEO of ExxonMobil as Secretary of State.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … -NEWS.html

Wiki has her as the captain of a different ship, and only recurring.

Problem is the series is supposed to be show week by week, so the 30 day trial wouldn't help unless you waited for the completion.  They've casted 3 leads, namely veteran actors Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, and Michelle Yeoh.  Very strange that the Captain of the vessel doesn't seem to be a lead.

Train wreck

Well Trump is taking credit for saving less than 1000 of the 2100 Carrier jobs they were moving to Mexico.  In response, the parent company will get regulatory favors, not to mention who knows how much $$$ from the state of Indiana.  Bravo, I guess?  Trump said he'd save ALL the jobs or Carrier would be paying a TAX for moving to Mexico!  Clearly Mike Pence is running this show, not some anti-establishment trade warrior.

I think there are some easy explanations.  First of all, many of SQ's questions probably get answered in some of the off-shoot novels, comics, games, etc that accompanied the film.  I don't bother with those though.  As for the Jedi/Empire, the old Expanded Universe pretty well established that ROTJ was not the end of the Empire.  It continued on, and was still very lethal.  Perhaps it will be fleshed out, but clearly it seems the "New Republic" failed in some fashion that hasn't been discussed. 

PS: On Marvel vs. DC fan reactions.....Marvel has never been held to a high standard, because they were an abject disaster for decades prior to Avi Arad's arrival.  DC has history that is constantly being compared to, whether in cinema or on television.  Also I think DC fans are more like Star Trek fans, they are very knowledgeable and picky.

96% of the audience has not and will not ask those questions of the film.  The film made billions of dollars, and so will the sequels.  JJ tried to recapture the "feeling" the original films gave the audience, and he achieved that pretty well.  I would agree that the people calling for the film to win awards were OUT OF THEIR MINDS!  But it was enjoyable nonetheless, and I look forward to Rogue One and the other films.

Ha ha!  It's possible the deadlines could be extended by a judge...

Honestly I don't know what the end game truly is for Jill Stein, who is not a Democrat.  She also wouldn't guarantee the money she raised would go to recounts.  I think Hillary's involvement was merely to "give it a blessing" or at most provide some legal advice.  Obama does NOT want the recount, they wish to work on the transition with what seems like an ever-bickering, inexperienced, and confusing Trump transition squad.

I think it's a bad precedent, whereby all future elections will have to go through costly recounts.  On the other hand you could argue that the goal is to force the state's to greatly improve their electoral systems in general.  That all said, it's tough to imagine a buffoon who claims millions of dead people have voted against me needs to be worried about an asterix from this process.

I think it's a waste of money (recount), but once again Trump acts like an infantile dufus by attacking the process.  He ought to welcome it, and commend the "extra mile" to prove our system works as intended.

I saw a little bit of Gotham during S1, fell behind, and kind of gave up.  Then I decided to binge and catch up awhile back.  I wound up really enjoying S1, and didn't really get put off by the haters who had bashed it at the time.  S2 was really good, I thought the characters and the actors were terrific.  So far S3 I've also enjoyed, particularly the growing team of Bruce and Selina.  Chiklis and Jada Pinkett have been great guests/recurring. 

Now I'm a bit biased, because I've met these actors a few times, and they were nothing but awesome in person.....Robin Lord Taylor alone keeps me watching.  The guys is both hilarious and nutso!  Corey Michael Smith is devious, one of the best Riddlers I've ever seen post-Gorshin, and Drew Powell and Sean Pertwee are great too.  Drew in particular was great, I met him at a con in NJ, and he didn't have a big line, so we traded Indy 500 memories (he's from there) for awhile.

Then there's the women!  Jessica Lucas and Erin Richards, wow, wow, wow, those two alone would make for a great series!  Erin is just plain terrific as the maniac Barbara Kean. 

Because they shoot in New York, I feel this show can incorporate so many of the local character and stage actors, many with a substantial resume, like Peter Scolari, Richard Kind, John Doman, David Zayas, BD Wong, and more.  Then to spring in with Paul Reubens and Melinda Clarke, also great.

I don't know where the show goes from here, in terms of its production future.  The ratings are not exactly great.  I hope it keeps going.

Honestly Kerr I wouldn't complain if they retired ALL franchises!  Let's get back to how they made and distributed movies 30-40 years ago! 

Abrams lack of Trekness was not an issue.  He didn't write the script, that was supposed fans Orci and Kurtzman, who've yet to turn in a film script that wasn't dog poop.  JJ had a vision for Trek in theaters in the 21st century that would appeal to the masses.  He was successful in that respect.  The franchise has been crap though due to bad writing, or a lack of writing in favor of bad jokes, CGI, and CGI. 

At this point, I wonder if the new series even gets off the ground?

I definitely remember a crouteru handle, I think.  Hi again.

If you recall, the Peck/Dial braintrust decided to reinsert the Kromaggs as the chief bad guys, and as they were full of plenty of lazy thoughts, this is what you got.

None of these people terrify me, because I know they are largely cowards!  Quite a bit of evidence there.  However, the deep ties/chains to lobbyists for the energy, Pharma, banking and other industries is really the large concern.  Both parties are ruled by these interests.  McCain Feingold was gutted by a conservative Supreme Court, and until something similar is written to law, it will only get worse. 

I think the Democrats are actually in an interesting position, IF they truly can finally purge themselves of the Clinton camp.  This seems likely.  Will they be further left?  Probably, but to be honest, it's clear populism is IN. 

As for Trump, I found it funny that the "Prediction Professor," who has a perfect Prez election record, has now said he expects Trump to be impeached at some point.  We'll see about that, but his team is perhaps the most insular I've ever seen.  They are loyalists first, experience second, an incredibly big red flag.  They have already tried to hide from the press, and we saw how they acted during the campaign. 

To me the gravest threats posed to the American people are due to climate change and cyber attack.  The days of nuclear and even foreign terrorism being high on the list are over.  You're much more likely to have your personal identity and even finances stolen from cyber terrorists.  The nation's economy is at very HIGH risk as well, due to hacking.   I felt like Obama did nothing about this, and Trump will do even less, especially after benefiting from Wikileaks and refusing to point the finger at Russia as EVERY intelligence service did.  Climate Change is the #1 threat, to both the United States and the world.  The amount of death and financial destruction is second to none.  GOP has been so bad on this, it is frankly treasonous.  They are in the pockets of the energy industry, and nothing has gotten done.  Trump will likely reverse the orders Obama has given on this, driving the US and the world into the abyss much sooner.

Problem is sure people despise Hillary, but obviously too damn DUMB to not be duped by an ego-maniac in Donald Trump.  Sorry, they're that stupid, as Donald himself joked last winter.  "How stupid are the people of Iowa?"  Pretty dumb.  John Kasich would have won this thing by 10 points.  But because he behaved like an intelligent, sensible, if "dull" person, they ignored him.  The Breibart's and the Drudge's have done nothing but poison the electorate.  They've made reasonable, experienced, rational public officials with a conservative lean afraid for their lives.  How many instances?  Trump went after hispanics, POW's, women, Muslims, our NATO allies.  He went after Republicans.  He torched the Bush family.  He praised Vladimir Putin.  At NO point did the Republican side check him.  He grabbed some pussy alright, he grabbed a party of pussies and tossed them into the garbage shoot. 

So yeah, Hillary will win.  Frankly I don't want to hear the "evil" shit or whatever.   Evil.  Give me a break.  Trump's buddy Putin has actually had opposition "disappeared."  That guy is "evil."  The turd who runs Turkey, he could be called evil.  The maniac in North Korea, evil.  Clinton has raised money, she and her operation have put in tremendous amounts of work on the ground.  I worked briefly in politics, there's still nothing more important than a good ground game.  She might be over-ambitious, but evil?  Donald Trump is a loud mouth bully who has plunged political discourse, civility, and public service into the abyss.  Americans get exactly what they ask for.  They were too afraid to back the "socialist" Bernie Sanders.  They were too afraid to back centrists such as Kasich.  Candidates with far more respect than the current two. 

The Obama's have ZERO scandals after 8 years.  They've represented the American people well.  His popularity is well earned.

Wow those DVD's look like crap.  Packaging is garbage.

He's gearing up to "move" his followers to a new media empire, aka Trump News or whatever.  It's clear this has been his aim for a long time, maybe the ENTIRE time.  He has no interest in actually being elected President. 

That being said, refusing to accept the official results nationwide, especially results that are likely to see him CLOBBERED, is disgusting, unconstitutional, and most importantly DANGEROUS.  He has inflamed quite a few crazies along the way, and if he goes forward with this rigged shit, one could only imagine the violence that may well ensue.  To light a match on a fuel full of hatred, anger, angst, desperation, etc., is very bad.  This was perhaps the most irresponsible moment in the history of the American Presidential electoral history.  Even I never imagined he would be this vile and pathetic.  I cannot wait to see his face on November 8th, after losing in a landslide.

Wow, nice research!  His selling the DVDs are fine by me then.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-el … ks-n666656

It's this degree of infantile behavior that time and time again disqualifies this **insert swear word** from being elected dog catcher let alone President.  I'm sorry, I don't want to be represented by a real life version of the fictional Vince McMahon.

Hillary is not attacking Syria.  Frankly there's nothing left to attack there.  She'll be rebuffed by Congress regardless.  Also, it was Trump who said the other night that our nuclear arsenal was suddenly out of date, and that Russia were upgrading theirs.  This was not only false of course, it was ludicrous.  Another arms race?  Come on.  As for the Supreme Court, I think the GOP made a huge gaffe by refusing Judge Garland, because I personally feel he is moderate if not slightly conservative, and if Hillary wins, she can nominate another Ginsberg and there's little they can do about it.

Trump supporters chant jail her, they have shirts calling Bill a rapist, while Donald says the election system is rigged, the polls are fake, he lies without repent.  If we allow this guy to succeed after running a campaign that resides in the sewers, what does that say about democracy going forward?  Reward the guy or gal who can lie the most, rile up the most people with falsehoods and bigotry?  The same guy who has been reported to have next to no attention span, and limited interest in actual policies?  At some point, you have to take the stand that the decency must win out.  We cannot reward him, and be left with an autocrat like in The Philippines.

As I've said from the start, as bad as Hillary is, she will not be a daily embarrassment to the United States.  Trump would be.  His rally last night was clear evidence of that, as he ramped up the lies.  This is a guy with an out of control ego, who would challenge the Constitution from day one, and probably wouldn't make it very long before both parties called for impeachment.