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Voyager always had better ideas for episodes than they had episodes. They're the poster child for good concept/bad execution.
I recently finished a DS9 rewatch and had the same problems with it I did the first time. Too much time spent on mundane topics. O'Brien infiltrating the mob, Bajoran religion, Vic Fontaine, trying to fix the Ferengi, AAAAH. Can I have some science fiction in my science fiction, please?
Roddenberry's "vision" changed quite a bit between TOS and TNG. Look at Ensign Martine weeping in the Enterprise chapel for her dead fiance during BALANCE OF TERROR and try to reconcile that with the notion that Federation people have evolved beyond grieving. Compare Kirk's handwaving of the Prime Directive in FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY and RETURN OF THE ARCHONS to Picard and Janeway sentencing whole worlds to destruction through slavish devotion to it.
Of course a lot of Gene's "vision" for TNG came from fans of TOS rather than the other way around. He thought he was giving people what they wanted with TNG, much like he did when he created TOS as "Wagon Train to the Stars".
Going back to the question of whether the Sliders are superheroes, I recently started reading The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero by Jess Nevins. It's a fascinating look into the history and antecedents of the modern comic book hero. Nevins claims the defining characteristic of a hero to be a selfless mission. I don't think that describes the Sliders, whose primary mission was always to get home.
The languages and the translator thing were very inconsistent. Picard would sometimes throw in a French phrase or even Qapla' when speaking to a Klingon and it somehow knew he didn't want it translated. It was also advanced enough to translate figures of speech without turning them into "The wine is good but the meat is spoiled" or some such. Luckily none of the aliens we ran into had sayings that got mangled in a literal translation.
pilight, I didn't mean to ignore the links you posted. They didn't show up as links when I first read the post for some reason.
The thing to note is that the article keeps referring to violent crimes, which require a criminal to threaten a victim. This would not include a lot of border crimes, including (but not limited to) illegally crossing. It wouldn't include burglaries, trespassing, shoplifting, or any number of crimes. Not to split hairs, but if we are looking at crime statistics, you can't discount most types of crime.
Also, I doubt that illegals stay in border towns once they cross over. That'd be a bit like breaking into someone's house and then unpacking in the guest room.
You can't seriously be suggesting we need a gazillion dollar wall to keep out shoplifters and trespassers. There must be a more cost effective way to deal with such things.
Ocampa only live to age nine. Very little about that race makes sense, however.
Unmoderated boards are all going by the wayside.
As covered before, if terrorists are the concern then the wall needs to be on the other border.
As for crime, the data doesn't support your conclusion. Crime rates are lower along the border. The wall isn't going to stop trafficking in drugs or humans as long as the CBP is working with the cartels.
Punishing people for coming here illegally because we won't allow them to come legally based on an arbitrary quota is an exercise in circular logic. It's like limiting the number of people who can use a crosswalk then arresting people who jaywalk.
Throwing open the doors didn't work? Nonsense. We had no immigration quotas on Mexico at all until the 1960's. Nobody had a problem with it. Closing the doors is what hasn't worked.
Most of the countries in this world protect their borders, and they do it a lot more strictly than the US has for some time now (not just under Obama, it goes back quite a way). The implication that securing our border is racist is silly. It's another attempt to delegitimize the man rather than discuss the issue.
What countries have built a wall to separate themselves from a close, historical ally?
I've had pneumonia a couple times. It's awful. I've been wondering if I should get the pneumonia vaccine since I seem to be susceptible to it. Although I have no idea what it'd be for since pneumonia is more of a situation than something specific.
This is my first experience with it. It's bad, but I've had worse.
Did you get a flu shot?
Yes, but what I have is pneumonia
The flu is no joke
Turns out, not the flu
The flu is no joke
pilight wrote:For someone who is supposedly not a manic Trump supporter, you do a pretty good impression of him. "I read the first bullet point of this plan and I can tell you it's terrible and we can do something better."
For someone who is supposedly way smarter than me, you do a pretty good job of avoiding everything I said in my post so that you don't have to think up an actual response. Go back. Re-read it. That's my response to you.
And I'm not going to waste my time trying to validate my Trump-doubter street creds. If you don't believe me, bully for you.
I'm not sure what makes you think I'm way smarter than you.
Your response indicates a belief that Syria is some sort of medieval fiefdom that keeps records on parchment. They have electricity, computers, and modern record keeping there.
You also apparently didn't finish even the first bullet point, or you likely would have noticed that 99% of applicants are screened out by the UN.
His moves on national security are frankly, frightening. He placed self-professed LENINIST (aka anarchist) Steve Bannon on the National Security Council, while limiting the participation of the UN Ambassador, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Director of National Intelligence. Here again, come the accusations that Trump doesn't give a damn about the facts on the ground OR diplomacy. Sorry, but this is unbelievably insane shit
That's really odd. Bannon doesn't even have a government position. He hasn't been vetted or confirmed by anyone. He doesn't even have a security clearance. And yet he's sitting in on NSC meetings.
For someone who is supposedly not a manic Trump supporter, you do a pretty good impression of him. "I read the first bullet point of this plan and I can tell you it's terrible and we can do something better."
That's a pretty terrible story. However, with some rewrites it could have become passable.
And what's the vetting process?
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/bl … ted-states
It takes two years for a refugee to go through the US vetting process, which is one of the strictest in the world.
What would you recommend that's not already included?
That is a fine conversation to have, but not when the new limitations come from people who supposedly want to open our borders, welcome everyone, and wave off the notion of carefully vetting refugees who want to come into the country.
The notion that we weren't already carefully vetting refugees is ridiculous.
You could compare these marches to the millions of people who gathered in Washington DC, and others who gathered around the country during the TEA Party rallies. But those rallies had a message and a purpose. They were about the spending, the debt, the taxation. They weren't random, directionless outrage.
They were equally ineffective, however, as spending, debt, and taxes have all increased since the start of the tea party movement. Also, the tea party was quickly taken over by social conservatives, muddling the original message of less government interference in people's lives.
anyone who compares any of this to Nazis or Hitler is crazy. Those monsters killed millions of people. There is a rather large difference here.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta … 2781060096
Are we living in Nazi Germany?
Yep, crazy.
The most striking thing about the inauguration is how sparse the crowd is
Disney could release a movie that is nothing but a chimp eating a banana for two hours, and the world would cheer them on as long as it had "Marvel's" or "Star Wars" before the title (don't get me wrong, there may be examples of good work from each franchise, but there are also definite weaknesses that nobody cares about)
It's not that they don't care, they are just willing to overlook the problems because of the elements they enjoy. Fans nitpick Star Wars films to death.
If you can't enjoy media in spite of its flaws, what are you doing posting here?
Social media is more politically extreme because it's dominated by younger people, and younger people tend to have a less nuanced view of the world.
all Predator entries after the original Predator are a waste of time
I enjoyed Alien vs Predator quite a bit
Yes, the reason why he mocked this particular reporter is what's important, not the repeated act of mocking people like a 3rd grader. This is who you wanted representing your country to the world.
Sometimes it's easy to pick the better film: Grease 2, Son of the Mask, Blues Brothers 2000, etc.
Sometimes it's tough. Alien and Aliens are movies in different genres. How can you compare them?
And then there's those times when you disagree with the crowd...
I'll take Star Wars over Empire any day
Temple of Doom is the worst Indiana Jones film
Harold & Kumar's 3D Christmas is the best of that series
Rocky Balboa is the best of the Rocky sequels
Superman III isn't that bad
Perhaps, but we have viable alternatives to cable. At the moment, we don't have anything that compares to those forms of energy, aside from maybe nuclear, but there has been a big push to keep nuclear power from being used. The funny thing is that in a lot of ways, nuclear power would be that magic bullet energy source. But the people who are trying to keep it from being used aren't the oil companies (who, again, aren't nearly as powerful as people make them seem), they're the environmentalists and politicians who create regulations.
Politicians create regulation largely at the request of their contributors, like oil companies. That's why they contribute, after all.
Coal and Oil are to energy production as cable is to broadcasting. Relevant now, but doomed to extinction in the not too distant future.
We can't just pretend that we're beyond using oil and coal.
We also shouldn't pretend that there's any future in them. Coal consumption in particular has been dropping dramatically, despite the increase in energy needs.
Trump is not going to run again.
That's another weird thing... White supremicists have much more history with the Democrats, yet they're always talked about as though they're a Republican problem. Historically, Republicans are the ones who have fought harder for equal rights.
Though at this point, there probably aren't enough white supremicists around to matter anymore.
Ancient history. There's a reason Strom Thurmond and his ilk switched from the Democrats to the Republicans.
The white supremacists who always support the Republicans have gotten more press this time around.
I wouldn't trust any news from Facebook.
If terrorism was truly Trump's #1 concern, he'd be building his wall on the other border
More isn't always better. Sometimes it's just more.
Nothing says outsider like having the head of the RNC as your chief of staff...
I genuinely hope that he does the job well. We don't win if he proves me right by being a bad choice.
My hope for Trump is the same as it is for every president when they take office. I hope he's the best one ever. I hope four years from now he's so beloved that no one wants to run against him.
Trump wants to replace Obamacare with Universal Health Care. He's said so repeatedly. He said it on 60 Minutes. He said it during the first Republican debate. He said it in his book, The America We Deserve. That's what you voted for if you voted for Trump.
Trump has outlined a plan for his first 100 days in office
I did not expect a bulletin board of "Sliders" fans to overwhelmingly support Trump. That's my biggest takeaway from all this.
Does the board overwhelmingly support Trump? I count like two posters who are in his camp.
The Demos rigged the primaries to guarantee they would be running their weakest candidate, and last night they paid the price for it.
We're so close now! Predictions anyone?
I pick
Clinton 322-216
Popular vote 49-44
Senate 50-48-2 Democrat
House 231-204 Republican
Trump has never been in a position to make a life-or-death decision. He's 70 years old and has never done anything for anyone but himself. There's no indication that he has ever cared anything about anything south of 42nd Street.
I'm the exact opposite of Informant. Clinton is very bad, but Trump is even worse.
Clinton will win big
You keep the mystery by limiting their appearances. One or two episodes per season, max. We had seven Kromagg episodes in Season Four, eight if you count Asylum.
Create a writers bible for them, so that everyone knows who they are, what they do, and why. All we know about them from Seasons 2 & 3 are what they told the Sliders in Invasion, which may not be true, and what alt-Quinn said in The Other Side of Darkness, which may not be accurate since he's lost his mind.
I keep thinking that I should write a one-man stageplay show about a lead character who is myopically obsessed with a cancelled TV show at the expense of all else in his life.
They say you should write what you know...
Maggie certainly did come a long way and was a very enjoyable character by season 5, even season 4. Sometimes by season 5, it's hard to believe that she wasn't an original character.
Maggie actually appeared in more episodes than Wade or the Professor. Well, Wade is tied with her if you count Requiem.
The fact that we can't even get good third party candidates makes me think we need to tear the whole presidential process down and start over. No one good wants the job. Just moron after moron after moron.
Our "first past the post" presidential system discourages smaller parties. We'd be better off with a parliamentary system.
Slider_Quinn21 wrote:If she's not, expect the swing the other way to be massive.
It won't happen. People will continue to vote for the same garbage over and over expecting that their lives will somehow change for the better the next time. It's insanity.
Some people's lives will be better in four years. Some will be worse. Hardly any of that will be determined by the occupant of the White House.
You can't blame the other party when your party has control of all three branches.
Sure you can. The Republicans have been doing it since they lost the senate in 2006. They had full control for the first six years of the Bush administration and it was a disaster.
Trump will concede. He's playing the media just like he did with the Birther thing. That's what the "I'll keep you in suspense" nonsense is about. He'll have a big press conference, they'll spend an hour or so listening to hype for whatever new project he has going on (Trump TV, probably), then he'll do a quick one sentence concession at the end.
As for 2000, the worst thing that happened in response to Bush being declared the winner was his motorcade getting pelted with garbage on inauguration day. I doubt we even get that this time around.
Trump saved his worst for last in terms of debate performances. Just brutal.
Agreed about Assange being a danger.
But Trump isn't wrong. We have election officials admitting as much on video. We have Clinton campaign workers discussing how they are fine with discarding republican voter registrations, or not providing republicans with mail-in ballot options. It's no secret. In past elections, we've had well over 100% of the voters in some towns, all voting for one party.
The election is rigged. The system is corrupted. The question is, how rigged is it?
OTOH, we've had Republican governors and legislatures purging eligible Democratic voters off of the rolls.
None of this is anything new, nor should it be shocking to anyone who has been paying attention.
Asking for a birth certificate isn't unusual when someone is running for President.
Yes, it is. It had not once ever happened before Obama's election, nor has it happened in this year's election. That's the very definition of unusual.
And in a perfect universe, we would discover that both Trump and Hillary are actually not U.S. citizens and therefore, both are disqualified from being President. Then we could just. . . start over.
--Chaser9
And yes, I do enjoy just posting random, crazy things in this very serious thread.
Being white, they don't have people demanding to see their birth certificates. We take them at their word that they are natural born US citizens.
I'm still voting for Gary Johnson. He's honest enough to make up for his lack of international knowledge. My vote in the presidential race is irrelevant anyway, thanks to the Electoral College.
She would have beaten Ben Carson. Any of the GOP contenders would have taken her, IMO.
The problem is that many of Hillary's crimes are directly linked to his crimes. She threatened his victims and used her power and her connections to shut them up.
There are many more crimes to go after, but nobody seems to care about breaking laws or endangering national security. For some odd reason, people can brush that aside. But her threatening rape victims plays against her feminist image. That could be more damaging.
People care, they just don't have a viable alternative. If the GOP had nominated a real candidate instead a circus sideshow they would be winning big.
Even if they did find other world with Kromaggs, that doesn't mean they would automatically join the Dynasty. Think about what the reaction would be on our Earth if humans claiming to be from another dimension suddenly appeared in highly advanced ships. How many people would support becoming part of their empire?
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