Yea and no. If yo wan to be entirely pedantic abou the issue, then yes. But the point I was making is that the energy intake of the engine displayed there was the same as before. The only thing this gizmo is meant to achieve is a more efficient energy conversion rate. It would have been an alternati...

Right. Off course, the designer was offered large amount of money for his invention by the oil industry, blablabla, and when he refused they managed have him commited to a psychiatric ward. Right, this doesn't ring my crazy theorist alarm bell... By the way, the way I see it, the shimanagan presente...

Indeed, the film had some redeeming features; and further, Katefan, your premise isn't entirely accurate. The Ba'ku never claimed to have rejected machinery. As we all know, wheels, ramps, levers, and pulleys are all machines. They said they had rejected modern (from a late 24th-cent. POV) technolo...

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:A damned shame, there.

Always sad that a great man departs, but Valar Morghulis.


I think I should feel more affected about his death than ye average people, since I am from Montreal. Yet, I know about nothing about baseball beyond the game's rules. And Jackie Robinson.

You are a bit right, but I'd still favor his choice of emphasizing over the value of the villain present of the episode over storytelling pinpoints like that, as funny/insightful it would have been. Moriarty is one great villains of TNG, much stronger than Sela ever felt. +1 to Chuck for the Annoyin...

It's not just being able to read said languages casually. It's also being able to understand their financial and legal reporting, and understanding their fiscal system.

I believe there is a LOT more work after "learning the language" required to dig into another country's books.

Well, the strange thing is, in a perverse way, The Chinese Yuen needs more the American debt than the American Debt needs the Yuen. China is dependent on a way to expulse the currency it generates with it's trade surplus, or there would be either a massive inflation pressure internally (a problem Ch...

The China/America analogy is deeply flawed for a large number of reasons. The USA hasn't surrendered their monetary policy into anybody else's hands like the Eurozone members (like Greece) did. Since Germany is the one who contributes best to the Euro's financing and stability, they are the ones cal...

We don't know what they were using in TWoK, because we never saw a shielded ship hit. We do, however, know that the shields weren't the ships' only defences - part of yellow alert procedures involved activating "defence fields", which could be much more strongly argued to operate on a sim...

You may be actually be very close to the marl, Deep. For what I have read, many see the Euro as a was for Germany to keep it's neighbors relatively dependent to it's goodwill and thu prevent another gang-up on them. Germany has a history of either being divided, or when it was united all of it's nei...

McAvoy wrote:Personally, it is at least watchable compared to Spocks Brain and Space Hippies.

Which episdode about "space hippies" you are referring about? There are just too many that qualifies...

Griffin wrote:How the fuck would we know that.

You need to grow a sense of sarcasm mate

Mikey wrote:As is the idea that the UK is preparing to launch an invasion of Argentina from a base which is the military equivalent of the Nome, Alaska post office.

There is only one way to be sure,

MM Seafort and Kennedy(s), does you country intend to invade Argentinia?

Mikey wrote:I wasn't aware that anyone was fielding drones that were built to perform an air-superiority role.

I am far from saying they are. I was just wondering if anything of the kind had been presented, even if its not the sort of drone that would be the most in demand at the time.

Against the Argentinian air force's level of technology, can drones be possibly be used in an Air Superiority role, or it's nit likely yet?

I wonder how much less a dedicated Drone Carrier would cost to operate compared to an equivalent traditional carrier.