RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:So my department, ship-from-store, is usually pretty slow on Saturdays. Today, two people in it called out. Guess which day it decided to be busy?

Well that sucks -- just wait til holiday shopping begins in earnest


In other news, in 3 days I become a father.

Graham Kennedy wrote:Sarah, in Carbonite!

The river Temarc, in winter.

I'm actually looking forward to this. I wasn't sold on Johnny Deposit at the end of the first film but this has me slightly more optimistic.

Who is Mister Rogers? Be very careful where you ask that question around the internet. But yeah. Mister Fred Rogers was the host of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, a children's show on PBS that aired for about thirty-one seasons. In it, Mister Rogers talked to children and taught them lessons on health...

Graham Kennedy wrote:

President Snow! The ruler of Panem, of course.

And the best part of the movie.

Mikey wrote:In general, this begs the question of why we've never seen the issue of time dilation/compression addressed in a universe in which travel at 1000's(c) is an everyday occurrence.

Because of subspace (something,) time dilation doesn't take place.

Reliant121 wrote:... I particularly like the new Romulan Praetor.

Have you read "Serpents Among the Ruins" from the Lost Era series?

I'll be honest, I'd really love an exploration of Star Trek post-Romulus. I think that opens up a lot of plot development opportunities.

Is the destruction of Romulus as described in NuTrek outrageous and ridiculous? Yes. Is there a way to turn it into good storytelling/allegories? Also yes.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:American Taliban.

Y'all Queda.

AKA, "we fucked up the Enterprise, we fucked up Pike, now we're gonna fuck up Spock!" How have they fucked up Pike yet? Only judging from the trailer (which is all they've given us to judge), but that certainly didn't feel anything like the tired, used up guy we saw in The Cage. Yes, and ...

Ant-Man and the Gungan.

I've noticed in some of the books/"beta Canon" refer to the Captain from Tapestry being in command during construction and trials, but nothing official as far as I know.

Mikey wrote:Indeed... I think if we can countenance the change from Sellers to Connery to Lazenby to Moore to Dalton to Brosnan to Craig and be willing to accept that they are all JB, a change in skin tone is hardly a deal-breaker.

But you change the Enterprise and then...

I liked the original Ambassador design better, it worked much better as an intermediate between the Excelsior and Galaxy. Alas, Sternbach thought it would be too hard to build and insisted on a design that the modelmakers could handle more easily. http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/up...

Mikey wrote:Dare I hope for an arc of the Siege of Gondolin, or the theft of the Silmaril?