My take? Donatra's a pragmatist. She'll do whatever she thinks will garner her the greatest advantage. Sure, the classically villainous thing to do if Picard made it across the Bassan Rift would be to let Shinzon tear into Starfleet, then finish what he started, but it's not the sensible thing. Star...

I don't know how many of you will recognize this one, but the Berserkers from the Fred Saberhagen novels. Hideously powerful self-replicating automated starships bent on destroying all organic life. They don't want your land or your resources. They don't want your loyalty or obedience. They don't wa...

Lt. Staplic wrote:well, we're DITL, when we want to wank, we know how to wank

Words cannot express just how much I'm tempted to use this quote as my new signature.

Adding to the Hong Kong goodness from a different direction, I'd suggest Dragons Forever starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yun Biao. Jackie plays a womanizing, somewhat corrupt mob lawyer hired to convince the owner of a fish farm to either drop her lawsuit against his factory owner client or se...

Bit of a delayed response, but I play Left 4 Dead on PC. Mostly single player at work - have I ever mentioned I love my job? - but I play online at home now and then. I go by TheWolfmanLives on Steam - yes, one word.

The character wasn't introduced by David Mack, was he? I just ask because in the Star Trek: Vanguard novel Reap The Whirlwind , he introduces us to Ensign Jeff Anderson of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, a slacker with an odd obsession with hockey. Also introduced is his friend, Ensign Brian O'Hal...

I can see DITL gathering, and a Borg attack: we'll all set our phasers on overload and the explosion will take out half the city! (eh, what's that? S'not real? Darn.) :girl: I can just picture that. The city's in ruins, the Borg have lost countless current and potential drones, and even the Klingon...

No question from my point of view: I put my back against something, fire my phaser until the drones adapt, and then it's overload time. With any luck, the blast'll take some them with me.

Wouldn't be my choice, but I just remembered an incident a couple of years ago where a girl dumped her guy by calling the local radio station he apparently listened to at work... to request Bye Bye Boyfriend by Fefe Dobson and dedicate it to him. The DJ was laughing about that for a good month after...

I've gotta say, I'm not as pissed off about this as I was at first. The more I think about it, the less this bugs me. Gutfeld's a jackass, without a doubt, and the things he said about our soldiers were definitely offensive. At the same time, though, I've watched the YouTube clip of the segment and....

Yeah, but after five or six most folks can't tell the difference between the cheap shots and the good shots anyway, so you might as well... Heh, anyhow, what's next for the Doctor? A book tour. He's gained sentience, explored the Delta Quadrant, commanded a starship, defeated the Romulans, foiled at...

Hell, even if they hadn't thought of using a timer, you'd figure there'd be someone on the ship willing to stay behind and make a heroic sacrifice both to save the Ocampa and to ensure their crewmates made it home within their lifetimes. Starfleet officers are always doing that kind of thing. All it...

No celebrations for me, but about once a year I borrow it from a buddy and spend a few days watching the whole thing from beginning to end. Actually, I'm about due.

Yeah... I could get into that. Besides, I could always volunteer for the Anla'shok a year or two down the road, or see if Garibaldi's taking applications for station security when they boot the Nightwatch out.

She's from the Babylon 5 universe, where Chekov got to be a menacing smartass and Admiral Layton got to be a good guy.