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What a schlemiel this APK is! Truly a shandah for the goyim.

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Oh. My. God. I can't even tell you how hard I laughed after reading these two insane screeds of yours. Either one of two things is going on here:

1) You're kidding around and trolling, which would be funny all by itself because it REALLY seems like you're serious
2) YOU'RE ACTUALLY SERIOUS, which is possibly the most lol thing I can imagine

You have managed to singlehandedly wipe out any credibility you've ever had, alllll by yourself. And you have the nerve to call ME "paranoid" simply for calling you out on your little case of multiple personality disorder? As a philosopher from the late 40's might say (Daffy Duck, of course), "It is to laugh!" Wow. What are you going to do for your next trick, Alex? Start quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

Hey, if nothing else, Jews are hot. Come on, APK! Embrace your inner bagel nosh!

Sincerely,
StarKruzr McRubenstein

You know, you're right. The movie was first. It was series writers who thought most of that.

The movie writers probably thought something like: "hey lets do a movie and put Snake Blisken and an Academic Indians Jones in outer space fighting Egyptian aliens..."

After the semi-successful movie, the SG1 series writers then probably thought: "Well Snake's (Kurt Russel) Agent says he's not available for TV work, lets get McGuyver, add a ridge-challenged Worf and Some science hottie babe. They looked around and didn't find anyone with big enough breasts who could do a military scientist type and eventually settled on Amanda Tapping who is buxom enough (NSFW and it's a joke) to satisfy most geeks while being able to speak two technobable sentences in a row without too much embarrassment."

It wasn't until later that they hired 7 of 9 and put her in a leather bodice to be Worf's (T'elk's) babe de'jour. With the series writers thinking "Wow ratings are good, but they could be even better, if we add even bigger breasts to the cast. Who's on the Sci-fi big boobs call list? Oh yeah, Jeri Ryan (7of 9)"

Note BTW that, snideness aside, I love the Stargate and Atlantis Series and while I do claim to be sarcastic, I don't claim to be very funny

Then you would have The Terminal Man.

Possibly it was hard for you to see past it. I found him to be an interesting character with plenty of depth, e.g. the whole issue of his bravery/cowardice, his past, etc. Making him bisexual was bold and unusual, just like giving the Doctor a northern accent.

Dr Who doesn't need fans who live solely in the past, matey. Get out. See the world. There are people exactly like Captain Jack in it. (In fact there are more like Jack than there are like Leela, who you nostalgic "no-sexuality!" pillocks seem to have conveniently forgotten)

Anybody else have visions of the Greg Bear book "Blood Music" when you read this?

http://www.allscifi.com/Topics/info_5673.asp?BSID= 17562821

As opposed to what T'Pol has?
Not that I mind having something to appeal to my baser instincts, as long as you can do it while actually telling a thoughtful SF story. And frankly, Bujold's the only author in SF who's had anything new and thoughtful to say about sex since about 1975. Yes, the repetitive calisthenics are fun, but so what?

Robert A. Heinlein's book.

Didn't they use something like this for storage in the first Star Trek? I seem to recall they different colours!

You're thinking of Captain Pike. One bit of information can answer any question in the universe!

Did this get modded down? Here's proof

Dr. Charles Forbin has completed work on the greatest computer ever built: Colossus. The city-sized mainframe, built into an impenetrable Western U.S. mountain, independently controls the American nuclear arsenal. Coldly, rationally, it will assess threats to the U.S. and take action if necessary. The president tells the world such a computer, independent of human weakness, will create lasting peace. That lasts for only a few days when Colossus discovers his Soviet counterpart and begins communicating. Once merged, they tell U.S. and Soviet leaders that the foolishness of the Cold War must end. By threatening nuclear holocaust, the computers -- collectively called Colossus -- engineer assassinations and isolate governments. Dr. Forbin is put under house arrest. From his private rooms, he begins a mental battle with Colossus. He invents a sexual relationship with assistant Cleo Markham and Colossus unwitting provides Forbin with a confederate. Human efforts to short circuit the nukes are discovered by Colossus who punishes the earthlings with nuclear detonations. As Colossus makes a global broadcast announcing its intention to enforce peace through strength ("Freedom is an illusion," it says), the film ends.

The plot for episode Three, tentatively titled "Revenge of the Sith", is now known. The movie starts with Count Dooku taking Chancellor Palpatine "captive" and Obi Wan and Anakin "rescuing" him, and Anakin killing Dooku in a duel. After the supposed rescue (remember, Dooku was really working for Palpatine), Anakin becomes Palpatine's personal bodyguard.

Meanwhile, Obi Wan goes off against the droid army commander, who appears to be an alien in white body armor named General Grevious who has four arms and four blasters. At a crucial point the clones turn against the Jedi and start killing them. Most are killed but Wookies help Yoda escape his clone trooper assassins, and Yoda wisely runs away and hides on Dagobah.

When Samuel L. Jacksonobi figures out what is going on, he confronts Palpatine, but Anakin kills him. Padme brings Obi Wan to confront Anakin. Anakin, angry at this, smacks Padme around using the force. Then Obi Wan and Anakin fight in a volcano, and Anakin falls in. Palpatine fishes him out, but he is badly burned and has asthma, so he gives him black body armor and calls him Darth Vader.

Padme, injured from being smacked around by Anakin, disgorges her fetuses before she expires. Obi Wan gives Leia to a kind Alderaanian Puerto Rican family led by Jimmy Smits, and, incredibly, gives Luke to the family of Anakin's mother on Tattooine, not even bothering to change Luke's last name from Skywalker to something else.

A young Chewbacca makes a cameo, as does the still young Boba Fett.

The movie ends with Darth, the Emperor, and a young Moff Tarkin on the bridge of a Star Destroyer watching the ongoing construction of the Death Star project.

Gentelmen, I present to you Your Queen (Keep hitting reload until you hit the naked pic.)

But he will be responsible for the Eugenics Wars. KHAN!!!

He serves people on this website now.

Here's the after picture.

And that would be Tom Baker. 'Nuff said.

I guess I like this iteration of The Doctor the most since he's the first one I ever saw.

I get BBCAmerica. Unfortunately, Doctor Who airs while I'm at work, and its in the digital band so I can't use my PC to "tivo" it. Using the VCR to record it is so "90s".

can touch Hammerhead.. he rules too much to believe.

My buddy had an AT-AT ( link 1,
link 2,
link 3,
link 4 )and we massacred that thing.. took the head apart so we could get at the electronics and mess with 'em.. we were about 8.. it always kind of walked funny after that..

Here's some posts as to why AT-AT's are 'retarded'.

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nope, it's just that damned alien probe back again...

For a couple of seconds I thought this story read "Science: Build Your Own Cyclon" and I got really excited...

Software is not sentient by any stretch of the imagination.

Says You! What about: HAL Proteus Annalee Call Robot Number 5

AND P-1 Harlie.

And of course, Eliza Blue and Fritz

Please keep your biased (bigoted?) carbon-based re remarks to yourself.

Thank you.

Note to moderators: It's a joke, get it?

Gender/Orientation: Female

Genre: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Status: Indentured servant of OmniGooch

(A subdued employee since 5/4/2002 3:34:00 PM)

Combat skills: 50% - Capable fighter

Intelligence: 50% - Somewhat intelligent

Physical attractiveness: 20% - Moderately ugly

Loves: Lieutenant Commander Data

Description: Butch security guard on Enterprise-D. Cries when put in penalty box.

Income: 35000

This servant has been traded 58 times

Occupation mandated by employer: Working as a grav-car chasing personal injury lawyer

Personal Services performed for employer: full body massager

When bad, this character is disciplined by: sell her because she disobeyed me

Earth is our birthplace, not our prison. The purpose of humanity, if we can be said to have a purpose, is to disperse life throughout the galaxy.

That's nearly a direct quote from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, a sci-fi story about a girl who fled her gated community when it was attacked by gangs and angry mobs. The dream that kept her going specifically was for humans to "take root among the stars."

I whine about "20 years" because NOBODY can be held accountable for that long if things go wrong. Even some murderers are released in less time. What if I promised I'll build you a huge, elegant mansion to live in.. but I won't be around when it's finished- how convenient! No earth can ever be broken on big, risky projects if people aren't held accountable. With a 5 or 10 year project, at least you'll have someone to blame when bad luck, incompetence, and cowardice all come together and the mission fails.

Helping coffee growers max out their yearly profits is absolutely ridiculous. It's a nice, safe mission, isn't it? I'm sure the iron men of the old NASA would be very proud. (lol)

So, here I am, slightly miffed that they didn't have a happier ending, or at least less bittersweet, but still impressed as heck by the work as a whole. "So good it hurts" is how I describe art like this, stuff that has enough tragedy in it to give it bite. Like The Warrior's Apprentice, a work by multiple Hugo winner, Lois McMaster Bujold. Or a lot of stuff by Orson Scott Card. Or other great works of art.

So, if you want to do yourself a favor, get yourself a copy of Key. It qualifies as great art by your criteria, so I'd think you'd enjoy it... :)

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