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For every interest group when they figure out that they can target "unwanted" groups of people. And imagine what the Nazis of Germany could have done during WWII - a virus designed to kill off everyone that wasn't pure Arian.

That would almost certainly have led to something similar to the demise of the Ikarrans as told in The Babylon 5 episode Infection

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the Ikarrans programmed their weapons not to accept commands from anyone but "pure Ikarrans." However, as Franklin points out (with a bit of disgust), there is no clear way to define a "pure" Ikarran - "no one is pure," he says. Franklin continues to explain that a coalition of religious fanatics and military extremists defined what it meant to be a "pure" Ikarran - their standards were based on ideology rather than science. (Sinclair points out the similarities to Hitler's "perfect Aryan" idea in WWII). Unfortunately for everyone involved, after the weapons killed the enemies of the Ikarrans, they turned on the Ikarrans themselves, killing anyone who didn't =perfectly= match the standards of what a "pure Ikarran" was.

it's a possibility now too, especially given the still poor understanding of DNA that we have.

So I said it's pretty irredeemable a bit in jest... I still own it on DVD despite full knowledge of the quality of the episodes.

Datalore is an okayish episode... to be honest, I don't really like it. I think the main redeeming factor of it is that it introduces Lore for future episodes. :-)

Home Soil though, I actually consider pretty good. I didn't recognize it by name when I was looking through the titles, or I actually probably would have mentioned it in my earlier post. Encounter at Farpoint is also easily worth watching for the introduction of the series but also to set up "All Good Things" (which I, at least, actually really like a lot) for the end, even though "Farpoint" was only middle-of-the-road on its own.

There are also quite a few individual moments that I like (probably some as guilty pleasures). "The Battle" had the Picard maneuver and Data's response to it. "Arsenal of Freedom" had Geordi commanding the Enterprise for a bit (and I'm a sucker for saucer separation). "Skin of Evil" has one of my favorite quotes about death ever ("death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others, which is why it is not an end"). I like the evacuation sequence in "11001001".

But in the end, if you ask me, Season 1 was on the whole just flat-out bad. It's the only season that doesn't contain at least an episode or two of my top, say, 20 episodes, unless you count "Farpoint" for its place in the whole series. (Unless I missed one, this guide puts the highest-rated season 1 episode, "Conspiracy", at #59.) And there are several episodes which at least I think are really, really terrible. You mention "Code of Honor", but for better or worse, I absolutely despise "Where No One Has Gone Before" -- I consider that as the worst TNG episode. (Looking around the internet I may be alone in that judgement...)

(Finally, I should add a disclaimer that while I consider myself to know TNG pretty well, I pretty much only know TNG, and the TOS movies. I've only seen a few other episodes. One day...)

I doubt Wikileaks "central control" is in that bunker any more than Federation Central Control "was"

Is there a self-repairing energy grid protecting the complex? If so, look somewhere else.

Why, for the love of god, is this not tagged "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"?

I wholeheartedly agree. This is exactly how Geordi got burned when met that alien posing as his mother.

No one wants that to happen to them.

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My God... you're not bluffing!

http://sttng.epguides.info/?ID=322

Somebody mod this guy +1 Informative.

This sounds a lot like the plot from the ST:TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom." Just make sure the E-Stop switch on the product demo actually works.

Why, haven't you seen Star Trek Next Generation episode - The Chase?

No this is more like an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation. A scientist about to discover something really important has a birthday and at that point, his government decided he was too old and had to be killed. It had NOTHING to do with anything but age. The scientist was one of his planet's best minds, but he was asked to give up his life and his work because he was determined to be too old by a really bad law.

http://sttng.epguides.info/?ID=270

Hmm. You're right. I was mixing Frame of Mind and Future Imperfect together. I liked both of those episodes a lot, though the ending to Future Imperfect was a bit weak. On a totally unrelated note, I like Chain of Command Parts 1&2 and The Drumhead the most I think.

Hmm. You're right. I was mixing Frame of Mind and Future Imperfect together. I liked both of those episodes a lot, though the ending to Future Imperfect was a bit weak. On a totally unrelated note, I like Chain of Command Parts 1&2 and The Drumhead the most I think.

HAL: I've just picked up a fault in the AE35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours.

I've seen this before. Star Trek TNG Episode 106 - "The Game". Sure it looks neat, but in reality it's an addictive mind control device meant to enslave humanity. Obviously this guy is already a slave to it.

Judging from the release date it must be the finished version of Duke Nukem Forever. After 100+ years of development it would be a hell of a game.

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Exactly! The same way that the paper-based book is (and always will be) superior to an e version in all ways (except looking busy at work when you're really screwing around,) so will paper ballots always be superior to some ephemeral electronic version. Investigators need paper ballots to avoid cracker tampering the same way we need photographic negatives to avoid Photoshop-style tampering with images. And in 3000 years, when the inks on DVD-Rs have degraded to uselessness and the magnetic material on hard disks has re-randomized, archaeologists will take pride in forcing their armies of graduate student flunkies to recount Florida 2000 yet again (Bush still wins the state, and another cow college Ph.D is born.)

how did their daughter age 6 years in 4 years?

They were out on a family picnic and she fell through a hole in the ground which happened to contain an intertemporal wormhole...

Oh wait, that was Colm Meaney, nevermind.

NUKES! BIG FRIGGIN' NUKES! There's only one way to fight a space war before phasers and photons, and that's with Gigawatt lasers/masers and BIG ASS NUKES!

You have obviously not learned the Kzinti Lesson, studied Operation Hard Rock, nor considered the weapons implications of antimatter, which we know the proto-federation has at its disposal in at least modest quantities, or the weapons possibilities of a teleporter. (NB: "Given the assumptions in (I) and (II) you don't really get a society. You get a short war.") Nor, for that matter, realized that some SF implications of 9/11 were considered at least back in 1998, over three years before the plane hit the Pentagon.

SF wars have been considered for for a long time now, and there's many other promising possibilites besides nukes. (And if you think the military doesn't pay attention, think again. They have been giving at least half an ear to what the SF guys are babbling about for a long time now.)

That said, I'm also one of those hoping this temporal cold war thing will end with one last change wiping it out of history, even though they've done that trick before.

There's lots of Trek actors as guests on Enterprise. A number of actors have had major roles on different shows, like Jeffrey Combs who's had a few roles. Try to listen to the voices more.

There's lots of Trek actors as guests on Enterprise. A number of actors have had major roles on different shows, like Jeffrey Combs who's had a few roles. Try to listen to the voices more.

There's lots of Trek actors as guests on Enterprise. A number of actors have had major roles on different shows, like Jeffrey Combs who's had a few roles. Try to listen to the voices more.

There's lots of Trek actors as guests on Enterprise. A number of actors have had major roles on different shows, like Jeffrey Combs who's had a few roles. Try to listen to the voices more.

> But as it stands now, I just don't think anyone's gonna care too much about my
> /. password when I'm gone. Least of all, me.

You don't have any friends who could post a message in your journal, or info page? Besides posting "I'm dead" messages, I'm sure you have some data that your friends would like to have. Someone is going to do something with your corpse and estate when you die, even if you don't have dependents.

As for Trek, it's obviously only the conformists that even think about enrolling in Starfleet... The average people you see running around on earth don't wear Human uniforms. (unlike the members of some poorly thought-out alien cultures, which aren't too common recently.) It is really weird that everybody wears their uniform most of the time, though. There are a lot of things that seem pretty hokey about the Trek universe, besides the made-up-on-the-spot physics of the later series.

However, I was actually talking about the Workforce I and II episodes. (plot synopsis). Basically, there's a factory that mind controls their "employees" after capturing them away from their previous lives. It makes you wonder just exactly what's wrong with everyone being happy, even if it is because of mind control. This kind of thing has come up in other Trek episodes, but not with the ship's crew. I seem to recall an episode where Voyager (or maybe Enterprise) came across a utopian society that didn't have a clue about anything, because the computer ran everything. This is not a new idea for SF.

this episode is my favorite, too.

it sits right next to ep. 124 (call to arms), which is also quite cool. self replicating mines, heh.

None of them ever really seem to subject the captains to any serious moral dilemmas

I take it then that you never saw the sixth season DS9 episode "In the Pale Moonlight"? That episode defined "captain facing serious moral dilemmas".

Besides building Eniac

Forget Eniac, I want Orac on a chip...

For all those who need an example of "running the gauntlet", may I suggest The Icarus Factor.

Olde News; Commander Bruce Maddox tried to disassemble Data in an episode of ST:TNG entitled The Measure of a Man. It turns out AI is indeed sentient. Of course we all knew that, recall when Data hammers Tasha Yar to multi-orgasmic bliss in the episode The Naked Now. That episode alone proves that AI is more than just a glorified lube-smeared vibrator.

Nothing to see here.. move along.. next story please.

Although this habit actually served him well in TOS. Any fan of WW II movies will notice that Balance of Terror was an unabashed ripoff of The Enemy Below. But it's a different audience, so what the heck.