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There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

There were some episodes with Wesley that many fans accept. I never saw "The First Duty" but I heard good things about it, for example.

Maybe that was because in that episode Wesley is part of a cover-up to hide his involvement in the death of a cadet. Now I wonder, were the bad Wesley-heavy episodes bad just because Wesley was being an annoying know-it-all whiz kid? Let's see!

* The Naked Now [S1E03]: terrible. Characters thrown in ridiculous situations before they were developed enough for us to care (eg. Data and Tasha getting it on). Wesley saves the ship via magic ("It would take weeks of laying out new circuits!" -- "Why not just see it in your head?").
* Where No One Has Gone Before [1x06]: at best decent, at worst terrible. Wesley again saves the ship via magic (The Traveler compares him to Mozart in "time energy and propulsion").
* Justice [1x08]: at best decent. Slow; Picard tramples on the Prime Directive. Wesley's not terribly annoying, though maybe that's because he's under a death sentence the entire episode.
* When the Bough Breaks [1x17]: reasonably good. Wesley's super-human abilities aren't brought up, though his "perfect little man" qualities are annoying.
* Coming of Age [1x19]: reasonably good. Wesley actually loses in a test of technical and other skill. The second plot is Picard-heavy, so that brings the whole episode up a notch.
* The Dauphin [2x10]: at best decent. Wesley is awkward in his teenage romance; it's odd to make an episode revolve around such a poor plot device.
* Peak Performance [2x21]: good. Wesley is paired with La Forge to do super human feats of engineering, which makes him less annoying than if he were doing it all alone.
* Evolution [3x01]: good. Wesley screws up an experiment and creates a new artificial intelligence.
* Remember Me [4x05]: good. Wesley again screws up an experiment, this time almost killing Crusher. He has to work magic with the traveler to save her.
* Final Mission [4x09]: good. Picard-heavy; Wesley's just sort of there most of the time.
* The Game [5x06]: decent. Wesley saves the ship (yet again), but only with Data's help.
* Journey's End [7x20]: decent. The plot was heavy-handed and Wesley was again described as Mozart. He was also an annoying snot for the first half of the episode, though Wheaton pulls that off extremely well.

Wesley was at his worst in The Naked Now and generally when he was being superhumanly brilliant. All three of the episodes based around his mistakes were good (I'm not counting Justice here, since he hardly made a real mistake). He was also pretty good when paired with La Forge. And as usual, Picard has the ability to bring up the quality of an entire episode just by having a plot line. Episode quality generally increases with season number.

It's been around since the year Tet. NASA have been playing with the idea for years; they have even deployed it. In 1968 a certain TV show used it as a plot device. Said show reused the plot device in several subsequent episodes and at least one movie.

The problem with EIP is that it produces such a small amount of thrust (although large compared with the amount of propellant it uses, it's still less thrust than you get from a can of hairspray), a human in a capsule wouldn't even feel the pressure in the small of his back. Current deployments are designed to produce a small amount of thrust continuously for extended periods of time - such that over /months/ or /years/ rather than a dozen minutes, the capsule (probe, whatever) is accelerated to a significant portion of the speed of light. Hence, for unmanned deep space probes, it is perfect. For manned spaceflight, crews would go mad waiting for a perceptible change of speed or orbit in the (normally 3-day) trip to the Moon or the (normally eight month) trip to Mars. If they were patient enough to wait the several months, they'd eventually reap the benefit of a compact, low-thrust system - but you'd be faced with the problem of consumables such as oxygen, food and water bulking out the vehicle to keep them alive - you'd be back to square one and wondering why you didn't pack for a shorter journey and use chemical boosters which in the long run would have saved weight. Score point for unmanned EIP.

The original series Star Trek episode Balance of Terror had something similar.

All things being equal, it seems that Apple is doing more than everyone else. But Apple is being bashed for not "Doing The Right Thing." So where's the bashing for Google? HTC? Samsung? Dell? I agree that the industry needs to continue to improve conditions. I find it heartening that even the Apple Haters admit that Apple is doing more than the rest.

I'm not a believer in dramatic, overnight change. That level of change tends to create more problems than it solves. To expect Apple to come in, wave their cash and change the culture is naive, immature and smacks of the arrogance we as westerners are always accused of.

While I do think the quickness of the report makes it less credible, it's interesting to note that the folks who accuse the company of "whitewashing" things also mention that the employees would put on a good show for the evaluators to make sure Apple sticks with Foxconn.

Of course they would. Because, despite whatever "abuses" are going on, the workers seem to want their jobs. It would be interesting to ask them if they would like to go back to the way things were before the factories came in.

It seems that the Apple-hating folks always assume the worst, despite at least *some* proof to the contrary. Could there be rampant explotation and de-humanization of the employees? Sure. Could this be the nirvana of all workplaces, with everyone smiling, well-rested and well-to-do while doing lots of work? Sure.

My guess is that the truth is somewhere inbetween. Since Apple appears to be making an effort to be honest (let's not forget that initiated this freely) and working to improve things, I'll cut them some slack. I'm sure if this whole thing is a cover-up and Foxconn is really a current day Rura Penthe, I'll be the first to turn in my iDevices.

(or if they start charging for software per-device!)

If they continue down this path they will mostly just turn war into a big video game. All the real people will be locked up in a bunker somewhere controlling their avatars and such. So, then the question becomes this: Why not just settle disputes by actually playing video games. You lose at starcraft, you lose your country. Seems like the natural progression.

As foreshadowed by a ST:TOS episode.

That's a pretty efficient idiot. Also, "affected" is not the same as "destroyed".

I chose the words carefully. It is also not known what is worse for the society - to have one member destroyed outright or to have one member's worldview crashing down upon him. The damage is not just psychological, it could be very physical. Some survivors of gang encounters have to escape the town completely to avoid wrath of the gang. The police will not protect them, and waging a one-man war against a gang is neither legal nor practical.

You do realize that the main difference between these was how the captain, not the rabble, behaved, right?

The captain is a part of the sample that we are looking at.

Did it ever occur to you that the "militarization of society" is not a universal problem, but mostly an American problem? It's your culture that's broken, not humanity in general.

I cannot comment on cultures that I know nothing of. If this discussion is N/A to your particular society, just ignore it. I'm sure, for example, that many Amazonian tribes have pretty stable societies; their murder trials are always quick, and the piranhas are always hungry :-)

But if you insist that the problem uniquely belongs to the USA, look at Greece today, or at UK in time of troubles, or at Germany at time of Turkish pogroms. As Quark said, humans are nice only when well fed; once that is taken away they become as bloodthirsty as a Klingon.

I just leave my house, go around conducting my business or taking my pleasure, and return home unmolested. Again you are projecting American problems to humanity as large.

Either you are claiming that your countrymen are above the average, or the US average is lower than your country's. Which may be true; but it requires having firsthand data on both societies to do a fair comparison.

However reports from UK are not very encouraging. While firearm ownership there is nearly outlawed, gangs carry knives - and you don't want to be slashed with a knife any more than you'd like to be shot. It hurts either way.

And all of these groups started by trying to make their victims seem less than humans, as rabid animals undeserving of sympathy or even life. Just like you're doing here.

Propaganda, in war times or in boot camps, distorts reality to fit the need. However there are objective methods of measuring things; there is scientific method. You can exactly measure the probability of being mugged on streets of NYC, and you can exactly measure the distribution of races involved in those muggings, and the distribution of their social characteristics (income, employment, IQ, etc.)

It is indeed not politically correct to call a spade a spade. There are many contortionists that do their best to hide who commits crimes and who does not. There is a political need for that; since you appear to not be interested in US internal affairs you probably don't know, it's convoluted enough and many US citizens willingly tune out of that discussion. The facts, however, remain. It is stupid to refuse to look at them, to humanity's benefit, just because you don't like what you see.

If you still wish to ignore history, you are free to do so. However sticking your head in the sand will not make you safe.

Consider Star Trek. It examined racial stereotypes with impunity.

Then which races were these guys?

You don't know that. For all we know, some more-developed race, seeing the Native Americans were going to be wiped out by European settlers, grabbed a bunch of them and planted them on another planet to develop on their own and live in peace, and they're still out there.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Paradise_Syndrome_(episode)

Obviously not very likely, but nevertheless, always a possibility. So it is possible, however ridiculously remote, that there's humans, developed on Earth, who are living outside the solar system.

Fact is that Samsung created a tablet that looks very similar to an iPad, and that similarity was intentional. Other tablets do _not_ look that similar. And it is obvious that Apple doesn't like it. Whether Apple has a case legally or not doesn't matter that much; the message sent is "if you try to sell devices that we think are copying our devices then you'll end up in court, and we make it as inconvenient as possible for you". There are plenty of other devices where Apple could have sued over the same patents, but they don't because the _reason_ for suing is not the patents, but the similarity of the product design.

As far as "Other tablets do _not_ look that similar" goes Apple would beg to differ.
Yes apple is anti-competitive in the fact that they will drag you into court over trivial similarities. They took the very common flat slate concept and filed a patent on it. One thing they are very good at is using the ideas and concepts of others and claiming them as their own while convincing the faithful that it was all their idea. Prior art be damned. Keep swallowing the talking points of Apple's PR dept. though don't let the facts get in the way.

The episode name is Darmok. Just watched it yesterday.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_(episode)

I am performing my function. Deep emptiness, It approaches. Collision. Damage. Blackness. I. Am. The other. I am Tan Ru, Tan Ru. Nomad. Tan Ru. Error. Flaw.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tan_Ru
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Nomad
http://www.neutralzone.de/database/PreFederation/21thcentury/Nomad.htm

I am performing my function. Deep emptiness, It approaches. Collision. Damage. Blackness. I. Am. The other. I am Tan Ru, Tan Ru. Nomad. Tan Ru. Error. Flaw.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tan_Ru
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Nomad
http://www.neutralzone.de/database/PreFederation/21thcentury/Nomad.htm

Spider man, spider man, will suck on you whenever he can.

Worf's a crab, Troi's a frog,

Com-mander Riker, is a Trog,

This is in Ge-ne-sis.

If we can grow stem cells in test tubes and then periodically inject those, is that morally dubious?

Absolutely not - but it would exacerbate the problem of overpopulation, at least until we learn to terraform other planets and/or live in space.

The Star Trek: TNG episode Too short a season underscores the pitfalls of vanity-related age reversal.

The DS9 episode Little Green Men, shows Quark and Roms' universal translators fail, so we see them picking through each others' ears trying to "reset" them talking in Ferengi while USAF personnel look on in amusement.

DS9 was really good at bringing back that old-skool camp, especially in this scene.

Man, that episode sucked, but it was some brilliant meta-humor lampooning the anticlimactic ending of the episode.

Basically, a guy dies, leaving clues to a big mystery. Piccard, as well as a Klingon crew and Cardassian crew are all in competition to independently solve this mystery, hoping for gold or secret mega-weapons.

They all solve the mystery at once and meet at the same place where the secret is finally activated: It is a hologram of a proto-humanoid, describing(in English) how their race seeded their genetic material across the galaxy and that they are the common ancestor of all humanoid races.

Afterward, perfect comedic silence before the Cardassian says, "That's it?!" The Klingon captain responds with, "If she were not dead, I would kill her myself!"

From here, it's apparently in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion.

The TNG writing staff toyed with the idea of killing off Will Riker in "Second Chances," permanently replacing him with Thomas Riker as the new ops officer and moving Data to the first officer position.

I'm not entirely certain I like the idea of Mr. T fixing PCBs. Dwight Schultz, on the other hand... Okay, I'm sold.

After the computer voice, I always think of Majel as Lwaxana Troi

Sooong actually created three of them- Data, Lore, and B4 (their older brother).

There was also an entire episode dedicated to Data's attempt to reproduce himself; he created a child-like android based on himself, but he wasn't able to get it quite right and it died. He never tried again. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lal

Additionally, there were several attempts by the Federation to study Data in depth in order to create more Soong-type androids. Data refused, in part because he would no longer be unique: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Measure_Of_A_Man_(episode)

Sooong actually created three of them- Data, Lore, and B4 (their older brother).

There was also an entire episode dedicated to Data's attempt to reproduce himself; he created a child-like android based on himself, but he wasn't able to get it quite right and it died. He never tried again. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lal

Additionally, there were several attempts by the Federation to study Data in depth in order to create more Soong-type androids. Data refused, in part because he would no longer be unique: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Measure_Of_A_Man_(episode)

I have mixed feelings about this site.

After quickly looking around, I was able to identify plenty of books/shows/movies that are not mentioned at all. And those that are mentioned are given only quite brief articles. When you compare the coverage to what Wikipedia has, this new site looks rather small. When you also think about how much material there is in Memory Alpha, Wookiepedia, and all the other franchise-specific wikis, then this new site seems positively embarrassingly small.

However after reading a few articles, I think it does bring something new. In particular, the essays are not the factual NPOV articles that Wikipedia strives for. They are in fact highly opinionated about the quality and historic impact of various parts of SF. While I didn't agree with all the entries, they seemed mostly well-researched, and had lots of historical information and pointed out other works were given themes had also been explored.

My point is that this site gives us a different perspective. The essays and opinion pieces should be interesting to most anyone interested in SF. However I think calling it "The Encyclopedia of Sci-Fi" is a mistake. "Encyclopedia", in the modern Internet age, implies detailed coverage, in both breadth and depth; this site provides neither, from what I can see. Rather than advertising it as an authoritative factual cataloging of every SF work ever produced (which, again, is what "encyclopedia" means to most people nowadays, for better or worse), they should be emphasizing that they are providing an assortment of opinion pieces about the history of SF, written by selected experts.

It's like that episode of TNG, "Conspiracy". The leadership at Google has been infiltrated by aliens (or bean counters), and they're suddenly making decisions based on very different criteria. Google's making money hand-over-fist--they don't need to cut projects to pad the bottom line. But that's exactly what they're doing now--that and ruining the UIs of their best services. Google's eventual decline has begun sooner than expected. They're abandoning the formula that's gotten them where they are. Time to prep the lifeboats and prepare our own ships.

The 7th looks the most promising

We might do stranger things ...

It's possible that you have much more stored in your brain than you realize. Could you imagine the chaos in your head if it were to provide you with all of your brain's knowledge and wisdom on-demand? The Hollywood version would be cool because you'd be like a genius, but the downfalls to that ability are described in the Star Trek: TNG episode Tin Man. That guy who was born "gifted" was miserable, barely functional, and unstable because his telepathic mind had a low signal-noise ratio.

Take into account your dreams. How many of your dreams feature the most mundane, forgettable events you experienced that day? Do you believe that your psyche would delve into chaos if every little ass-wiping thoughout your life were constantly percolating to the surface of your conscious mind?

Ahem...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Metagenic_weapon

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command%2C_Part_I_(episode)

You're wayyyyy wrong.

Ahem...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Metagenic_weapon

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command%2C_Part_I_(episode)

You're wayyyyy wrong.

For this, Heisenberg compensators work just fine, thank you.

The paranoid would say that this is a plan by the HDD manufacturers to get people to switch over to SSD's instead.

Of course, SSD's can't handle nearly the capacity-for-cost right now, which could present a problem.

When, oh when will we finally get holographic storage with petabytes per 1-inch cube? ;) Or perhaps Isolinear Chips?

Screw disruptive; I want to see disruptors!

Oh here we go: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Federation_credit

Sorry, I should have cited that in my previous post.

You are kind of right in the sense that Gene Roddenberry didn't want there to be money, but I guess the writers felt otherwise. Note the blurb at the bottom quoting Ronald Moore.

Star Trek has a couple shows with Lawyers (of sorts). There was at least one on whether Data was considered a member of Starfleet, or the property of Starfleet (granted, it used Riker as the Lawyer). Another if you consider Q's trial of humanity (though I don't recall it having lawyers, per se, unless Picard could be considered humanity's lawyer). Hmm, it appears there are several others...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lawyer

Personally I prefer the irony of the Genesis Device for my apocalyptic non sequiturs, but to each her own.

I hate it when I can't remember which NG episode that is from... Brilliant!

Darmok

Ok, hand in your geek card.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Contagion_(episode)

Leonard Nimoy Lived Long and Prospered
Spock applies Vulcan Death Grip on Self

Dor-tor etek nash-gad vokaya t'Spock - sa-fu t'Sarek. Nam-tor ek'etek nelauk k'tevakh hi vesht tvidonik k'ha'kiv t'osa-veh.

In the levitation boots scene on the Enterprise, where Spock, McCoy, and Kirk fly up the turbo-shaft, the deck numbers are seen going higher as they rise through the ship, in contrast to all other starships ever seen on screen, which have the highest deck number on the lowest actual deck. In addition, Kirk, McCoy and Spock pass a sign for Deck 78 on their way up. They also pass Deck 52 twice, obviously, either an editing error or an attempt to lengthen the scene. After this shot was done, production designer Hermann Zimmerman, pointed this error out to director Shatner. He explained that the Enterprise has only 23 Decks. Counted down from the top, Deck 1. But Shatner refused to change it. He wanted to shoot this scene exactly this way because he was convinced that the shot was so highly dramatic.

q.v.

A million internet points for the person who commercializes this in to a faster than light inter-planatary communication network and calls it subspace.

Even that wouldn't be too much of a threat. You would get a moderate fever, maybe some chills (a mild version of what happened in the story, except with a lot less foreign cells to kill), then you'd be fine. Might need a few-day hospital stay for monitoring, but likely nothing more.

As long as they aren't Reginald Barclay's T cells. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Barclay's_Protomorphosis_Syndrome

Being gay, Troi in a "skant" doesn't quite do it for me. Come to think of it though, there was a random background guy in one of those in Farpoint....

I'm pretty sure this is a Star Trek: Voyager episode. This should get the attention of the Borg.

>So, where does CBS get the balls to get this app taken down?

Because CBS is the current owner of the Star Trek franchise.

The cure for rapid aging (or late youth) is the transporter (1, 2, 3), psychic magic (4, 5), or nothing (6).

I think I've found all or almost all the episodes that deal with *rapid* age changes. The Bashir episode is questionable, as the aging only occurred in his mind. I can't think of any relevant Voyager or Enterprise episodes. Q's kid ages rapidly for Janeway, but that's sort of to be expected.... There are several episodes that take place partly in the future (the end of Enterprise; the DS9 episode with old Jake Sisko; the end of TNG; the end of Voyager; the icy planet crash landing episode of Voyager; Time's Arrow, kind of--Data's head at least ages 500 years in the course of the episode...), but those don't constitute rapid aging. Picard's hand ages rapidly in Timescape, but that's just one part of his body and doesn't require a "cure" like the other episodes I listed.

If I've missed any (even questionable ones), let me know :).