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Gene Roddenberry was right by greg_barton · 2012-09-24 14:14 · Score: 1 · on Milky Way Is Surrounded By Halo of Hot Gas

There is a barrier surrounding the galaxy!

Galactic Barrier by wonderboss · 2012-09-24 11:11 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Milky Way Is Surrounded By Halo of Hot Gas

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

Re:so.. A holodeck? by firex726 · 2012-09-12 06:13 · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room Projection Game Environment

Well a holodeck does use Holoprojectors.

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

Re:Not Star Trek transporters, but communicators! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-06 02:11 · Score: 0 · on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers

I'm pretty sure the communicators in Star Trek use quantum teleportation. They regularly speak with no latency over light-year distances.

Not so much.

Re:Tau Alpha C by Megane · 2012-09-05 15:53 · Score: 1 · on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship

Just don't get it confused with Ceti Alpha V!

Apparently they never watched Star Trek TOS by Proudrooster · 2012-08-22 13:32 · Score: 1 · on Google Building Privacy Red Team

If you beamed down with Captain Kirk and were on the "red team" wearing a "red shirt" it wasn't going to end well for you. I wonder if the same will be true at Google as they bring daylight into the dark corners of Google.

Re:And this is tech news by fustakrakich · 2012-08-21 06:30 · Score: 1 · on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy

where do little nerds come from?

Klach D'Kel Brakt, obviously

Pussies by EdIII · 2012-08-20 07:32 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Review: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Illustrates Nintendo's Greatest Problem

The game’s main course is ridiculously easy even by Mario standards, although there’s some challenge presented by the final level and a few of the extra unlockable courses.

Well, yeah.

I'm old enough to have played video games when the only thing you had was pong... and you were grateful for it. Kill screens were the "epic shit" of the day, and you had one, it was as revered as an Olympic Gold medal.

Video games used to be hard . They were a test of manliness and skill, not to mention perseverance.

Now it is all about psychology. Why make a video game when you can make an experience. You don't want to make it too hard, no no no. It has to be exquisitely designed to string you along till the next endorphin rush checkpoint where you have collected an achievement or unlocked something.

Clickety-clickety-clickety.

It reminds of that episode of Star Trek where the whole point of the game was to become progressively zombified. I had that same reaction with Farmville, and could swear it was some mind control experiment by the government being conducted on a massive scale. Clicking to feed chickens. Yes, that was ultimately how the government was going to control our minds.

Anyhoo, all you young games are pussies.

Ohh, and get off my lawn.

Re:Your staff by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-01 08:57 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code?

See if you can get approval to for contracting with a uniform-supply company to furnish you and your staff with identical sets of snappy-looking jumpsuits.

Something like this, maybe.

Re:Hey Apple by Lendrick · 2012-07-24 07:21 · Score: 4, Informative · on Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages

Seriously. Who would have ever thought to make a rectangualr tablet with rounded corners? It's not at all obvious, and there's certainly no prior art.

Re:Other uses? by newcastlejon · 2012-07-18 01:35 · Score: 1 · on Asimov's Psychohistory Becoming a Reality?

I hope I'm remebering the correct story...

Sounds to me like Statistical Probabilities. That's pretty much the exact line.

Way more than the USS Enterprise produces in TNG. by master_p · 2012-07-17 00:00 · Score: 1 · on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved

According to the show, the USS Enterprise in TNG produces 12.75 billion GW at any moment in time, so we have already the capability to produce more energy than that.

More info here: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-D)

This won't end well by Torgo's+Pizza · 2012-07-09 16:56 · Score: 1 · on Space Worms Live Long and Prosper

If we have to stick these worms in our ears to take advantage of this discovery, I'll pass.

Re:Dark Matter Filament by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-06 04:58 · Score: 0 · on Dark Matter Filament Finally Found

Is it something like that thing in Star Trek Generations ?

Hand over your Star Trek card. It was the episode 'Disaster' where they hit a quantum filament.

ALIENS in YOUR TUBES! Spookz Galore! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 15:50 · Score: -1 · on NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS

Implants Will Be the Norm

Regarding:

Google 'Project Glass'
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/0553247/wearable-computing-will-be-the-norm-says-google-glass-team

This technology reminds me of the ST:TNG episode, "The Game":

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

"Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game."

IMO this is part of the march, or 'slow boiling frog' dance towards The Mark Of The Beast. Gradually, 'THEY' (see George Carlin's videos on YouTube about 'our owners' and 'education') will lead us to a mandatory chip implant and a a possible global hive mind.

It shouldn't surprise anyone:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
- Google: The Mind Has No Firewall (military article)
- http://mindjustice.org/
- http://www.thehiddenevil.com/
- Wikipedia: Look up the various 'PROJECTS' other than MKULTRA, there are many, like Project Paperclip.

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Memorable quotes for Looker (1981) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, thatâ(TM)s power. "

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"The United States has itâ(TM)s own propaganda, but itâ(TM)s very effective because people donâ(TM)t realize that itâ(TM)s propaganda. And itâ(TM)s subtle, but itâ(TM)s actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but itâ(TM)s funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, itâ(TM)s funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean it really serves peopleâ(TM)s thinking â" it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
â" Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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"Weâ(TM)ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." â" William Casey, CIA Director

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"Itâ(TM)s only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because thatâ(TM)s what people do. They conspire. If you canâ(TM)t get the message, get the man." â" Mel Gibson

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[1967] Jim Garrison Interview "In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you canâ(TM)t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You canâ(TM)t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they wonâ(TM)t be there. We wonâ(TM)t build Dachaus and

THE MARK: It's coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 15:09 · Score: -1 · on NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS

Implants Will Be the Norm

Regarding:

Google 'Project Glass'
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/0553247/wearable-computing-will-be-the-norm-says-google-glass-team

This technology reminds me of the ST:TNG episode, "The Game":

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

"Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game."

IMO this is part of the march, or 'slow boiling frog' dance towards The Mark Of The Beast. Gradually, 'THEY' (see George Carlin's videos on YouTube about 'our owners' and 'education') will lead us to a mandatory chip implant and a a possible global hive mind.

It shouldn't surprise anyone:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
- Google: The Mind Has No Firewall (military article)
- http://mindjustice.org/
- http://www.thehiddenevil.com/
- Wikipedia: Look up the various 'PROJECTS' other than MKULTRA, there are many, like Project Paperclip.

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Memorable quotes for Looker (1981) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

âoeJohn Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, thatâ(TM)s power. â

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âoeThe United States has itâ(TM)s own propaganda, but itâ(TM)s very effective because people donâ(TM)t realize that itâ(TM)s propaganda. And itâ(TM)s subtle, but itâ(TM)s actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but itâ(TM)s funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, itâ(TM)s funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean it really serves peopleâ(TM)s thinking â" it can stupify and make not very good things happen.â
â" Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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âoeWeâ(TM)ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.â â" William Casey, CIA Director

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âoeItâ(TM)s only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because thatâ(TM)s what people do. They conspire. If you canâ(TM)t get the message, get the man.â â" Mel Gibson

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[1967] Jim Garrison Interview âoeIn a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you canâ(TM)t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You canâ(TM)t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they wonâ(TM)t be there. We wonâ(TM)t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentrati

CIA, hello there! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 12:10 · Score: -1 · on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome?

Implants Will Be the Norm

Regarding:

Google 'Project Glass'
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/0553247/wearable-computing-will-be-the-norm-says-google-glass-team

This technology reminds me of the ST:TNG episode, "The Game":

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

"Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game."

IMO this is part of the march, or 'slow boiling frog' dance towards The Mark Of The Beast. Gradually, 'THEY' (see George Carlin's videos on YouTube about 'our owners' and 'education') will lead us to a mandatory chip implant and a a possible global hive mind.

It shouldn't surprise anyone:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
- Google: The Mind Has No Firewall (military article)
- http://mindjustice.org/
- thehiddenevil.com
- Wikipedia: Look up the various 'PROJECTS' other than MKULTRA, there are many, like Project Paperclip.

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Memorable quotes for Looker (1981) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

âoeJohn Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, thatâ(TM)s power. â

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âoeThe United States has itâ(TM)s own propaganda, but itâ(TM)s very effective because people donâ(TM)t realize that itâ(TM)s propaganda. And itâ(TM)s subtle, but itâ(TM)s actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but itâ(TM)s funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, itâ(TM)s funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean it really serves peopleâ(TM)s thinking â" it can stupify and make not very good things happen.â
â" Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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âoeWeâ(TM)ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.â â" William Casey, CIA Director

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âoeItâ(TM)s only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because thatâ(TM)s what people do. They conspire. If you canâ(TM)t get the message, get the man.â â" Mel Gibson

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[1967] Jim Garrison Interview âoeIn a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you canâ(TM)t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You canâ(TM)t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they wonâ(TM)t be there. We wonâ(TM)t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effecti

Implants Will Be the Norm! CIA KISSES! xoxoxo by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 10:57 · Score: -1 · on Twitter Clampdown Could Impede Anonymous Tweets

Implants Will Be the Norm

Regarding:

Google 'Project Glass'
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/0553247/wearable-computing-will-be-the-norm-says-google-glass-team

This technology reminds me of the ST:TNG episode, "The Game":

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

"Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game."

IMO this is part of the march, or 'slow boiling frog' dance towards The Mark Of The Beast. Gradually, 'THEY' (see George Carlin's videos on YouTube about 'our owners' and 'education') will lead us to a mandatory chip implant and a a possible global hive mind.

It shouldn't surprise anyone:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
- Google: The Mind Has No Firewall (military article)
- http://mindjustice.org/
- thehiddenevil.com
- Wikipedia: Look up the various 'PROJECTS' other than MKULTRA, there are many, like Project Paperclip.

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Memorable quotes for Looker (1981) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

âoeJohn Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, thatâ(TM)s power. â

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âoeThe United States has itâ(TM)s own propaganda, but itâ(TM)s very effective because people donâ(TM)t realize that itâ(TM)s propaganda. And itâ(TM)s subtle, but itâ(TM)s actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but itâ(TM)s funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, itâ(TM)s funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean it really serves peopleâ(TM)s thinking â" it can stupify and make not very good things happen.â
â" Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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âoeWeâ(TM)ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.â â" William Casey, CIA Director

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âoeItâ(TM)s only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because thatâ(TM)s what people do. They conspire. If you canâ(TM)t get the message, get the man.â â" Mel Gibson

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[1967] Jim Garrison Interview âoeIn a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you canâ(TM)t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You canâ(TM)t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they wonâ(TM)t be there. We wonâ(TM)t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effecti

Implants Will Be the Norm, CIA kisses! xoxo by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 09:15 · Score: -1 · on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems

Implants Will Be the Norm

Regarding:

Google 'Project Glass'
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/0553247/wearable-computing-will-be-the-norm-says-google-glass-team

This technology reminds me of the ST:TNG episode, "The Game":

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

"Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game."

IMO this is part of the march, or 'slow boiling frog' dance towards The Mark Of The Beast. Gradually, 'THEY' (see George Carlin's videos on YouTube about 'our owners' and 'education') will lead us to a mandatory chip implant and a a possible global hive mind.

It shouldn't surprise anyone:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
- Google: The Mind Has No Firewall (military article)
- http://mindjustice.org/
- thehiddenevil.com
- Wikipedia: Look up the various 'PROJECTS' other than MKULTRA, there are many, like Project Paperclip.

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Memorable quotes for Looker (1981) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

âoeJohn Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, thatâ(TM)s power. â

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âoeThe United States has itâ(TM)s own propaganda, but itâ(TM)s very effective because people donâ(TM)t realize that itâ(TM)s propaganda. And itâ(TM)s subtle, but itâ(TM)s actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but itâ(TM)s funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, itâ(TM)s funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean it really serves peopleâ(TM)s thinking â" it can stupify and make not very good things happen.â
â" Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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âoeWeâ(TM)ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.â â" William Casey, CIA Director

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âoeItâ(TM)s only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because thatâ(TM)s what people do. They conspire. If you canâ(TM)t get the message, get the man.â â" Mel Gibson

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[1967] Jim Garrison Interview âoeIn a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you canâ(TM)t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You canâ(TM)t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they wonâ(TM)t be there. We wonâ(TM)t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effecti

Implants Will Be the Norm by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-01 08:44 · Score: 0 · on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team

Implants Will Be the Norm

Regarding:

Google 'Project Glass'
- http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/07/01/0553247/wearable-computing-will-be-the-norm-says-google-glass-team

This technology reminds me of the ST:TNG episode, "The Game":

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

"Wesley Crusher visits the Enterprise only to see everyone behaving strangely on account of an addictive, mind-controlling game."

IMO this is part of the march, or 'slow boiling frog' dance towards The Mark Of The Beast. Gradually, 'THEY' (see George Carlin's videos on YouTube about 'our owners' and 'education') will lead us to a mandatory chip implant and a a possible global hive mind.

It shouldn't surprise anyone:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
- Google: The Mind Has No Firewall (military article)
- http://mindjustice.org/
- thehiddenevil.com
- Wikipedia: Look up the various 'PROJECTS' other than MKULTRA, there are many, like Project Paperclip.

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Memorable quotes for Looker (1981) | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

âoeJohn Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, thatâ(TM)s power. â

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âoeThe United States has itâ(TM)s own propaganda, but itâ(TM)s very effective because people donâ(TM)t realize that itâ(TM)s propaganda. And itâ(TM)s subtle, but itâ(TM)s actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but itâ(TM)s funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, itâ(TM)s funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean it really serves peopleâ(TM)s thinking â" it can stupify and make not very good things happen.â
â" Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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âoeWeâ(TM)ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.â â" William Casey, CIA Director

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âoeItâ(TM)s only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because thatâ(TM)s what people do. They conspire. If you canâ(TM)t get the message, get the man.â â" Mel Gibson

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[1967] Jim Garrison Interview âoeIn a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you canâ(TM)t spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You canâ(TM)t look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they wonâ(TM)t be there. We wonâ(TM)t build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more

Re:What not to! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-20 22:10 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

"Agreed. It's the only series that's really put forth the possibility that the Federation as a whole wasn't necessarily the "good guys" that knew what was best for everyone."

But how could you *not* like root beer?

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by FrootLoops · 2012-06-20 19:25 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Ah, I love The Nth Degree. I always liked the Barclay episodes. Come to think of it, one could make a good tour of TNG out of a Barclay marathon:
* 2x03 Elementary, Dear Data (he's not in this), 3x21 Hollow Pursuits, 4x19 The Nth Degree, 6x02 Realm of Fear, 6x12 Ship in a Bottle, 7x19 Genesis

You get the Moriarty story arc as a bonus and each individual episode is decent to very good. It might be too holodeck-heavy, but that's Barclay.

I never personally liked The Dauphin, probably because the plot was so Wesley-heavy and there was no secondary tech plot to relieve my dislike. In Theory is a very interesting episode. It might be good to preface it with a more standard Data-heavy episode, like 4x11 Data's Day (which has the O'Brien's marriage as a secondary plot and isn't very hard-core science-fiction-y).

Re:Series guide by TythosEternal · 2012-06-20 18:11 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

To this excellent summary, I would add a short list of places in TNG that offer excellent entry points:
* 2x10 The Dauphin for its light-hearted humor, rounded introduction to a variety of crew personalities, and a storyline which non-Trekkies will find more relateable. Start my wife (then finance) with this one--she actually enjoyed it, which shocked me.
* 4x19 The Nth Degree for a more science-fiction episode that retains some light-hearted humor and an interesting story.
* 4x25 In Theory is where you can start to introduce some of the more serious questions of the thought-provoking 'what does it mean to be human' theme, without becoming too dry or hard-core science-fiction-y.

Re:Series guide by TythosEternal · 2012-06-20 18:11 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

To this excellent summary, I would add a short list of places in TNG that offer excellent entry points:
* 2x10 The Dauphin for its light-hearted humor, rounded introduction to a variety of crew personalities, and a storyline which non-Trekkies will find more relateable. Start my wife (then finance) with this one--she actually enjoyed it, which shocked me.
* 4x19 The Nth Degree for a more science-fiction episode that retains some light-hearted humor and an interesting story.
* 4x25 In Theory is where you can start to introduce some of the more serious questions of the thought-provoking 'what does it mean to be human' theme, without becoming too dry or hard-core science-fiction-y.

Re:Series guide by TythosEternal · 2012-06-20 18:11 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

To this excellent summary, I would add a short list of places in TNG that offer excellent entry points:
* 2x10 The Dauphin for its light-hearted humor, rounded introduction to a variety of crew personalities, and a storyline which non-Trekkies will find more relateable. Start my wife (then finance) with this one--she actually enjoyed it, which shocked me.
* 4x19 The Nth Degree for a more science-fiction episode that retains some light-hearted humor and an interesting story.
* 4x25 In Theory is where you can start to introduce some of the more serious questions of the thought-provoking 'what does it mean to be human' theme, without becoming too dry or hard-core science-fiction-y.

a fair compromise, medium risk, high return by Jaryn · 2012-06-20 17:07 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek?

Not sure this is any help. But a while back I thought my young nephews should learn about Star Trek. They had watched very little of any sort of TV, so they were up for anything, but I wasn't sure where to start. I thought classic Trek would be too old or dated for them, but they could appreciate it later, so I decided they should start with TNG because it may be more accessible for them.

But where should they start in TNG? Yes, we could start with Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode... But that is a pretty cheesy, crappy, strange episode(s). Right? Though it does introduce Q, who is a recurring 'integral' 'villain'. As a completist, you really would have to start here. (Or with TOS.)

Or I could just jump right in and show basically the best episode (or at least best cliffhanger) of Star Trek ever, The Best of Both Worlds I & II. But would it be as good an episode if they don't know any of the characters at all, and never previously encountered the Borg. In fact, so much would be lost by showing that episode first, I decided we couldn't.

So, stay with me here-- I decided to start them with Coming of Age. Now, yes, this is a Wesley episode. And it's near the end of the first season. But Wesley is not at all insufferable in this episode-- he's actually interacting in a more or less reasonable way with his fellow candidates, and my nephews are of the age (12ish) where they could actually maybe see themselves in his place, going through those tests. And while I skipped over a lot of (bad) first season episodes to get to that one, I thought I shouldn't skip the entire first season. That wouldn't be right! So this is a compromise. But most of all, the episode actually does a fairly good job of introducing the characters, through Remmick's interviews/interrogations, and we see Picard have to make a big choice; to become Commandant of Star Fleet Academy, or remain Captain of the Enterprise. (His decision??!? I won't spoil it for you!)

Its weakness (apart from being a first season episode) is that there are no big space battles or major alien encounters. But some smaller scale alien and ship things happen. And this episode is actually a great setup for one of the darkest (though sometimes still cheesy) suspenseful/ominous (though never paying off later) episodes of TNG, Conspiracy.

But before you go there, you can jump back to Datalore (to lead into future Lore episodes), if you like. Also Heart of Glory (for Klingon/Worf episodes), and Neutral Zone (actually, some say, a lead in to the Borg, but also, more obviously, The Romulans). Perhaps even Naked Now, Skin of Evil, and Encounter at Farpoint, if you're brave. But then follow this on in Season 2 with, at the very least, Q Who, The Measure of a Man, and a Matter of Honor. (And these all will effectively have formed mini-arcs.) Then you can watch (almost) everything from seasons 3, 4, and 5 without too much worry. And they will mean more when you watch them.

Anyway, long story short--my plan is somewhat higher risk, but higher return: if your girlfriend is anything like my 12-year-old nephews (huh??) get her to agree to give the show a proper chance by watching several episodes, then set her up with some of the more solid, early episodes, which you may both laugh at a bit but then she will be properly and emotionally invested when OMG Picard is Locutus! in BoBW, or LOOK Tasha is back??? in YE, or, oh no--IS SPOT GONNA BE OKAY???