No Need For Trek Anymore

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 3, 2005 @10:31AM from the where-no-one-has-gone-before dept.

dcsmith writes "In an article at the LA Times, Orson Scott Card says 'So they've gone and killed Star Trek. And it's about time.' SciFi blasphemy? Not really. Card makes several good observations about the growth of SciFi over the past 30+ years. The article also comments on several other genre gems, including Joss Whedon's Firefly." From the article: "...the hungry fans called their friends and they watched it faithfully. They memorized the episodes. I swear I've heard of people who quit their jobs and moved just so they could live in a city that had Star Trek running every day."

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Re:So They Have Gone and Killed ... by dventimi · 2005-05-03 12:10 · Score: 1, Redundant

I submit "as a single mass" as a reasonable translation of en masse from French to English, the need for which is evident to the reader who notices that neither "en" or "masse" are common English words. I doubt many people would interpret the English construction "in mass" to mean the same thing, if they even managed any interpretation at all. I conclude that the two "terms" do not have the same utility in conversation and are not interchangeable.