In the script that was leaked before the movie came out, the android's name was indeed B9. Doesn't matter to me, since both are fairly awful wordplays. I suppose you could argue that Dr. Soong had a thing for hokey metaphors, but if they were going to use a Data twin in a movie (especially if he was to be working for the bad guy) it should've been Lore instead.
I would say that it would be completely legitimate, if a bit nefarious, to use a sufficiently equipped rocket to blow the offending advertisement out of the sky. Especially if you've devised a portable launch system that can theoretically be deployed anywhere. I fully support the right to bear arms.
But then, perhaps I'm not much of a libertarian after all.:-)
See the comment below about US fuel being dirtier than the rest of the world's. The introduction of low to no-sulfur diesel will probably drive up costs, but it'll also bring down the emissions and allow for more fuel efficient cars like the Lupo to finally be brought in.
Get the wrong person in the right place and they become a political machine.
I was just at a meeting last night about raising a bond measure for my local high school. They brought in a representative for the carpenters' union who gave a presentation on how they used their considerable political might in the past to help out similar measures. Workers are committed to their unions, and rightly so. But is it so hard to see that a corrupt leadership could taint the whole organization?
There's a lot of money to be made in Hollywood, and what with the intellectual property mania there, I think it's very likely that influental people pull strings with the unions if there's something going on that they don't like. Say, some nutty comic writer getting a director's credit on a big-name production.
I disagree. The first season or so of TNG did pretty much suck, yes. But there had not been any Star Trek on television for almost 20 years, just a new movie every 2 or 3 years. Most people were willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
I remember the first two seasons of DS9 being really boring, as well. Maybe I need to go back and watch them again, but the show really hit its stride when they finally discovered the Dominion.
Voyager is where we start to see signs of desparation on the part of the writers. There was indisputably a lot of wasted potential there. In my opinion, they should have played up conflict between the Maquis and Starfleet crew members. On top of that, once they realized that most of their new Delta Quadrant villains (Kazon, Viidians, couple of other lame one-offs) weren't compelling at all, they brought in the Borg. Ultimately a logical choice, since it was alluded to earlier that the Borg came from that area of space. But then they completely destroyed the whole mystique of the Borg since there's no way a single Starfleet ship could possibly beat the Collective (as they had been portrayed up to that point) on their home turf. On top of that, they insult the viewer by ending the series with a shot of Voyager returning to Earth but not showing the characters' actual homecoming. The only two characters I liked were Tuvok and the Doctor, but people had developed an empathy for the cast. Kinda lame that they missed the whole point of the show there at the end.
So Voyager was mostly bungled. Then we learn that the same production and writing team is doing a prequel series. My first thought was, "Oh my God they're ripping off Lucas," but the concept could be awesome if done right. So I tune into the first episode. By the time it's half-over, I've lost interest. Call me ADD, but the characters just weren't interesting and the plotline of the first episode was practically another TNG/Voyager "alien of the week" rehash. The crew didn't have the diversity and interesting backgrounds of DS9 or even Voyager. There just wasn't that much there to explore.
I tuned in a couple more times, especially when there was an episode with a gimmick that was supposed to get me interested again. The Xindi thing was pretty convoluted, especially the last episode with Archer's action-hero antics and alien space Nazis. Plus the terrorism allegory was really heavy-handed. The writers got that Trek thrives when it relates to the present day, but they didn't understand that the allegories totally fall apart when they're force-fed to you.
I also watched the Borg episode and almost laughed at how they tried to cram it into continuity. I watched the first two Brent Spiner episodes and almost cried because almost nobody on the guest cast (and even the main cast) except him gave a convincing performance. In the end, I think the best episode of the series was "In a Mirror, Darkly," because it frees them from either trying to fit in with what's come before or doing damage control for their own mistakes.
I don't know if the last sentence in your comment is referencing DS9 or Enterprise, but I have to say that considering the muddle of the Temporal Cold War and the sudden shift to another storyline, the writers DID NOT know where they were going, and thus the actors had no idea what to do with their characters. A sad, miserable waste of potential (hey, just like another prequel series that's also ending this month!).
Kirk gave his own life to save Picard and the universe. Picard couldn't even save himself from his own clone, without having one of his crew (Data) sacrifice his life, because Picard is too much of a wimp.
In the interests of fairness, I must interject that Picard's characterization in Nemesis is extremely spotty. There's no real reason for him to behave as he does, nearly destroying the ship and killing his entire crew. The "action-hero" machismo gives way to resignation, with no attempt to stop the death-ray maguffin after his clone dies. No matter what you say about Picard, I hardly think he'd give up if his crew was on the line.
That whole story was thrown together just so they could kill Data and rip off Wrath of Khan. The box office take reflects this.
I think the guy who said that it's basically a glorified decentralized chat system hit it right on the head. I read this and thought "Metaverse," and their webpage/wiki says as much. I don't think it's meant to be any sort of a coherent game, although doubtless someone will use it as such.
I think world boundaries and "streets" and other such metaphors for the physical world can be set up by using connection forwarding through other servers. For instance, if your Solipsis server is hosting a structure that's down the "street" from your buddy's server, then you would only accept incoming connections from your buddy's server. You would also block connection spoofing and maintain the illusion by checking back with his server to ask, "is XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX connected to you, and is it headed my way (trying to connect to me)?" Of course, lag issues would have to be worked out, but I certainly think it's something to work from.
I think goofy hacks will run wild, just like in Snow Crash, but server security can be set up to maintain a coherent world and keep out people you don't want around.
I don't follow your reasoning. Granted, we have seen other species go extinct, but we are the only species we know of with such a level of cognitive capacity. I think you underestimate what humans are capable of.
"Alright, I'll let those greasy nerds ogle me in that skimpy outfit, but NO WAY I'm shaking their hands! If you want me to actually TOUCH THEM, my price just doubled!"
And many of those references were to ships that look completely different from NX-01. Hell, smooth out the hull and the ship would look like it belongs in Kirk's era. I believe the Daedalus class was explicity shown on camera in TOS, not just mentioned, but there's nothing like it in Enterprise. I won't go into detail about "phase pistols" and "photonic torpedoes" vs. Captain Pike's laser pistols and the nuclear weapons that were apparently used in the Romulan War.
If they wanted to portray a sense of technology that's 100 years less advanced, I think they should've used more stories along the lines of the one with Mayweather's cargo-pilot family.
And then the writers glanced at the production bible real quick to double check the spelling of the characters' names, and said to themselves, "oh shi..."
I assumed it would be some sort of splashdown. There's got to be a lake of some kind in Montana or a bordering state, even though that might be a hard target to hit. He could've made a ground landing, but we have to assume that the Phoenix was intact since Picard says it was later placed in the Smithsonian.
The crew compartment could've detached and splashed down a la Apollo, but that doesn't make much sense to me. It would probably be uneconomical to discard all the warp technology in the main body of the craft.
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So are you proposing a strategy for Apple to break into the business market?
What do you THINK that big red lightsaber's supposed to be?
In the script that was leaked before the movie came out, the android's name was indeed B9. Doesn't matter to me, since both are fairly awful wordplays. I suppose you could argue that Dr. Soong had a thing for hokey metaphors, but if they were going to use a Data twin in a movie (especially if he was to be working for the bad guy) it should've been Lore instead.
Mac version is forthcoming. Don't know if that's helpful in your situation, but it's worth noting.
Those are both the same game. :(
You posted WMV on a site that advocates alternative OSes? Glory to the Red Horde.
You're socialists, and you use Windows Media? Thanks for the laugh, buddy.
I would say that it would be completely legitimate, if a bit nefarious, to use a sufficiently equipped rocket to blow the offending advertisement out of the sky. Especially if you've devised a portable launch system that can theoretically be deployed anywhere. I fully support the right to bear arms.
:-)
But then, perhaps I'm not much of a libertarian after all.
See the comment below about US fuel being dirtier than the rest of the world's. The introduction of low to no-sulfur diesel will probably drive up costs, but it'll also bring down the emissions and allow for more fuel efficient cars like the Lupo to finally be brought in.
Get the wrong person in the right place and they become a political machine.
I was just at a meeting last night about raising a bond measure for my local high school. They brought in a representative for the carpenters' union who gave a presentation on how they used their considerable political might in the past to help out similar measures. Workers are committed to their unions, and rightly so. But is it so hard to see that a corrupt leadership could taint the whole organization?
There's a lot of money to be made in Hollywood, and what with the intellectual property mania there, I think it's very likely that influental people pull strings with the unions if there's something going on that they don't like. Say, some nutty comic writer getting a director's credit on a big-name production.
Too bad the elements of TNG that were present in the episode were dumbed down to the suck-level of Enterprise.
I disagree. The first season or so of TNG did pretty much suck, yes. But there had not been any Star Trek on television for almost 20 years, just a new movie every 2 or 3 years. Most people were willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
I remember the first two seasons of DS9 being really boring, as well. Maybe I need to go back and watch them again, but the show really hit its stride when they finally discovered the Dominion.
Voyager is where we start to see signs of desparation on the part of the writers. There was indisputably a lot of wasted potential there. In my opinion, they should have played up conflict between the Maquis and Starfleet crew members. On top of that, once they realized that most of their new Delta Quadrant villains (Kazon, Viidians, couple of other lame one-offs) weren't compelling at all, they brought in the Borg. Ultimately a logical choice, since it was alluded to earlier that the Borg came from that area of space. But then they completely destroyed the whole mystique of the Borg since there's no way a single Starfleet ship could possibly beat the Collective (as they had been portrayed up to that point) on their home turf. On top of that, they insult the viewer by ending the series with a shot of Voyager returning to Earth but not showing the characters' actual homecoming. The only two characters I liked were Tuvok and the Doctor, but people had developed an empathy for the cast. Kinda lame that they missed the whole point of the show there at the end.
So Voyager was mostly bungled. Then we learn that the same production and writing team is doing a prequel series. My first thought was, "Oh my God they're ripping off Lucas," but the concept could be awesome if done right. So I tune into the first episode. By the time it's half-over, I've lost interest. Call me ADD, but the characters just weren't interesting and the plotline of the first episode was practically another TNG/Voyager "alien of the week" rehash. The crew didn't have the diversity and interesting backgrounds of DS9 or even Voyager. There just wasn't that much there to explore.
I tuned in a couple more times, especially when there was an episode with a gimmick that was supposed to get me interested again. The Xindi thing was pretty convoluted, especially the last episode with Archer's action-hero antics and alien space Nazis. Plus the terrorism allegory was really heavy-handed. The writers got that Trek thrives when it relates to the present day, but they didn't understand that the allegories totally fall apart when they're force-fed to you.
I also watched the Borg episode and almost laughed at how they tried to cram it into continuity. I watched the first two Brent Spiner episodes and almost cried because almost nobody on the guest cast (and even the main cast) except him gave a convincing performance. In the end, I think the best episode of the series was "In a Mirror, Darkly," because it frees them from either trying to fit in with what's come before or doing damage control for their own mistakes.
I don't know if the last sentence in your comment is referencing DS9 or Enterprise, but I have to say that considering the muddle of the Temporal Cold War and the sudden shift to another storyline, the writers DID NOT know where they were going, and thus the actors had no idea what to do with their characters. A sad, miserable waste of potential (hey, just like another prequel series that's also ending this month!).
In the interests of fairness, I must interject that Picard's characterization in Nemesis is extremely spotty. There's no real reason for him to behave as he does, nearly destroying the ship and killing his entire crew. The "action-hero" machismo gives way to resignation, with no attempt to stop the death-ray maguffin after his clone dies. No matter what you say about Picard, I hardly think he'd give up if his crew was on the line.
That whole story was thrown together just so they could kill Data and rip off Wrath of Khan. The box office take reflects this.
Like that poor Romulan ambassador.
("In The Pale Moonlight")
May I humbly suggest armed insurrection?
By chance, are you an MBA?
I think the guy who said that it's basically a glorified decentralized chat system hit it right on the head. I read this and thought "Metaverse," and their webpage/wiki says as much. I don't think it's meant to be any sort of a coherent game, although doubtless someone will use it as such.
I think world boundaries and "streets" and other such metaphors for the physical world can be set up by using connection forwarding through other servers. For instance, if your Solipsis server is hosting a structure that's down the "street" from your buddy's server, then you would only accept incoming connections from your buddy's server. You would also block connection spoofing and maintain the illusion by checking back with his server to ask, "is XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX connected to you, and is it headed my way (trying to connect to me)?" Of course, lag issues would have to be worked out, but I certainly think it's something to work from.
I think goofy hacks will run wild, just like in Snow Crash, but server security can be set up to maintain a coherent world and keep out people you don't want around.
I don't follow your reasoning. Granted, we have seen other species go extinct, but we are the only species we know of with such a level of cognitive capacity. I think you underestimate what humans are capable of.
"Alright, I'll let those greasy nerds ogle me in that skimpy outfit, but NO WAY I'm shaking their hands! If you want me to actually TOUCH THEM, my price just doubled!"
First Trek: 1966
First Star Wars: 1977
And there's no guarantee that either is completely dead. In fact, I'd say that the exact opposite is true.
Hey. Don't fuck with Aquaman. He knows what's up.
A few people speculated that Enterprise was going to end up depicting the beginnings of the Mirror Universe.
Personally, I like to think it's somewhere in between the mirror universe and normal universe.
And many of those references were to ships that look completely different from NX-01. Hell, smooth out the hull and the ship would look like it belongs in Kirk's era. I believe the Daedalus class was explicity shown on camera in TOS, not just mentioned, but there's nothing like it in Enterprise. I won't go into detail about "phase pistols" and "photonic torpedoes" vs. Captain Pike's laser pistols and the nuclear weapons that were apparently used in the Romulan War.
If they wanted to portray a sense of technology that's 100 years less advanced, I think they should've used more stories along the lines of the one with Mayweather's cargo-pilot family.
And then the writers glanced at the production bible real quick to double check the spelling of the characters' names, and said to themselves, "oh shi..."
TO BE CONTINUED
I assumed it would be some sort of splashdown. There's got to be a lake of some kind in Montana or a bordering state, even though that might be a hard target to hit. He could've made a ground landing, but we have to assume that the Phoenix was intact since Picard says it was later placed in the Smithsonian.
The crew compartment could've detached and splashed down a la Apollo, but that doesn't make much sense to me. It would probably be uneconomical to discard all the warp technology in the main body of the craft.