Too late, the original series already rewrote Earth's history. Of course it did it thirty-some years before that history occurred, back when it fell under the heading of prediction, so I just deal with it as everything named Star Trek (being filmed in date of production state of the art) as all having been written back in the late 50s, early 60s by a black guy (with a remarkable resemblance to Avery Brooks) working for a pulp 'zine which wasn't brave enough to publish much of it at the time because it was too "socially progressive".
"...the really obscure ones like 'When the USS Defiant got pushed out of the universe in TOS by the Tolians, where'd it go?', which is so obscure even die-hand fans probably forgot about it."
Don't know if it was co-incidence or enemy action, but a few days before and a few days after the airing of the ST:Enterprise "mirror, pt 1" the Sci-Fi channel aired the ST:TOS "Tholian Web" episode.
Or maybe Sci-Fi airs that episode a couple of times every week and I just happened to be channel surfing at the right time.
Everytime something goes wrong (like you're at home and the lights flicker) do you automatically look at your watch so that you can note the time on the program and/or transmitter log(s)?
As far as I know Ford is the only car company to have had a model called the Falcon. The point I was making (sarcastically) is that if other, competing companies could also bring out models called the Falcon it could create sufficient confusion as to be detrimental to the public as well as to Ford's bottom line.
"Being able to trademark the name of an animal is rather stupid."
Absolutely. There's no reason we shouldn't have had the Buick Mustang, the Ford Impala, the American Motors Firebird, the Pontiac Cobra, the Chevrolet Falcon, the Chrysler Thunderbird, etc. Wouldn't have created any confusion whatsoever.
"After all, who here wouldn't rather be shot dead than have someone assail their mother with a DRM'd Windows Media version of Micheal Bolton's "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"?"
Better one of his "original" numbers than one of the re-makes. How can anybody think themselves able to surpass Percy Sledge?
"...or does the government just write laws that follow their recommendations?"
It's really more the other way around.
The Federal Communications Commission is part of the executive branch of the federal government, created by the Commmunications Act of 1934. The Congress (the legislative branch) writes laws concerning those matters over which the FCC has been given regulatory power and then the Commission creates and enforces regulations designed to put those laws into effect, much as do other parts of the executive branch in their own respective fields.
Of course, as is true for laws concerning other matters as well, the laws the Congress writes aren't always the laws they thought they wrote (which is why the Commission has lawyers and not just engineers), even if they are it's sometimes neccessary to figure out how old laws apply to new situations, and sometimes the head of the executive branch, the President, has a preference as to how the Commission goes about putting those laws into effect, so it ain't easy being the FCC.
Of course the Congress does use the Commission as a sort of "outside expert consultant" to provide them with information when
Does that make "guy-gantic" an acceptable pronunciation?
The hard G pronunciation came into being because a bunch of people previously unfamiliar, earwise, with the prefix (remember Doc saying "jigawatt" in "Back To The Future"?) saw it in print in connection to bits and bytes and pronounced it the way that they thought it looked. It's kind of like alternate spellings. Once you get enough people doing it the "wrong" way, it eventually becomes, to a greater or lesser degree, "accepted".
Once upon a time anyone referring to a "weapons cache" pronounced it "kash" and not "ka-shay", but then a lot of people started seeing the word in print (again in connection to bits and bytes) and weren't aware that it's a French word with a French pronunciation.
I figure any day now I'm going to start hearing people say "kach-it" for "cachet".
"...just think I have a speech impediment and can't pronounce "gigabyte" correctly..."
Actually if you aren't pronouncing that first "g" as a "j" (like the first "g" in "gigantic"), you aren't pronouncing it correctly anyway. At least for "gigi" which shares the same etymological root as "gigantic". As far as I know "gibi" and its kindred were just made up, so who knows if there's a rule for their pronunciation.
I was about to suggest that you just watch the first 10 or 15 minutes (not counting commercials) and then decide if it's worth watching the rest of the hour, but since the obituary for the series has already been posted perhaps it's just as well not to bother.
Actually I've enjoyed the series for the most part (of course I also enjoyed some of "Voyager" whilst simultaneously being aware that it mostly stunk on ice), but "mirror, part 1" was so deliciously dark (and minus a lot of the scenery chewing seen in the mirror episodes from TOS and DS9), and, even if it was written before Gene Roddenberry was born, I didn't get to see it until after cancellation of the series was announced, so my delight in it is rather bittersweet, knowing that this new, interesting direction has no future.
Ironically enough, this was also the first episode that didn't have a ridiculous amount of audio and video dropouts and freezes, late returns from spotbreaks, etc.
So what you're saying is that you haven't actually seen it but you've already got an opinion about it that's set in stone?
I'd rather not post any spoilers so just let me say that you really ought to watch it first and then decide how you feel about it.
I'm specifically referring, BTW, to the episode "In a mirror, darkly: Part 1". No guarantees that part 2 won't fall back on polarity reversed time-traveling space nazi worm hole transporter buffer overflows to resolve everything, but part 1 was a glimpse of what could have been.
Did you by chance see last Friday night's Enterprise? The one set in that alternate universe where Starfleet is more like a pirate armada? It's like they waited until they knew the series was dead to start making good shows. I feel like Charlie Brown getting the football pulled away at the last second.
"Read Splinter of the Mind's Eye and realize how far off the mark a Star Wars novel it is!"
Is it "in the mind's eye" or "of the mind's eye"? I can't remember and I can't find my copy that I want to re-read. As I recall it was a pretty good book (especially compared to "Han Solo at Star's End".:-)
Yeah, but yesteryear is when the Fairness Doctrine, which is at the root of this conversation, was in effect. There seem to be some here who feel that even back in the day the entire television station in your community should have been able to use the publicly owned airwaves to promote whatever viewpoint they wished to and any expectation that any dissension should be aired was somehow "censorship".
There's another article floating around the 'net somewhere from a few years ago about how WKRP episodes shown in syndication had a lot of songs replaced with generic crap for finanacial reasons as well.
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Too late, the original series already rewrote Earth's history. Of course it did it thirty-some years before that history occurred, back when it fell under the heading of prediction, so I just deal with it as everything named Star Trek (being filmed in date of production state of the art) as all having been written back in the late 50s, early 60s by a black guy (with a remarkable resemblance to Avery Brooks) working for a pulp 'zine which wasn't brave enough to publish much of it at the time because it was too "socially progressive".
I don't have lots of spare decades left. I want a new Star Trek show that's better than all the previous shows put together and I want it NOW!
I also want "Coronet Blue", "Magnus, Robot Fighter", and "Total War" to come back so I can see how they turn out, too.
Don't know if it was co-incidence or enemy action, but a few days before and a few days after the airing of the ST:Enterprise "mirror, pt 1" the Sci-Fi channel aired the ST:TOS "Tholian Web" episode.
Or maybe Sci-Fi airs that episode a couple of times every week and I just happened to be channel surfing at the right time.
Everytime something goes wrong (like you're at home and the lights flicker) do you automatically look at your watch so that you can note the time on the program and/or transmitter log(s)?
The word you really wanted to use there is "coddle". And yeah, the **AAs are getting the best government money can buy.
As far as I know Ford is the only car company to have had a model called the Falcon. The point I was making (sarcastically) is that if other, competing companies could also bring out models called the Falcon it could create sufficient confusion as to be detrimental to the public as well as to Ford's bottom line.
Absolutely. There's no reason we shouldn't have had the Buick Mustang, the Ford Impala, the American Motors Firebird, the Pontiac Cobra, the Chevrolet Falcon, the Chrysler Thunderbird, etc. Wouldn't have created any confusion whatsoever.
Better one of his "original" numbers than one of the re-makes. How can anybody think themselves able to surpass Percy Sledge?
It's really more the other way around.
The Federal Communications Commission is part of the executive branch of the federal government, created by the Commmunications Act of 1934. The Congress (the legislative branch) writes laws concerning those matters over which the FCC has been given regulatory power and then the Commission creates and enforces regulations designed to put those laws into effect, much as do other parts of the executive branch in their own respective fields.
Of course, as is true for laws concerning other matters as well, the laws the Congress writes aren't always the laws they thought they wrote (which is why the Commission has lawyers and not just engineers), even if they are it's sometimes neccessary to figure out how old laws apply to new situations, and sometimes the head of the executive branch, the President, has a preference as to how the Commission goes about putting those laws into effect, so it ain't easy being the FCC.
Of course the Congress does use the Commission as a sort of "outside expert consultant" to provide them with information when
The hard G pronunciation came into being because a bunch of people previously unfamiliar, earwise, with the prefix (remember Doc saying "jigawatt" in "Back To The Future"?) saw it in print in connection to bits and bytes and pronounced it the way that they thought it looked. It's kind of like alternate spellings. Once you get enough people doing it the "wrong" way, it eventually becomes, to a greater or lesser degree, "accepted".
Once upon a time anyone referring to a "weapons cache" pronounced it "kash" and not "ka-shay", but then a lot of people started seeing the word in print (again in connection to bits and bytes) and weren't aware that it's a French word with a French pronunciation.
I figure any day now I'm going to start hearing people say "kach-it" for "cachet".
Unfortunately things have gotten to the point where it is culturally significant.
How about every time I try to use Excel it leads to the development of a blinding headache.
Actually if you aren't pronouncing that first "g" as a "j" (like the first "g" in "gigantic"), you aren't pronouncing it correctly anyway. At least for "gigi" which shares the same etymological root as "gigantic". As far as I know "gibi" and its kindred were just made up, so who knows if there's a rule for their pronunciation.
A Yugo hitting 55?
You're off a little on both the name and the rank. That's actually Major Redundancy.
Then what was the point in stocking their product to begin with?
And what would Jobs have been without Woz?
I was about to suggest that you just watch the first 10 or 15 minutes (not counting commercials) and then decide if it's worth watching the rest of the hour, but since the obituary for the series has already been posted perhaps it's just as well not to bother.
So next season is it still UPN's turn to use that timeslot to kill off a good show or does it revert back to Fox?
Ironically enough, this was also the first episode that didn't have a ridiculous amount of audio and video dropouts and freezes, late returns from spotbreaks, etc.
I'd rather not post any spoilers so just let me say that you really ought to watch it first and then decide how you feel about it.
I'm specifically referring, BTW, to the episode "In a mirror, darkly: Part 1". No guarantees that part 2 won't fall back on polarity reversed time-traveling space nazi worm hole transporter buffer overflows to resolve everything, but part 1 was a glimpse of what could have been.
Did you by chance see last Friday night's Enterprise? The one set in that alternate universe where Starfleet is more like a pirate armada? It's like they waited until they knew the series was dead to start making good shows. I feel like Charlie Brown getting the football pulled away at the last second.
Is it "in the mind's eye" or "of the mind's eye"? I can't remember and I can't find my copy that I want to re-read. As I recall it was a pretty good book (especially compared to "Han Solo at Star's End". :-)
Yeah, but yesteryear is when the Fairness Doctrine, which is at the root of this conversation, was in effect. There seem to be some here who feel that even back in the day the entire television station in your community should have been able to use the publicly owned airwaves to promote whatever viewpoint they wished to and any expectation that any dissension should be aired was somehow "censorship".
There's another article floating around the 'net somewhere from a few years ago about how WKRP episodes shown in syndication had a lot of songs replaced with generic crap for finanacial reasons as well.