If it's unannounced, I don't expect them to admit to it even if it is really there. The ID on the Pentium 3 was still there as well, even though they claimed to have disabled it after the uproar.
Can't there be massive returns saying they sold a product different than advertised? A class action lawsuit?
And what if the NSA wants an ID on the Pentium 3, can they force Intel to have it, while also forcing Intel to keep quiet about it?
I know in the patriot act, the FBI now has powers to do searches without a warrent, and to order the people involved with the search to deny any knowledge you were searched. They do this with banks all the time. They search the account of Mr. T, then order the bank to never tell Mr. T that his account information was taken by the government.
Since Intel is so large, and there are not that many alternative choices (AMD), I can see how it would be easy for government to make these orders and for very few people to know.
And if there is an ID on a pentium 3 chip, how does the internet trafic comming out of a machine look any differet? Is it easy to detect and alter? Is this like the dots printed on HP's that tell the make and where it was sold, to stop people from printing money?
First, real trust has nothing to do with gambling or business. You don't have to trust in situations like that, you just have to make decisions based on previous knowledge
You are missing on how this will be abused. Marketing firms will do anything to get you to buy. They made TV so you get 12 minutes of a show you want, then 3 minutes of louder and brighter commercials. That stopped working too well, so the marketing firms started paying television show producers to place thier products in shows.
Marketing firms hire psychologists and doctors to find ways to get people attention, put the consumer in a more relaxed and willing mood to buy their product.
Look at all the commercials on television that are for weight loss. They show beautiful women and guys with rock hard abs, they praise the product like it changed their life. Then in the smallest possible letters the following is written: "atypical results". To anyone who has not scored over 700+ on the SAT verbal, that probably has little meaning, if you can even see it!!
So how will this new scent that increases trust be used. Don't be suprised if you walk by an advertising poster in a local shopping mall, and get a wiff of something that makes you really believe whatever the poster says. Je'n sait pas, mais je crois!!
But the greatest harm this will do is to make us less trusting of each other. We will become more callous and apathetic. Nuerotransmitters are not available in unlimited qualities. Once used, it takes a time until more is available. Also, since this scent works on a phisiological level, we will no longer be as trusting, the threashold for trust on a phisiological level will be increased. This is just like the tolerance for capsiacin, or hot peppers. The first time someone has a jalepenjo, it will taste much hotter than the 500th habanero someone eats, even though the habanero is 100X hotter a pepper. The first burn is always the worst, the body adjusts the threshold for a nueron to fire.
So, what will we have. More companies trying to push their product down our throat. They will blur the line between advertising and getting a physiological response. And as a society, we will increasingly become less trusting, more apathetic, and more miserable.
Why not take it a step further and have a sliding scale price system on the monitors themselves? And everything else for that matter, then everyone can buy the same amount of stuff no matter how much money they make:)
Because disposing of a monitor is not "buying something", it is a government service. When you buy something from a private source, you are spending your money on something you want. When government taxes, everyone has to pay.
Why can't people pay for government services based on "time"?
We have a risk where there will be one upper class and one lower class at extremes. Basic government services will enslave the lower classes. Take property tax for example. A "poor" person might work their asses off with overtime at their $10 an hour job for 15 years to save enough to buy a nice house. But if taxes on that property are $4000 a year, that will exclude him from buying, only the rich can afford to live in that neighborhood, without regard to the price of the house. If property tax was based on "time", then government could demand one hour of work from all to pay for local services. I would pay my $10 for the hour of work I did, you pay $100 for the hour of work you did.
If it is based on time, then half an hour of work a week would be felt the same way to both the rich and the poor. Nobody wants to throw time away.
There should be a sliding tax scale. Why should the guy who makes $10 an hour pay a whole hours worth of work to have his monitor disposed, when the guy making $80 an hour only has to pay 7 minutes of his time for the same government service??
It is not fair. One guy must work for 60 minutes and the other for 7, to have their trash taken away.
The anwser is to have a luxery tax based on income. Those in the bottom half would pay nothing. Those in the top 50% would pay some fee, and those in the top 25% would pay an additional fee.
We can work this program into the national ID system. It will have all the persons data, their fingerprints, social security number, DNA information, so why not income? When someone goes to buy something, tax can be determined then.
And I don't think we can cheat the system. Most poor people won't screw themeselves helping the rich. And if someone in the lower tax brachet tries to buy a large priced item, it will raise red flags.
Holy crap, time for me to write another letter to Ted Kennedy. I think I finally solved all our problems.
I don't think anyone on slashdot has ever thrown a computer away..
I am reading this on my 386 in a text only browser. You got something against that?
I know a guy who collects 486's. He has about 20 working machines in his basement, many with a monitor hooked up. Each computer station is manned by a G.I. Joe action figure or Transformer. My buddy goes in front of the class and teaches for 4 hours a day. It is a grueling schedule for him.
Many of his students have gone on to work for prestegious companies like Kramerica.
California places the financial burden of dealing with the electronic waste on consumers, charging a $6 to $10 disposal fee on every computer and television purchased
Can't we just send all our shit to some third world country? Hell, it is where we stole most of the natural resources anyways. Maybe if they burry it in the ground, in another 50,000 years they will have coal we can go back for.
Seriously. Why can't we use some third world nation as our garbage dump? I know I will get flamed for this. But those people don't have nothing anyways. Land in the USA is expensive, it costs too much to throw stuff away.
Look at Cuba for example. There is a country that is dirt poor and has sanctions against it. Yet the Cuban people are experts at keeping old cars running.
Maybe if we have an agreement with some African nation to take our computer garbage, they can make 1 working system for every 10 we throw out. They could set up their own buisness oppertunities, maybe open up a call center. Why should India get all the contracts?
Then a few years later, they can string together 100,000 computers to form a super computer.
I know this will get modded as troll, but we don't want it and they don't have it. It seems like a solution. All we need to do is figure a way to get it over there. Anyone know where Tina Yothers is?
SCO announced it's second quarter results Wedensday. Their net loss came in at just under $2 million. Revenue was $9.2 million (down from $10.1 million in the same quarter of the prior year).
How much did they pay their CEO, President, and all VP's? If they were not there, would that have made the company profitable?
Suprisingly, this is how most CEO's think about the workforce. Look at motorola when they laid off 11,000 workers. Then the board decided to reward the CEO with a multi million dollar bonus for his hard work.
Does SCO really need all those executives? I don't think so. If you ask me, it is the workers that are responsible for building a company, not the executives. There should be worker protection laws.
It's a 3.4 Ghz. Mobility Radeon 9800. GB of DDR400. Only 8,985 production models. Dad let's me surf porn in the basement. But not on Monday, definitely not on Monday.
I wonder what rayman did when Wheel of Fortune was on?;)
If rayman was that good with math, I wonder why he could not get a job doing something very reptitive that a computer would be too slow doing. I am sure there is a job waiting for him in a research lab. Of course, all research would be shut down for wheel of fortune so he can masturbate as vanna white turns the letters.
Do you really think that the USA is the first/only country to use power as a measurement of success?
The French don't. They are more interested in growing grapes to make the worlds best wine. It is not for money, it is for love.
It's all about money and power and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is probably selling you something.
I disagree. It is about happiness. Power is one endless journey, no matter how much power you get, you want more. It currupts the soul. It maddens the mind.
If it was not for the corporate types, that have enslaved humainty to warehouses and 40 hour work weeks, maybe people would be happier working in their garden, taking time to enjoy the warmth of the sun, or take a dip in a lake. It does not take money to do the things that make for happiness.
It is also like people who are healthy, but miserable because they think they are fat. There is a whole industry made to make you feel like shit, so they can sell you diet pills, shakes, exersize videos.
It is thought that Einstein had ADD. What would have happened if we gave him drugs?
Einstein: Leave me alone, i'm depressed!
If you read Hemingway or Faulkner or Fitzgerald, they all share one thing in common. No, not alcohol additcion. Well, yes... they are different. But what all genius writes share in common is they all suffered. One of them said "You can't be a really good writer until you have suffered".
The ones who suffer the most, they are exhaustive in looking for anwsers to why. Often they miss the *simple* social things they could do to make girls like them. But instead, they don't comb their hair, forget to use the deoderant, and wonder why they are "so alone". Then they go to the library and read Dostoevsky for meaning. "Yes, I am a bitter old man". Then they turn to Frued. "Yes, I never liked dad". Then they study math and chemistry, thinking they will make the grand daddy of pipe bombs. Then one day, they pull it all together, the literature, the chem, the physics, the biology, and they see something in a very new way. They discover something. Look at Crick and Watson. There are two guys who probably never had a really wet pussy slide down their pole. So what did they do? They studied how protiens folded, and RNA, and eventually DNA. Because of their early life suffering, they changed the world.
And let us not forget the greatest wisdom in the world. When Kirk said "I like my pain. I want my pain. It makes me who I am".
It doesn't have everything to do with whether or not the autistic person in question is going to lead a "happy" life or not, it also has to do with the time, effort, and $$$ spent on said person by the people who become legally responsible for him or her upon birth.
This is why I hope the terrorists bring down the USA. The USA is so flawed, where everything is measured in money, not human happiness.
You are a peice of human garbage. You should have been terminated.
Genetic testing will probably cause more harm than good
I agree.
Next, genetic testing before an insurance company will sell you health insurance.
Science is not perfect, it never was. I remember 20 years ago the HUGE butter scare. Scientific test after test came out saying butter caused heart attacks, and to switch to margerin. A few years ago, studies came out saying that margerin is unhealthy, and butter is better? If people listen to science or their studies, they will be eatting eggs one year, avoiding them like the plauge the next year, and then drinking them raw the next.
And like the above example, it was the margerin industry that funded those early scientific studies. They wanted to increase their sales, so they labled butter unhealthy.
Now extend this one step further. Someone HATES jews, there are tons of people out there who are racist. They decide that certian genes, only found in the jewish population, lead to certain disorders. They then use this as an excuse for terminating these pregnecies.
Next... "We think your baby has an abnormally high chance for sickle cell anemia, we reccomend termenating your pregnancy".
Meanwhile... "Yes Mr. Forbes, we agree, if we lighten the shade of your babys hair, it will bring out his eyes, and we'll make sure to add the genes which increase muscle mass, and the genes that increase IQ".
Now, which one will be the more ethical and better human being? That is something science is incapable of prediciting.
Raising a severely autistic child is a heartbreaking grind, and many people (and legal systems) consider termination to be a reasonable choice
So, science is so good now that we can predict with 100% accuracy if someone will be able to contribute OR OR OR live a happy life?
I know so many people with IQ's over 110, well educated, well employed, good citizens who are miserable. I also know one girl who is in a wheel chair, she has some genetic disorder, and she lights up a room with her smiles and laughs.
Can't we pretend that movie was never made, it sucked. It killed Kirk. It brought a villan who was not really a villan to the screen. It was horrible.
Who are enimies Picard made? What evil genius did he leave on a planet, thinking they could survive, when the planet was really barren and killed off most of the crew?? How can this evil genius get his revenge??
Personally, I want to know more about where it all began; they have so much technology in the future that
I would be interested in shows where they throw in some physics and chemistry. Real physics and chemistry. What I loved about TNG was it got me very interested in the sciences.
The USA school system just about killed the "what if's" questions I was filled with. TNG filled my imagination. I would not be suprised if many technology advances were made by people who got interested in science because of TOS and TNG.
Maybe the next Star Trek can have a huge lab component, where engineers and scientists are working with improving the Enterprise. I loved how Voyager had so many episodes where the hot Klingon chick was in engineering. If only there was some way they could have had her hook up with scottie over a few bottles of wisky.
Star Trek should spend less time on the bridge, and more time in engineering.
Of course, the fact that they've been allies with the Federation for so long hasn't helped their image either. They've grown more and more tolerant with letting the Federation dictate their policy, when Klingon common sense would've advocated no less than mass invasion of anyone that dared to mess with them.
I can't help but think, if the producers made a series before TNG, but after TOS, it would be perfect. The Klingons would be the major power and threat to the federation. There could be some very good episodes. Back when a Bird of Prey was a monsterous power, and the Federation was scared to death of cloaking.
Remember the episode where Picard gets caught in the time rift, and sees the enterprise from the past. The Captin was killed, the future was changed, they were at war with the Klingons?
Why can't they do a series on that Enterprise? It would be high tech enough because it is after TOS, but before TNG. It could have some good story lines. And we already know what the series finale would be.
One character that is Star Trek, in any time line would be Whoppie. She was on earth at the time of Samuel Clemens, and in the future with Picard. Whatever timeline they pick, I bet they could get her involved. Her species lives for how many years? Over 500??
Yeah, because Kirk has so great experience with the Borg.
Most people who had experiance with the Borg are all Borg.;)
Kirk is quick thinking on his feet. That is far more valuable to the defense.
Plus, you know there will be an order from Kirk that is not standard, there will be a clash. Someone will challenge Kirks ideas or orders. And Kirk will show why he is a stud.:)
Second star to the right, and straight on til dawn.
Please, Mr. Berman. Please get this one right. I really, really miss loving Star Trek. Star Trek is not not just about emotionless women in tight clothes... it just helps.
If the movie is a hit, you know the studio will want to produce a tv series.
I miss TNG, Voyager, and TOS too. I don't miss Enterprise (although I will admit the series end was damn good, if only the other seasons were as good as the last it might still be on the air). And I did not like DS9.
Maybe they can find his head stuck in rocks somewhere??
You know, I would like to see Data again.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek where Picards ship gets caught in a time rift, and they see an older version of their own ship. Tasha goes off to fight and die with that crew.
I loved the feel of that episode. It starts with all the crew wearing phaser belts. The Enterprise is not an explorers ship, but a war ship. And Picard admits that the Federation is only a few years away from defeat.
Maybe the new episode can have the enterprise fall into a time rift. A different universe where the common things are all changed. How about if the Enterprise fell into a time rift that took them to the time of Voyager, the Year of Hell episode.
One thing I noticed about the Trek movies is that the ones that really made you feel as if there was this huge universe out there around the characters brought in the most money at the box office. The size of the canvas seemed to be proportional to the size of the returns.
The best Star Trek movies were even numbered.
Star Trek II, was there a better villan than KHANN!!!!
Star Trek III, the search for spock kinda sucked.
Star Trek IV, was okay
The best one was the Undiscovered Country. I liked the interaction of the Klingons. It was one of the best movies, I loved the shakespear quotes. Once again dear friends, into the breach!
And is it just me, or have the Klingons gone from glorious warriors to whimps?? They used to be super strong, with ships designed for WAR. Yet they seem so weak. They are weaker than the Borg by a ton, they are weaker than most Enertrpise ships which are made to explore.
He's previously said that the film will feature a whole new cast and ship
I don't want new characters and a new ship for a MOVIE. That would be okay for a tv show, where we have years to get to know the crew.
Bring back Kirk. Find some way to incorporate him in the story.
Here is a free story to use for the movie. The Borg are attacking, in the most massive invasion ever. Kirk is retired, but is called back to help set a defesne gird. Hey, Kirk will be old enough for the timeline to work. Maybe while kirk was retired he was a police officer, so they can have him in his T.J. Hooker uniform and work Heather Locklear into the storyline. How cool would that be, to have Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise dressed as TJ Hooker, with Locklear next to him.
Janeway races back from the future, where the Borg came from. Along with Janeway is the defiant, commanded by Picard and Dr. Crusher. This could provide good romance between two very sexy actors. I have had the hots for Dr. Crusher for years.
The excitement would not come from the Borg attack, but watching the crews work together to form a defense.
And I would not mind seeing a couple of birds of prey get in the storyline.
Or, I GOT IT!!! What was the species in A Year of Hell that destroyed the voyager? Maybe they find their way to earth??
The possibilities are endless, but Kirk must be involved. Kirk IS Star Trek. Nobody can take his place.
becuase it is not. the mod most have missed the point, the reply. schools are not free. the public pays for it, through property taxes. in some places, property taxes are so high, that people can't live there anymore.
the mod must have no education and little life experience. i guess that qualifies him to mod based on opinion, because there is nothing else left.
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Can't there be massive returns saying they sold a product different than advertised? A class action lawsuit?
And what if the NSA wants an ID on the Pentium 3, can they force Intel to have it, while also forcing Intel to keep quiet about it?
I know in the patriot act, the FBI now has powers to do searches without a warrent, and to order the people involved with the search to deny any knowledge you were searched. They do this with banks all the time. They search the account of Mr. T, then order the bank to never tell Mr. T that his account information was taken by the government.
Since Intel is so large, and there are not that many alternative choices (AMD), I can see how it would be easy for government to make these orders and for very few people to know.
And if there is an ID on a pentium 3 chip, how does the internet trafic comming out of a machine look any differet? Is it easy to detect and alter? Is this like the dots printed on HP's that tell the make and where it was sold, to stop people from printing money?
You are missing on how this will be abused. Marketing firms will do anything to get you to buy. They made TV so you get 12 minutes of a show you want, then 3 minutes of louder and brighter commercials. That stopped working too well, so the marketing firms started paying television show producers to place thier products in shows.
Marketing firms hire psychologists and doctors to find ways to get people attention, put the consumer in a more relaxed and willing mood to buy their product.
Look at all the commercials on television that are for weight loss. They show beautiful women and guys with rock hard abs, they praise the product like it changed their life. Then in the smallest possible letters the following is written: "atypical results". To anyone who has not scored over 700+ on the SAT verbal, that probably has little meaning, if you can even see it!!
So how will this new scent that increases trust be used. Don't be suprised if you walk by an advertising poster in a local shopping mall, and get a wiff of something that makes you really believe whatever the poster says. Je'n sait pas, mais je crois!!
But the greatest harm this will do is to make us less trusting of each other. We will become more callous and apathetic. Nuerotransmitters are not available in unlimited qualities. Once used, it takes a time until more is available. Also, since this scent works on a phisiological level, we will no longer be as trusting, the threashold for trust on a phisiological level will be increased. This is just like the tolerance for capsiacin, or hot peppers. The first time someone has a jalepenjo, it will taste much hotter than the 500th habanero someone eats, even though the habanero is 100X hotter a pepper. The first burn is always the worst, the body adjusts the threshold for a nueron to fire.
So, what will we have. More companies trying to push their product down our throat. They will blur the line between advertising and getting a physiological response. And as a society, we will increasingly become less trusting, more apathetic, and more miserable.
Because disposing of a monitor is not "buying something", it is a government service. When you buy something from a private source, you are spending your money on something you want. When government taxes, everyone has to pay.
Why can't people pay for government services based on "time"?
We have a risk where there will be one upper class and one lower class at extremes. Basic government services will enslave the lower classes. Take property tax for example. A "poor" person might work their asses off with overtime at their $10 an hour job for 15 years to save enough to buy a nice house. But if taxes on that property are $4000 a year, that will exclude him from buying, only the rich can afford to live in that neighborhood, without regard to the price of the house. If property tax was based on "time", then government could demand one hour of work from all to pay for local services. I would pay my $10 for the hour of work I did, you pay $100 for the hour of work you did.
If it is based on time, then half an hour of work a week would be felt the same way to both the rich and the poor. Nobody wants to throw time away.
It is not fair. One guy must work for 60 minutes and the other for 7, to have their trash taken away.
The anwser is to have a luxery tax based on income. Those in the bottom half would pay nothing. Those in the top 50% would pay some fee, and those in the top 25% would pay an additional fee.
We can work this program into the national ID system. It will have all the persons data, their fingerprints, social security number, DNA information, so why not income? When someone goes to buy something, tax can be determined then.
And I don't think we can cheat the system. Most poor people won't screw themeselves helping the rich. And if someone in the lower tax brachet tries to buy a large priced item, it will raise red flags.
Holy crap, time for me to write another letter to Ted Kennedy. I think I finally solved all our problems.
I am reading this on my 386 in a text only browser. You got something against that?
I know a guy who collects 486's. He has about 20 working machines in his basement, many with a monitor hooked up. Each computer station is manned by a G.I. Joe action figure or Transformer. My buddy goes in front of the class and teaches for 4 hours a day. It is a grueling schedule for him.
Many of his students have gone on to work for prestegious companies like Kramerica.
Can't we just send all our shit to some third world country? Hell, it is where we stole most of the natural resources anyways. Maybe if they burry it in the ground, in another 50,000 years they will have coal we can go back for.
Seriously. Why can't we use some third world nation as our garbage dump? I know I will get flamed for this. But those people don't have nothing anyways. Land in the USA is expensive, it costs too much to throw stuff away.
Look at Cuba for example. There is a country that is dirt poor and has sanctions against it. Yet the Cuban people are experts at keeping old cars running.
Maybe if we have an agreement with some African nation to take our computer garbage, they can make 1 working system for every 10 we throw out. They could set up their own buisness oppertunities, maybe open up a call center. Why should India get all the contracts?
Then a few years later, they can string together 100,000 computers to form a super computer.
I know this will get modded as troll, but we don't want it and they don't have it. It seems like a solution. All we need to do is figure a way to get it over there. Anyone know where Tina Yothers is?
How much did they pay their CEO, President, and all VP's? If they were not there, would that have made the company profitable?
Suprisingly, this is how most CEO's think about the workforce. Look at motorola when they laid off 11,000 workers. Then the board decided to reward the CEO with a multi million dollar bonus for his hard work.
Does SCO really need all those executives? I don't think so. If you ask me, it is the workers that are responsible for building a company, not the executives. There should be worker protection laws.
It will happen naturally in elementary school playgrounds all across the USA.
I wonder what rayman did when Wheel of Fortune was on? ;)
If rayman was that good with math, I wonder why he could not get a job doing something very reptitive that a computer would be too slow doing. I am sure there is a job waiting for him in a research lab. Of course, all research would be shut down for wheel of fortune so he can masturbate as vanna white turns the letters.
The French don't. They are more interested in growing grapes to make the worlds best wine. It is not for money, it is for love.
It's all about money and power and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is probably selling you something.
I disagree. It is about happiness. Power is one endless journey, no matter how much power you get, you want more. It currupts the soul. It maddens the mind.
If it was not for the corporate types, that have enslaved humainty to warehouses and 40 hour work weeks, maybe people would be happier working in their garden, taking time to enjoy the warmth of the sun, or take a dip in a lake. It does not take money to do the things that make for happiness.
It is also like people who are healthy, but miserable because they think they are fat. There is a whole industry made to make you feel like shit, so they can sell you diet pills, shakes, exersize videos.
It is an endless loop. I say we break free.
Einstein: Leave me alone, i'm depressed!
If you read Hemingway or Faulkner or Fitzgerald, they all share one thing in common. No, not alcohol additcion. Well, yes... they are different. But what all genius writes share in common is they all suffered. One of them said "You can't be a really good writer until you have suffered".
The ones who suffer the most, they are exhaustive in looking for anwsers to why. Often they miss the *simple* social things they could do to make girls like them. But instead, they don't comb their hair, forget to use the deoderant, and wonder why they are "so alone". Then they go to the library and read Dostoevsky for meaning. "Yes, I am a bitter old man". Then they turn to Frued. "Yes, I never liked dad". Then they study math and chemistry, thinking they will make the grand daddy of pipe bombs. Then one day, they pull it all together, the literature, the chem, the physics, the biology, and they see something in a very new way. They discover something. Look at Crick and Watson. There are two guys who probably never had a really wet pussy slide down their pole. So what did they do? They studied how protiens folded, and RNA, and eventually DNA. Because of their early life suffering, they changed the world.
And let us not forget the greatest wisdom in the world. When Kirk said "I like my pain. I want my pain. It makes me who I am".
This is why I hope the terrorists bring down the USA. The USA is so flawed, where everything is measured in money, not human happiness.
You are a peice of human garbage. You should have been terminated.
I agree.
Next, genetic testing before an insurance company will sell you health insurance.
Science is not perfect, it never was. I remember 20 years ago the HUGE butter scare. Scientific test after test came out saying butter caused heart attacks, and to switch to margerin. A few years ago, studies came out saying that margerin is unhealthy, and butter is better? If people listen to science or their studies, they will be eatting eggs one year, avoiding them like the plauge the next year, and then drinking them raw the next.
And like the above example, it was the margerin industry that funded those early scientific studies. They wanted to increase their sales, so they labled butter unhealthy.
Now extend this one step further. Someone HATES jews, there are tons of people out there who are racist. They decide that certian genes, only found in the jewish population, lead to certain disorders. They then use this as an excuse for terminating these pregnecies.
Next... "We think your baby has an abnormally high chance for sickle cell anemia, we reccomend termenating your pregnancy".
Meanwhile... "Yes Mr. Forbes, we agree, if we lighten the shade of your babys hair, it will bring out his eyes, and we'll make sure to add the genes which increase muscle mass, and the genes that increase IQ".
Now, which one will be the more ethical and better human being? That is something science is incapable of prediciting.
So, science is so good now that we can predict with 100% accuracy if someone will be able to contribute OR OR OR live a happy life?
I know so many people with IQ's over 110, well educated, well employed, good citizens who are miserable. I also know one girl who is in a wheel chair, she has some genetic disorder, and she lights up a room with her smiles and laughs.
Can't we pretend that movie was never made, it sucked. It killed Kirk. It brought a villan who was not really a villan to the screen. It was horrible.
Who are enimies Picard made? What evil genius did he leave on a planet, thinking they could survive, when the planet was really barren and killed off most of the crew?? How can this evil genius get his revenge??
I would be interested in shows where they throw in some physics and chemistry. Real physics and chemistry. What I loved about TNG was it got me very interested in the sciences.
The USA school system just about killed the "what if's" questions I was filled with. TNG filled my imagination. I would not be suprised if many technology advances were made by people who got interested in science because of TOS and TNG.
Maybe the next Star Trek can have a huge lab component, where engineers and scientists are working with improving the Enterprise. I loved how Voyager had so many episodes where the hot Klingon chick was in engineering. If only there was some way they could have had her hook up with scottie over a few bottles of wisky.
Star Trek should spend less time on the bridge, and more time in engineering.
I can't help but think, if the producers made a series before TNG, but after TOS, it would be perfect. The Klingons would be the major power and threat to the federation. There could be some very good episodes. Back when a Bird of Prey was a monsterous power, and the Federation was scared to death of cloaking.
Why can't they do a series on that Enterprise? It would be high tech enough because it is after TOS, but before TNG. It could have some good story lines. And we already know what the series finale would be.
One character that is Star Trek, in any time line would be Whoppie. She was on earth at the time of Samuel Clemens, and in the future with Picard. Whatever timeline they pick, I bet they could get her involved. Her species lives for how many years? Over 500??
Most people who had experiance with the Borg are all Borg. ;)
Kirk is quick thinking on his feet. That is far more valuable to the defense.
Plus, you know there will be an order from Kirk that is not standard, there will be a clash. Someone will challenge Kirks ideas or orders. And Kirk will show why he is a stud. :)
Second star to the right, and straight on til dawn.
If the movie is a hit, you know the studio will want to produce a tv series.
I miss TNG, Voyager, and TOS too. I don't miss Enterprise (although I will admit the series end was damn good, if only the other seasons were as good as the last it might still be on the air). And I did not like DS9.
You know, I would like to see Data again.
Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek where Picards ship gets caught in a time rift, and they see an older version of their own ship. Tasha goes off to fight and die with that crew.
I loved the feel of that episode. It starts with all the crew wearing phaser belts. The Enterprise is not an explorers ship, but a war ship. And Picard admits that the Federation is only a few years away from defeat.
Maybe the new episode can have the enterprise fall into a time rift. A different universe where the common things are all changed. How about if the Enterprise fell into a time rift that took them to the time of Voyager, the Year of Hell episode.
The best Star Trek movies were even numbered.
Star Trek II, was there a better villan than KHANN!!!!
Star Trek III, the search for spock kinda sucked.
Star Trek IV, was okay
The best one was the Undiscovered Country. I liked the interaction of the Klingons. It was one of the best movies, I loved the shakespear quotes. Once again dear friends, into the breach!
And is it just me, or have the Klingons gone from glorious warriors to whimps?? They used to be super strong, with ships designed for WAR. Yet they seem so weak. They are weaker than the Borg by a ton, they are weaker than most Enertrpise ships which are made to explore.
I don't want new characters and a new ship for a MOVIE. That would be okay for a tv show, where we have years to get to know the crew.
Bring back Kirk. Find some way to incorporate him in the story.
Here is a free story to use for the movie. The Borg are attacking, in the most massive invasion ever. Kirk is retired, but is called back to help set a defesne gird. Hey, Kirk will be old enough for the timeline to work. Maybe while kirk was retired he was a police officer, so they can have him in his T.J. Hooker uniform and work Heather Locklear into the storyline. How cool would that be, to have Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise dressed as TJ Hooker, with Locklear next to him.
Janeway races back from the future, where the Borg came from. Along with Janeway is the defiant, commanded by Picard and Dr. Crusher. This could provide good romance between two very sexy actors. I have had the hots for Dr. Crusher for years.
The excitement would not come from the Borg attack, but watching the crews work together to form a defense.
And I would not mind seeing a couple of birds of prey get in the storyline.
Or, I GOT IT!!! What was the species in A Year of Hell that destroyed the voyager? Maybe they find their way to earth??
The possibilities are endless, but Kirk must be involved. Kirk IS Star Trek. Nobody can take his place.
the mod must have no education and little life experience. i guess that qualifies him to mod based on opinion, because there is nothing else left.