As another Asian person in America, I personally find it odd that you think you have clout to say that a Japanese production is racist against the Japanese. As you said, you *don't* understand how this video is seen by your average Japanese person, and as I'm sure you know things like tastes, aesthetics, cultural…

. . . I actually kinda liked Freebird being played in the cantina . . .

Speaking of faux steampunk, I was presenting at a conference earlier this year and saw that one of the panels would be on steampunk works in pop culture. I've been in the subculture for about a decade now and seeing it finally bleed over into academia was an exciting thought, so I went to check it out.

Unfortunately,…

It's cultural. My dad still calls *his* father sir, as it happens.

What about the Dynarri? First contact leads the the enslavement of an entire galactic community, eradication of almost all sentient life, and severe genetic manipulation of their favorite slave race. Heck, even their defeat was terrible and resulted in a millennia-long cycle of genocide and slavery by their former…

I think the last two comments hit the nail on the head. Trek, in all of its iterations, had incredibly intelligent and interesting stories and occasionally arcs. However, the quality of the shows from episode to episode varied so much that we got the likes of Code of Honor or Threshold, more often than I would have…

Oh this one makes me sad. Like you said, it could have been very good.

Interestingly, since it was produced at more or less the same time as the TNG finale, they had to choose which of the two would receive more money and effort. They decided to focus on All Good Things (and did a bang-up job), which might help explain…

I rewatched part of RoTK last year, and I was surprised by how much of it started to bug me. Granted, some scenes bothered me even the first time I watched it in the theater, and it is my least favorite of the three, but the first few times through they were bearable.

Now though, it's difficult to get through the…

Armed revolutions aren't good, except when they are. We can point to a plethora of examples in history where a revolution resulted in a better system.

Fair point, though I'd posit that you can have a gendered character arc without him or her ever interacting with a character of the opposite sex, just as you can have ungednered character arc when he or she does interact.

To me the bigger point was that only a few characters in LoTR were defined by their gender, even…

Beat me to it. Only a few of Tolkien's characters have any gendered story arcs or interactions at all.

Like you said, Japanese media was only allowed in the country two decades ago, and cultural shifts toward acceptance can be slow. I mean, there was a bit of a lag here in the Western world between banning slavery and equal rights for blacks.

Is there any other meaning of the word, apart from the Latin denotation?

Though that story was a bit more silly, since nova is a word in Spanish as well.

Shouldn't this one be obvious? Last I checked, the sun and moon were a lot smaller than that from our perspective here on Earth.

Is it just me, or does this look a LOT like an anime? I mean, magic girl + hot alien + impossible vistas + space dragons + mecha suits . . .

I chuckled at that as well.

I think you picking the word "inspire" here is very apt. Having an understanding of a topic and being inspired by a topic are very different things. I'm often inspired by books or programs on cutting-edge astrophysics, even though my actual knowledge in the field doesn't go much beyond the few classes I took as an…

I'm hoping this technology becomes economic within my lifetime. If I had the choice to NOT pass on my hereditary disorders, but still have my (mostly) own children, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.

May I suggest: