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For me it was when Tom Baker regenerated into that skinny kid in the ice cream suit.

How would consumers react to a nuclear detonation that was a more friendly colour. Perhaps we should conduct focus groups ... gather them around to observe the event at close hand and then give us a questionnaire to express their feelings vis-a-vis nuclear fission versus nuclear fusion and their preferences re:

Personally, I believe the main reason humanity will survive a mass extinction event is that unlike the prior extinction-proof species (turtles, alligators, sharks, cockroaches, ants and other similar critters) we are an extinction event ourselves.

Almost none of those examples (with the exception of Private Little War) violate the Prime Directive, in that all of the cultures involved were sufficiently advanced to have space travel, nuclear capability, and (in all but Patterns of Force) were already abundantly aware of the Federation's existence.
The Prime

I vote World War Z. Incredibly obscure geekitude on a subject (Zombie) that has and is getting all the media exposure it can stand.

Gosh, I bet my fictional character can beat up your fictional character.

That has got to be a fetus of 6-8 months gestation, and not a child of 6-8 years, because human?

Your point?

Hey, That Guy!

Good review.

The fact that you can take a tiny wafer of plastic from your pocket and ask it a question about anything and then get a coherent and sometimes correct response from the air is "magic," Esther. Most people have not the slightest conception of how it happens, they simply accept that it does what it does when they

I love the first few breaths of a new atmosphere. The rusty old hulk my folks run is practically falling apart (even the crane arm's stainless is marked with streaks of oxidation), but it still gets us from one dock to the next. I hope we clear enough on this cargo to get me a new shipsuit, cause this one is about

Um, the Olmecs came first. The Maya developed Olmec-esque architecture and statuary. That is how it works.

So ...

Why is that steamer on toothpicks?

Good list:

The Adventure Begins.

"I seriously heard "Thus Spake Zarathustra" in my head when I read that summary."

Or should that be "a display of prominent bosoms"?

A Fleet of Whale Sharks.