Well said!

Dan Brown is so bad that you could put fucking Jar-Jar in there and it would probably be an improvement. Really.

Bucky, don't know if this violates some sort of Interwebby code, but hit me with an email at billyverona@hotmail.com.

@ respected ancestor …. I always try not to think about transporters too much. I mean if you ahve one, you don't need a doctor. You put them in the trnsporter and recopy them whole. You don't need dilithium crystals; you put some sand in the transporter (or the food replicators ) and bam. If you can convert energy to…

@alum …. well said. The movie did have it's heart in the right place and that is why I like it in spite of the half-assed script. I will jsut try not to think about and hope for better next time.

That's why it is such lazy screenwriting. They could have easily inserted a line about Spock knowing Kirk was there and looking for him. You could have Spcok come out of the snow waving his damn hood around like Obi-wan and save Kirk - neat little tribute. It was just ridiculous.

Agreed with that! There is a four album bootleg called "Tales from Moondawg's Tavern" that is nothing but stage banter and it is great. A legit version would be fantastic.

Kikckass show. He toured right after that (about four years ago) with Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt in the same format. Killer!

I love me some Steve Earle. Listened to him every since Guitar Town (purchased the same day as Storms of Life and Guitars and Cadillacs in a oment of rediscovering country) but the man flat out cannot act. He fit the part because he was playing himself, but it was fairly disposable.

Even if it is the right planet, how is he int he right place? Imagine that, on the entire fucking Earth, you land 1 mile from the person the plot needs you to find? hell, even if you landed one-mile away, the odds of finding someone in that landscape are tremendous. I was lost in something like that once; I couldn't…

That should have been bridge officer, but fridge officer probably works also.

Thank you Nexus! FINALLY! I think Chekov had some things to do, with being the math genius and all, and I think Scotty was great and so was McCoy. Sulu didn't have much to do and, although it was a nice in-joke, the fencing was silly.

I know I'm late on this but it reminds me of something I jsut read. In one Gldawell's books (Tipping Point, I think, but might be Blink) he talks about how kids learn and uses Sesame Street and Blue's Clues as examples. Sesame St is a much more commercially suscessfully product, because it aims at adults and kids and…

I would imagine that Scrubs is realistic in its social interaction but not at all in the casework simply because realistic makes boring TV.

I see your point, Lex-d and I think it's valid, but how many people have to recognize it as a stereotype for us to be concerned. I mean, if this is a big thing in the Jewish community and every Jew looks at Ferengi and sees it, then, it's quite possible that I jsut missed it. On the other hand, if only one or two…

@martian judge …. the reason Dan Brown gets so much hate is because he kind of fell into a perfect storm. Other light summer reads are badly written, but not THAT Badly written. God, it's just beyond belief what a terrible, terrible writer the man is. Other books are controversial, but they didn't just swipe the ideas…

@ tom waits …. well said, sir! Well said indeed.

Since I spend upwards of 100 hours a month flying and have absolutely no willpower, I will see all of them eventually.

Really. I cannot think of a worse popular writer ever. Stephen King may be repeating himself a bit, but the man can write. Grisham last book was terrible but it was light years ahead of Brown.

Dan Brown took a bunch of notes other people's ideas, hacked up a "story" framework around his notes and sold a bazillion copies.