The Spock/Uhura thing is _another_ example of this. Nero appearing and then being gone for the entirety of Spock’s childhood doing God knows what.. It makes no sense that this should result in Spock embracing his human side romantically. They fucked up by wanting continuity and also a reboot- It would have been far…

That would be hilarious.

It’s not so much of an alternate universe that the original universe characters end up in the same jobs on the same ship, but one of them is born gay instead of straight. The only way this makes any kind of sense is if in Trek, people choose orientations (politically unsound viewpoint for the writers!) or that Sulu…

They aren’t restarting the series in general- If they were, they would not have done the going back in time resetting everything angle. It would have been much better if they HAD simply “rebooted” the universe, but they are implying some consistency between old and new, trying to have it both ways.

In the Prime universe Sulu mentions he has a daughter and a family (Star Trek 6 I think). However he doesn’t mention the gender of the spouse AFAICR so it could still be consistent...

Makeup and excellent lighting.

Agreed, however there is a difference between an accident and an intentionally inflicted injury.

It’s probable that she wasn’t actually injured to a great degree. Minor head cuts look horrible and bleed a ton. I’m sure if it was more than this, the amount sought in the lawsuit would also be much greater.

This write-up is probably overstating the injury. Head injuries bleed a lot and look horrible even for minor cuts. This is worded to make you think that the TSA slammed her face into the floor, when she probably just bumped it.

Couple things about this:

Originally this started as my objection to her being labelled a mediocre student.

Ok, I appreciate that you think it’s horrible, but you haven’t backed it up, so I guess we will just have to leave it there.

How about: “I believe affirmative action is wrong but I don’t have the money or the desire to sue, but this guy shows up and offers to pay and I’m happy to attach my name to it.”

For one of many possibilities: There may not be a legal framework to sue on the other holistic considerations.

Has she? Where?

No, I think your original interpretation was correct; at least, that’s how I read it. Pre-rescale total scores were 900, post-rescale total scores were 1000. “For example, verbal and math scores of 500 received before 1995 correspond to scores of 580 and 520, respectively, on the 1995 scale.”

In your view should the 10% auto-admission policy include a race-based adjustment? (which I haven’t looked up myself but will stipulate for the purposes of this convo).

Someone decided that 10% was the magic number. How was it arrived at? I don’t know, but depending on the answer it may have been “subjective” or “arbitrary”, but I don’t see a meaningful distinction as it relates to the discussion overall.

Well, it’s not what I think, because I’ve never heard a university say that, but that is how a lot of commenters are apparently viewing it.

So I guess it depends on specifically when you took the test.