Yeah, but do those really count? If I knew I could and would reset everything to normal with no harm done in a short time, I might be willing to kill people temporarily in pursuit of a goal. It’s literally harmless, because you can and will make sure it never happened.

The crime and tragedy in murder is that it’s…

The problem is they’re trying to make Star Trek something it’s not and was never meant to be. It’s far nerdier than Star Wars or other mainstream sci-fantasy stuff and never appealed to a large mainstream audience. They have it stuck in their heads that since everyone knows Star Trek, it should be a huge blockbuster…

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye hasn’t been canon since the final draft of the script for Empire Strikes Back. It was written as a low-budget sequel concept long before the original film became a hit, and once it became a phenomenon it was put aside to be overwritten by a much more ambitious sequel. At that time, Kenobi’s…

That story was already told, and it happened far longer in the past than 10 years before TOS. You see, in the 1990s the Eugenics Wars happened, which bled into WWIII and a nuclear exchange. The planet then was split between fueding warlords for at least half the 21rst century, and through it all the majority of the…

“Jim’s five year mission to bang everything in the galaxy” is a myth, full stop. It’s a pop-culture mass misremembering based more on parodic inflation than anything that actually happened in the series.

It should probably go without saying, but those graphics are in no way possible on early 1980s hardware. Not even close.

The closest thing was a laserdisc game in 1983 called Star Rider, which used pre-rendered graphics crunched on a supercomputer and recorded on laserdisc to be played back as the background. No…

I’ve long known about the early Tempest build, and I think Polybius was nothing more than a limited field playtest. The vertigo it induced in some players plus seeing unknown men collecting data from the machines (which had to be done in person back then, there was no networking) and conducting interviews sparked the…

I think it would be interesting if the MLF were to go beyond the US, go worldwide. A Mutant INTERNATIONAL Liberation Front, if you will.

Voq’s words to T’Kuvma:

Alien isn’t even his. That story was created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shussett, and the Alien itself was designed by HR Giger. Scott did a masterful directing job, yes, and the film is stunning. But it’s not his story. It never was.

He didn’t write Blade Runner either, nor did he do the visual design work —that was…

Because they’re older by far than humans. By the time a species has had easy travel for many centuries, they will probably have interbred beyond any regional distinctions.

Or how about the fact that the bloody thing made the building of the big bad ship entirely unnecessary? And made the Klingon threat completely toothless?

Because think about it for thirty seconds, which is clearly longer than the writers did, and you realize if you can beam things across interstellar distances straight…

I’m reminded of the Supreme Court’s wise words that “seperate but equal is not equal”. Shouldn’t these characters have a real shot to make a mark in the main DCU? Don’t they deserve a shot at membership in the Justice League and Titans and to be given an A-list push? For that matter, why hasn’t that happened already?…

That’s not female Cap, that’s Steven Tyler of Aerosmith as Cap. The hair and the lips give it away.

This isn’t about Colin Kaepernick either. And it certainly isn’t why he doesn’t have a starting quarterback position. His numbers and lack of ability to adapt to playing a regular pocket passing style without the read-option to rely on is why he’s not starting anywhere. Let’s not get it twisted.

Today, the entire…

Bullshit. There are reasons for costuming as evil characters that have nothing to do with support of actual evil groups or philosophies. Hell, you could do it as a statement AGAINST the real evil, as most villainous characters are intended to be. Do you think Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Red Skull to promote…

I wish this context had been included in the article, it makes far more sense given those facts.

Comparatively that is true. You think that was the first genocide, or the worst, or even the last? Sorry, no. The largest known was the systematic depopulation of the Americas.

Maybe MMO games aren’t for you, then, because STO is very light on the grind by the standards of the genre.

AOE attacks are also effective against Romulans, even when you’re fighting them one at a time. Make sure you have some beams with Fire at Will and possibly a torpedo spread, maybe even a mine launcher rear. The Rommies like to use tractor beam mines and heavy plasma torpedoes, which are targetable and able to be…