It has been a while since I read the Stitch in Time, I remember I didn't like it. It was a must read for me, but frankly it ruined the character in some ways. The problem is that it portrays Garak as basically a flunky, with barely any spycraft under his belt. It's not a swashbuckling adventure where Garak is a…

For example, on what basis do you conclude that the set of the knowable is finite, and therefore the unknowable is constantly shrinking?

I quite disagree that "the field of ignorance" is "constantly shrinking." The more we know, the more we realize we don't know.

Absolutely, I agree. I nearly applauded when Olivia said that the invaders are better at math. Exactly! And then the episode had to throw all of that away, and do a completely cliche care bear ending. The power of love saved Peter! Hallelujah! :-(

Indeed, Olivia's materialistic statement was then contradicted in the end when "love" fucked up Peter's plans you... ya know... win!

Exactly. Because if you do it right, there will be lots of pieces, and you may need multiple holes to bury them in.

I agree - the whole explanation of emotionless stuff was rather cliche and boring. I am rather annoyed that we lost so much potential when Peter lost his powers. I was quite disappointed in he ending since the entire ending was really obvious. I wished that they broke the mold set by all the other shows (woman…

Further, no system of science can explain anything. See Heisenberg.

The Goddamn Batman, of course.

No, he is Spiderman. Spiderman gets beat up about as much as Batman, but regenerates somehow. Or wears a lot of makeup around his aunt.

This is explained by "holistic" means. Batman has trained with various eastern mystics. He knows how to push his body's healing abilities to the maximum. Therefore he has advanced healing abilities far beyond those of average humans. He also has access to various alien technology and supernatural methods of…

This episode was incredibly terrible. And not for the reason mentioned above. For all the other soapy soapy reasons. It seems to be the same idea as the horrific SyFy movies - I have better stuff to do than to watch them be this awful, murder the characters, and commit various on-screen crimes. If I was that…

Go to the iTunes page for this movie. Select the View Trailers dropdown on the left - the download option will in the blue dropdowns that say Watch Now under each version of the trailer.

Or D - he is one of the bad things that the Federation did. I hope we get a reference to Section 31.

Looks pretty awesome. Whoever Cumberbach is portraying, he is wearing a black Starfleet shirt (with the starburst symbol on the chest). And appears to be sitting in a command chair. There is also an image of a Starfleet ship (with "NCC" visible on the nacelle) rising from the water. I don't think it's the…

Just download the .mov file and use that. It's an option on the iTunes page. That's what I did.

Basically a friend of Kirk that was on the Enterprise in one of the first episodes from the original series. Enterprise went through the "galactic barrier" and Mitchell got superpowers because of that strange energy field. Telepathy, telekinesis, all the usual staples. Started going nuts. Kirk killed him.

Yup, same here. But I have the QT Windows filters installed. I just chose the download option, downloaded the video and watched it in a media player.

:-( I didn't read FFF, but loved the idea of it. This makes me want Rob back on Topless Robot even more. This place is way too stuffy. Which is why I loved TR, and still have it on my bookmark bar, in hopes that they will find another awesome writer.

Heh. Blast from the past. I've read many of these books when I was young in Russia (a few decades ago). They were quite fun, although I suspect that I would not like them today. Part of the problem was a severely anemic library system where it was very difficult to find anything. You couldn't order books from…