The point they’re trying to make is that the effect of CotEoF would have been so great that the character we knew and loved, Captain Kirk, would have been totally destroyed.

Ozymandias was absolutely not the hero of Watchmen. He got away with it for a little while and that’s all.

We need an entire new tense in the English language just to make good time travel movies.

Possibly because failing to comply with FOIA is deeply illegal, even more suspicious, and could get the cops in even more trouble.

Maybe they're fans, but they're not _real_ fans.

Bob's plenty real. He's a possessing spirit — the personification of the evil that men do. There's no contradiction between the movie and the show.

But where did they get the logs???

I only need to know how this affects Ambush Bug.

My mother was an army nurse in the Vietnam era. In order to help train the nurses to treat gunshot wounds, soldiers would go out every day and shoot some goats. Then the nurses would stitch them up and let them go.

The Shining literally has a second plot built out of the apparent plot holes in the first plot. Hint: Danny never goes in Room 237.

I tried to do something similar a while ago and found that nostalgia for the CYOA books is confined to a very narrow bandwidth of people, all about the same age and general demographics. It was extremely appealing to them, but confusing and meaningless to just about everybody else.

It is so strange that things like this happen for real a thousand times a day, but it makes the news when it's fake. I've noticed this odd tendency several times, like the trans waiter who claimed to have gotten a nasty note from a customer.

Why is it that the real crimes go unreported and the fake crimes rise to the…

It's absolutely true, and you can actually see him lampshade this in the second book. But what was barely plausible then is just nonsense now. It's like the scene in Up where he drops the GPS out the window. Barely works today, but in ten years my daughter will just want to know why he doesn't use the GPS in his…

Maybe they know what lampshading is. Good luck.

Great. So let me know how you're gonna lampshade this one, because I'm super curious.

This is hard science fiction. There was actually a tremendous amount of research and calculation that went into them.

The stories can no longer function as hard science fiction, and caps lock won't change that. If you can come up with a scientifically satisfying reason why they can't just send a camera, let me know. …

Speaking as a true fan of these books, I'm not finding this workaround satisfying. At all.

They didn't get relics on the vast majority of the trips. Believe me, much was made of the fact that they were going out there and dying for nothing.

Nope, they could send multiple ships to the same destination quite reliably, if they knew what the destination was.

It has changed, because if you read Beyond the Blue Event Horizon you can see in black and white that Pohl underestimated by several significant digits the storage capacity of modern computers. He obviously did not believe that cameras could store meaningful amounts of information or that they could broadcast it…

No, the whole point is that the ships went and came back, and the prospectors had to try to stay alive. They did not get to make "decisions" when they got there in the vast majority of the cases, and that includes the missions that the main character took — the three missions of his that I can recall right now had…