Tokyo’s storm water drainage system is insane, and handles typhoons without any trouble. I’m not sure if it would handle a tsunami or not, but I’m betting they designed it with those in mind as well. Obviously won’t help with earthquakes, but at least flooding is less likely.

There’s been an update since, it notes:

300 foot slide, plenty of time to be banged against rocks on the way down. She could have been knocked unconcious, then buried under a foot or two of snow. Quite possible that she never regained consciousness before she died from lack of oxygen. She could have been in a situation where she could have gotten free if…

Pretty much can’t be the mirror universe, as Enterprise had a two-parter set there where it established the mirror universe was already run in the same fashion as it was in TOS. The Terran Empire already existed.

Actually, we already have lost things. Just one minor example: Back in college I used to play a MUD a lot. Eventually I got tired of it, but would check back in occasionally. The MUD was moved to new servers a few times, ending up in an entirely different country even. But eventually it vanished. Not only the server,…

I think the portal you’re thinking of was the Guardian of Forever. That’s entirely different from the Iconian gateways, as it could move you through time and space. It was also designed differently. (The Iconian portals we saw were rectangular, the Guardian was mostly circular.)

What is maddening is that CBS has insisted, repeatedly, that Discovery is set in the prime timeline. It looks like the Kelvin timeline, it even sounds like the Kelvin timeline (there’s musical cues similar to the movies) but by god CBS insists it’s not actually a Kelvin timeline duck.

I don’t think the Iconians were mentioned at all in TOS (I watched all of it earlier this year), but they did show up in DS9, or rather one of their portals did. The Dominion asked Sisko for help in destroying it because a group of Jem Hadar had gone rogue and taken control of the Iconian portal. They were a threat to…

Now I’m kind of wanting to see a coffee maker gain sentience and try to take over the ship...

Actually it predates the Federation, as they showed up in Enterprise too. I think there was something in Starfleet’s charter that started them, then they moved on to be a secret part of the Federation once it formed.

If I’m remembering correctly, most people who bought a General Products hull painted most of it, so they’ll probably be okay on those. The CGI for the Puppeteers, and Kzinti, not to mention the dozen or so different species they ran into on the Ringworld itself are definitely going to cost a fortune.

Sounds like a game that’d be vastly improved playing in an emulator, just for the ability to use save states anytime you wanted.

Probably just do they best they can. Even the books stress how the Ringworld is so freaking large that it’s incomprehensible to most species’ minds. They just can’t grasp the size. I can see them doing shots from space that don’t do it justice (because it’s outright impossible to do it justice, even seeing a real one…

Shouldn’t that be KHAANAAAN!?

At least she sounded like she spoke English normally, unlike all the Klingons who sounded like they’d never spoken Klingon before that day.

I don’t think they intentionally set out to make a bad show, but they sure did jump at the chance to have Netflix pay to jump-start their personal streaming service. I suspect Netflix believes the effort will fail and Discovery will end up with Netflix streaming it in the US (and likely Canada) too.

I think it’s because you seem to be woefully uninformed and/or are deliberately avoiding mentioning information that makes CBS look bad. For example, you spent most of your comments insisting CBS paid for Discovery entirely on their own, and this justified putting it behind a paywall. The one time you actually…

What? Canada has it even worse, as it’s on the premium Space Channel. I’ve seen people reporting it would cost them $100 a month to add the channel. (I’m not sure if that’s to add only it, or if they have to get a bundle of premium channels to obtain it.) In any case, everything I’ve seen Canadians say is that it will…

Your final sentence is kind of ironic, because to paraphrase: “If you like it, it’s cool, but don’t think the rest of us share your opinion” is equally valid. I get that a lot of critics liked it, and a lot of fans did, but not all do. I have serious problems with it (the most serious of which are not based on what is…

I agree with you, but wanted to point out that CBS did make a deal with Netflix for distribution. In fact Netflix paid for the entire cost of producing Discovery in exchange for streaming rights everywhere but the US and Canada.