It’s their plane. They’re allowed to kick anyone off a flight for whatever reason. Yes, they have to refund you, yes it is a shitty thing to do but that is how business works.

You’re kidding right? So if they just decided you had to give up the seat that you paid for, planned your day/week/vacation/major life event around, showed up to the fucking airport and deal with security and lines, after all that, and they arbitrarily decide you’re the unlucky one who has to give up whatever their…

Right? It was completely unavoidable that this man would have to give up his seat because United intentionally oversold a flight and then chose to kick him off to avoid having their employee make alternate arrangements.

The Chicago PD said they did not have any officers involved in this, so whose police were they?

Pretty sure that they can’t decide not to serve you at 30,000 feet. At some point you are a passenger on their plane and they can’t kick you off.

Now finally, something does not seem right with this man because repeating “just kill me” over and over again is not typically something a right minded individual would do. Which would also go towards explaining why he refused to leave in the first place.

You’re actually defending this? And here I was being naive and thinking we were all in agreement that United was shitty here.

I get that a business can refuse to serve anyone at anytime for any reason, but my issue is that they ruined his chances of getting home. If they alerted him at booking, or even the day before the flight, he could have found another airline willing to take him home. Getting back to your family and job on time is worth…

They are airport police, part of the Chicago Department of Aviation.

Now finally, something does not seem right with this man because repeating “just kill me” over and over again is not typically something a right minded individual would do. Which would also go towards explaining why he refused to leave in the first place.

I think the problem is that as part of human nautre, no one ever sees themselves as the bad guy. Not the pilots or the crew or security or the police. Certainly not TSA .. Not even the people who let the bleeding and confused man back on the plane after the beating. Not United management or the PR department.

No, it doesn’t happen. They should not have the right to randomly select someone to get off the plane (or re-assign them) so they can board United employees on the stand-by list. That’s not how it should work.

You would have thought people at Paramount/CBS would realise the best way to treat star Trek would be to join it all back up, create a single company that is 50% owned by each company.

How come we don’t see Star Trek on TV anymore? BBC America shows The Next Generation. One of the cable channels shows one episode of The Original Series on Saturday night. NOBODY shows Deep Space Nine or Voyager or Enterprise. What the fuck?

This has been something that has concerned me too, apparently you have to make a billion dollars for hollywood to look at you now.

I’m in need of a good Star Trek show too, we won’t get one, but I want it.

While the timing is unfortunate, I don’t see how Nimoy’s passing us a factor for Paramount’s lack of giving a sh**

At the time, I was working as an “Official STAR TREK Consultant” for Viacom. I wrote an impassioned, 20 page memo basically BEGGING them not to pull the DC license. I cited numerous examples of how DC stood as a shining example of how to beautifully handle a beloved franchise in comic book form.

Especially after the year-long orgy of Star Wars over that we just came off of. Apparently no one at Paramount likes Star Trek and is willing to fight for it.

that is the challenge for CBS ... they’re following an HBO model, hoping to build a subscriber base with Star Trek as their anchor show (Larry Sanders Show, Sex and the City, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire built the base for HBO)

TOS? I was on TOS for about 15 issues, til the end. I think Gordon was on TNG at the end. Thank you for your support and kind words :) But lots of people bought every issue; the sales figures were VERY decent, well above lots of Marvel AND DC B-list superhero books (although too low by the time I got on board to hit…