"ARE WE ON VOX!?"

I don't think so. the action/reaction forces of the expelled gasses would be contained within the space suit and therefore cancel each other out. The gasses would have to be expelled through some kind of exterior nozzle or opening to actually propel you through space. If I were you, I wouldn't try "direct venting"…

My comment is kind of inspired from one of Bill Cosby's old 60's standup shows: when I travel I wind up with handfuls of little brown coins. When it comes time to pay up, I just hand them over and say "please don't hurt me!"

Young man, you haven't lived until you've sipped your own piss from a catchpocket!

Seems one dynasty was overlooked

When working as a cashier, I was always asked the question, "why do we even still use pennies, nickels, dimes, etc"? I always gave them the same answer, "they're there to calculate sales tax."

This whole revising the villains from the old timeline bothers me. "Old" Spock knows of all the impending threats to earth and the Federation for the next 100 years and could simply debrief them on how to deal with them preemptively. And before you say Spock would't divulge any future events out of concern it would…

The baby-killing scenes were certainly disturbing, but not without precedence. One only has to go back to Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 "The Ten Commandments" to find an equally disturbing scene nearly as graphically portrayed (or implied anyways) on film. True, I'm comparing a historical/biblically based film on one…

Theon groping his unbeknownst sister on horseback was in the book too. However gross or cool it was to the viewer, it was actually an important part of moving forward Theon's character from the spoiled, entitled, ward-brat he was to the (spoilers) person he becomes. That reveal was the first of several blows to his…

Now THAT'S a threat! See the difference? ;)

Point. I kinda figured someone would bring it up that the Joffrey/whores scene was a substitute for Sansa's public humiliation scene in the book. What bothered me (and I should have made that my first point) is the amount of screen time these scenes are taking-up. The episodes are just too short to waste 5-10…

My issue with the sex scenes in the show are not so much that there are sex scenes (there's plenty in the books already that move the story along), but there are several added that are NOT in the books (like Joffrey's little S&M crossbow party) that seem to be added just for eye candy and "'cause we're HBO and we can…

Nova?

I thought so too. It was in fact one of the more unpleasant parts of SoS to even read, but it was necessary to establish Joffrey's character as a total prick. I can see now it was a re-direct of that scene from the book and it did have the same effect on me. Joffrey IS a prick.

Heloooo, remember me? I eat planets and traumatized starfleet commodores. Bring it on, Botany Bay!

I'm not going to let this list go into history without mentioning Barry Gray, the composer of some awesome pre Star Wars British sci-fi gems as "Space: 1999", "UFO" and what may be his best effort: "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" (1969). Just advance the trackbar to the 5:26 mark of this soundtrack and see if…

I could have sworn I've read this book review before somewhere, but can't remember where—or this is the weirdest case of deja-vu I've ever had? As for me, I quit the series after "Victory of Eagles" as I just couldn't swallow the ramifications of Laurence's so-called "treason" going forward in the storyline anymore. …

I wonder if it has something to do with the three horse deaths on HBO's "Luck" that they decided to limit the number of horses on this show. While they used plenty in the first season, now hardly any in the second season, even though there are plenty of scenes of battle and mounted travel in SofS. Sure those…

Point. Although the novels are written third-person, it's the limited type where the reader only knows as much as the characters do—or think they do.

I'm just wondering how the concept of a year consisting of a fixed number of days-per-year came into use on such a world where the length of seasons are so inconsistent? The very concept of a year as the fulfillment of a pattern of recognizable seasons arose with the development of the organized agrarian society. …