I am going to disagree with you on that. The defense council was carefully pointing out all the ways in which the Federation are falling short of their ideals. And teasing out the asylum defense without the prosecution seeing it coming and taking some sort of steps to short circuit it. The Vulcan admiral seems like…

At one time I might have accepted your arguments about foil. First arm straight got the attack. That was a long time ago. Now it is all completely crazy bullshit. And sabre was always the sport of crazy thuggish cheaters. Epee is the only way to go. Simple and clean. Although I am with you on the diacritics.

Oh best show has to be Mitchell. MITCHELL! "I usually take my Scotch with a Ding-Dong in it."

That's exactly what I hoped it was going to be.

I agree on the Captain America bit. I thought that it deserved to be on this list over some of the other choices. I think that it captured the essence of Cap pretty much perfectly.

I rode something very much like this in Austria in about 1990. It was going a bit faster than this one seemed to, but it was the most insane ride that I had ever been on. I thought it was going to break at pretty much any time. I didn't vomit, but it has remained in my mind ever since.

If you are in Texas you might stop by Cross Plains for Robert E. Howard Days celebrating the life of the creator of Conan.

York Cathedral in England has carvings of a Ferengi, a Klingon and Neil Armstrong. Can't find a good picture of it. I think because they are the size of a thumbnail.

I think that The River is going to fall into the same category as The Cape. Really flawed sf/fantasy show that was watchable. That being said, I would really prefer to have a few more cheese episodes of The Cape, to my shame.

That pretty much sums it up. I really enjoy reading pulps from the 30s: Robert E. Howard, HPL, The Shadow, The Spider, Etc. Lots of weird racism in those, but in terms of the period understandable. I think that you can read it and understand what it is AND what it was. SF and fantasy has changed a lot in the past…

I met him once, many years ago when he gave a talk to the artists at LucasArts. Extremely humble and gracious. He casually pulled out the original artwork of the Israelites with the Ark of Covenant from Raiders. I almost passed out.

This story makes me so happy. That such an awesome show could come out of almost nothing is great. It makes me think that they could do a story about how the show got off the ground with the support of a mysterious stranger who seemed to come out of nowhere with story ideas and technical support.

What about Dust from Babylon 5? It gives users psychic abilities. G'Kar uses it to steal vital information from the mind of Garibaldi. It even worked on Narn, despite the fact that all Narn telepaths had been exterminated thousands of years ago.

I am so glad that Munden's made the list. I would like to add the Last Shot, from the pages of Wildstorm comics.

This actually has a SF/Fantasy connection. It was referenced and provided inspiration for an H.P. Lovecraft collaboration with Adolphe de Castro. It was a fairly-forgettable story called "The Last Test." [www.hplovecraft.com]

That hits it just about perfectly. G'kar changed so much from the first episode (where he came off as kind of a thug) to the end, where he was a great and tragic figure.

Boy was that a mistake on your part, or rather our parts as I watched it too. I watched it from sort of an archaeological masochist view. And I was well rewarded with pain.

You would watch the SyFy movie? You mean like Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon?

A really obscure one that is not that old. In the past year or so there was a Dr. Fate mini-series written by comics Mad Genius Steve Gerber. Unfortunately before it was finished Steve died and someone else had to complete it. Well, in the last issue there was a cameo by one of Steve's most amazing creations from…

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