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These are hilarious. A lot of them are just slightly more absurd variations on actual Trek stories but there are quite a few gems in there, as well. And I love how all the Geordie and Data B-stories sound like Punky Brewster episodes.

One of the most astonishing things I've learned as a side effect of the Colbert phenomenon is that there really are people who are completely incapable of recognizing verbal irony, even when there's loads of context to tip them off. I know people who think that Stephen Colbert is an extreme right wing comedian who's…

For the record, I divided the above post into nice, neat little paragraphs and it only turned into that massive, unreadable blob of text after I clicked submit. This never used to happen and I don't know what has changed. If someone can enlighten me, I'd appreciate it.

Star Wars and, to a slightly lesser extent, Star Trek are fantasy, through and through. Star Wars in particular is not actually science fiction at all. It's sword and sorcery dressed up in sci fi clothes. Star Trek gets credit for paying obeisance to science and technology but most of the science and technology in the…

Those are some fine specimens. The ones that aren't made of plastic, that is.

Speaking as both a proghead and science fiction nerd, all I can say is SQUEEEEEE!!

I interpreted it more as anti-corporate colonialism than anti-technology. I don't recall that the Na'vi didn't want the humans there at all. They just didn't want them to shoot their children, raze their sacred places and blow up their giant tree houses. There is some key exposition scenes that didn't make the…

One of the common criticisms of Avatar was that it carried an anti-science message and yet it is one of the relatively few movies where all of the scientist characters depicted are good guys and the science that they do is the source of something good instead of something evil.

The only thing Skyline 2 would be a threat to is the careers of every single human being involved in its creation.

How? Why, with a little help from Megajesus, of course.

I'm no expert but I think Oogeena up there might need some prune juice and a bran muffin.

The term wild refers to the fact that these animals are not domesticated or semi-domesticated. Regardless of whether they were born in captivity or how tame they are, they are wild animals. Domestication is a process that takes many generations of careful selective breeding and many species, perhaps most species are…

Fair enough. A larger tank for them to live in while they're not performing wouldn't hurt anything. Except their profits, that is.

Are their living quarters big enough for an animal of its size?

I think my response to the response to this is best summed up by the lyrics to a song by a little band called Tool:

We're more likely to get Newt Gingrich's moon base than to see the legalization or decriminalization of all illegal drugs like Ron Paul is advocating. People who oppose cannabis prohibition (like myself) aren't doing themselves any favors by supporting Ron Paul. Too much progress has been made (some polls show support…

The flying saucer version of Truck Nutz is my guess. Which I guess means we're being visited by aliens from the extraterrestrial equivalent of Alabama.

And mine gives me directions to walk from Chicago to Seattle, but it still says, "Use caution – One does not simply walk into Mordor."

For those who can't get it to work: make sure you search for WALKING directions.