I thought the cavalry coming just in the nick of time was a bit over-the-top. For my money, Hardhome was a better battle, especially the way it ended with the dead rising.

Why do we need this?? We already have the best prequel TV series we’re ever gonna get.

Is it a theory? I thought the finale presented it as being the case for the whole thing.

Star Trek, like your cats, is just something you must hold, cherish, and love unconditionally.

That picture is probably of a spayed lady cat who doesn’t have to go through barbed penis sex anymore.

Without question. When I was reading Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I not only kept laughing out loud, but I drove my lunch table companions at Bell Labs to distraction raving about it. So much so that at least three of them also read it. Then we all started talking about it. Heck, we still talk about it.

Pretty much all decisions made in this.

You should be the most pro-vaccination of all of us. Your child relies on herd immunity to keep him safe from illnesses, and that herd immunity is eroding. He is exactly why it's important for everyone without a valid medical reason to vaccinate, and exactly who this ridiculous anti-vaxxer movement is endangering.

A lot of people here don't seem to understand just how feared autism and other disabilities and mental illnesses are. Maybe not by everyone, but by a lot of people. Disability forces people to confront their own mortality, and accommodation requires people to learn to be more inclusive. Far too many people would…

I feel like a lot of the rhetoric around defending vaccines has come dangerously close to saying "vaccines aren't bad, because they don't cause this terrible affliction," or something to that effect — whereas in fact, we can defend vaccines and de-stigmatize autism at the same time.

okay :)

What offends me is the anti-vax people are apparently saying they would rather their children be dead than get autism. That's a very hateful message.

As a former lover of the show, I find myself deeply ambivalent about this.

Haha, leave it to trekkies to totally miss the point of the article and go right into bashing Voyager. Don't worry Kath, I smiled ear to ear when reading it, and can relate to being brought into the fandom through something that's widely vilified - Wesley Crusher. Terrible character, but as a young kid, seeing a…