This, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you raise a generation to believe that there are no bad ideas and that everyone’s opinion should be considered.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you raise a generation to believe that there are no bad ideas and that everyone’s opinion should be considered.
Wasn't that the one written by Harlan Ellison? "I Have No Coffee, and I Must Scream!"
Man, that was my favorite episode of Voyager!
When you come right down to it, all Federation tech seems to be needlessly complicated with weird design flaws. I don't think Federation engineers could design a cupholder without it gaining sentience, and trying to take over the ship.
Well, considering that nobody gets splattered into the aft bulkhead once the ship gets up to an appreciable percentage of the speed of light (and then some once Warp Speed kicks in), there's clearly some sort of inertial dampening. It just clearly doesn't work all that well once combat maneuvers kick in, which does…
I just came here to post this:
"Although a commonplace training film, today's viewer simply cannot approach it devoid of any historical context. While the film portrays a society striving for civic orderliness, we now know all too well what lurked beneath the veneer of these placid scenes of mid-Thirties Germany. Given that history, these…
No talking about Hitler-and-run accidents?
Are there rules for passing street cars while boarding? Well sure, but look, we're not Nazis about this stuff or anything....
...Is that Megas XLR?
Well, I live in Chicago...
So you can guess how I'm gonna proceed.
Does the modern world's unprecedentedly low mortality rate annoy you?
"that'd be a lot harder to get away with in this day and age."