You think you feel like a sucker? Think about us content creators, who put in untold hours on books, music, art or whatever, and find the only people who seem interested in it are those who will only take it for free. I've just about given up writing, myself, due to a total lack of paying customers alongside a…

That uniform's from Ultraman, isn't it!

Yes, and they are disabled by an underground movement aided by Forbin... but in the third book, Colossus and Guardian are reactivated to deal with a new threat, one that they are aware of before they are deactivated. In the end, Colossus and Guardian work out a compromise between the humans and the new threat, saving…

I call it Ado-Bee. As in...

No Close Encounters mothership. Do it again.

Time for a reboot!

Remember, the audience isn't meant to actually read anything on Trek's screens; they're only supposed to gain an appreciation for action/reaction of people working at consoles, doing stuff for your entertainment. That's why there haven't been any useful real-life versions of the interface... in fact, it looks better…

Someone who likes Old School.

They are connected—that is, they use the same body parts—but they are, in fact, two different processes that work in concert with each other.

"Most of the book is given over to the worldbuilding and intense space station combat you'd expect from military science fiction rather than pure space opera."

As the Yellowstone Caldera is now overdue to erupt, and likely to cause damage to the ecosystem similar to the eruption of the Indian ranges that began the demise of the dinosaurs, I expect a major decimation of all living things on Earth and a struggle to build more insulated habitats to shelter humanity until the…

Love to... but I'm afraid there's just not enough time.

Not sure why you're comparing our populations to that of an alien race; conceivably, they could take 95% of their population to the stars and leave 5% behind on the mother planet.

I don't see a Dyson Sphere as an "inevitable" choice for an advanced civilization that wants to preserve itself, mainly, because the power source you're depending on is finite. Sooner or later, the star will die, and if the last-gasp expansion doesn't wipe the inhabitants out, the heat-death of the star will. What…

Actually... no. Statistics are based on measured data only. We're talking about probabilities, not statistics. More importantly, a probability based on a probability. A probability is not a certainty.

"Lots of possibilities" does not guarantee "lots of instances."

OOOOOOOOOooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh. I like that.

I think having a young man, driven by his own ghosts and inspired by the legend of Batman plus the aid of Bruce Wayne, would play well with audiences, much like the Bandaras/Hopkins Zorro movie worked.

A good point. They'd almost certainly have to make some major modifications to the all-black suit to get it to render well on-screen... as well as doing something about the "mask with a mouth." I suppose a CGI "mask" could work, though it'd be tough to make the actor's face read through it.

No, it's not! The Baron is played by Ross Martin, aka Artemis Gordon on the original The Wild, Wild West.