If you're gonna do DS9, you kinda have to commit. It's the most serial of the series - not at all episodic like TNG. It's an arc from beginning to end - watching it out of order makes it make no sense at all, and it can be pretty goddamn dark. But it's really nuanced and well-written, and it tends to be more about the…

I'm the hugest Trek nerd and I couldn't *stand* Cpt. Janeway. I felt like Mulgrew did her best but the writers for that show were just pisspoor at characterization - Janeway was really neutered to me - her passions were always somewhat motherly.

And if you don't know what "streets ahead" means, you're streets behind. :)

I freakin' loved Shabanu, there's a really good sequel to it, also.

When I was 16, I started dating a 19 year old, and it continued until I was 19 and he was 22. I don't know why neither I nor anyone else seemed to find this even remotely scandalous. In retrospect, it's a little squicky, though at no point was he ever in a position of social power over me - he was a super nerd and…

Wolf Hudson.

I would like to assert that I have dominant as fuck circuitry. We're in the bedroom? I'm the boss, applesauce. Am I really so rare?

I'm 26 and since I was 22 or 23, I've been less than totally monogamous. For a while, I had a primary and a secondary relationship and I worked my ass off making it work, but after a while I just had to realize that it wasn't making me happy. I'm now in a largely exclusive relationship with the formerly secondary…

There is both serious wrong and right in this comment, depending on how I read it. Are you saying that nonmonogamy is an expression of a lack of self-control and that it's overly immature? Or are you saying that the evolutionary psych argument for "spreading one's seed" or "gaining genetic diversity" is some hashed…

Crude, but oh so true.

@LaComtesse: This is for everyone asking - Visa processes are REALLY simple and not terribly expensive if you're from a commonwealth country. I'm Canadian, and I got a working holiday visa for about $100, and it's good for 12 months. You can work any job for up to 3 months. When I went, which, granted, was 5 years…

It's sorta weird territory for me because I *am* a physically affectionate person, but I really only like hugging people I know at least fairly well. As a general rule, anyway. An exception is during Pride events, I like to wear a "free hugs" shirt, and then is a time I like hugging random strangers because there is a…

I'm a total alpha female, and I don't think that has a negative connotation for me. I'm not ever actually or maliciously mean, I just get shit done without waiting around waffling about decisions and such. I'm take charge, kinda bossy but extremely nurturing. I think it comes from being really community minded and the…

it's insane, this guy's taint.

For realz! It's out March 29th. I don't expect it to be great - Really, only the first three are what I'd consider good reads, but I'm compelled. Ayla is just so freakin' rad.

Oh my god. That is so fucking unfair. My sympathies.

I cosplay Dax, so, uh.. Yeah. My partner is a huge Trek nerd too - our firstborn son is totally getting "Tiberius" for a middle name.

OK, but... Did y'all miss the part in the AP article that says: "Giffords spokesman C.J. Karamargin says the tweet and Facebook posting were written by a member of her staff."??

I love you for this.

14 year old NOTHIN', I just read those for the first time last year at age 25. It's heavy handed but pretty goddamn erotic when you consider it was written by a bookish mother of five. The sixth book is out in a month!!