c'mon, guys - in a Star Trek thread?!

i was planning to catch The Shallows and Don't Breathe as soon as they hit redbox and now i'm gonna add The Neon Demon to the list. partly because i don't think any of those movies ever made it to this area but also because i just can't get behind paying movie theatre prices for stuff that isn't can't-wait or might…

i just found a brand new copy of the VERONICA MARS movie at Big Lots for $3.

(excitedly drives all the way to Oregon before remembering the references to New England in the article)

well, except for 'roids.

my boss just became a dual citizen a couple years ago, american (where she was born and lives) and italian (where her family hails from) - there was apparently some degree of paperwork and hassles but she was able to do it, for some reason.

obama said it, in my dreams.

i love people who fly the confederate flag. it allows me to dismiss them as a worthless piece of shit without the need for any further interaction. it makes my life so much easier!

i'm a Captain America fan, myself. but, yeah, i get it.

find a running mate who'll suggest we add "Fuck tha Police" to that platform and i'm sold.

the fuck aren't we able to upvote shit like this more than once?! that was succinct and right on.

if you're into chicks, let me suggest Keri Russell in The Americans, Famke Jensen in one of those Bond movies and, uhm, Colonel Kira as Colonel Anastasia Komananov, KGB.

honestly, i think free and almost omnipresent reruns were the key to Star Trek's popularity - when the show is always on the television dial somewhere (as it was for huge portions of the 70s and 80s, especially after UHF channels started popping up) everyone winds up becoming familiar with that, not just a niche…

even better, how the Federation then promptly decided without qualm to use those fully sentient and highly intelligent (if sorta rude) holograms for the equivalent of slave labor by having them do the most unpleasant menial tasks they could find.

my impression was that all three (replicators, transporters and holodecks) are essentially different applications of the same essential technology, which is essentially molecular manipulation. once you master the process of copying an entire person (and their consciousness!), tearing it apart and reassembling it, it…

the DS9 ep "In The Cards" has a really good exchange about this, as a matter of fact - the episode is all about the station commander's son, who wants to get his dad a baseball card to cheer him up. (it's one of my favorite episodes of the series, actually.)

i'm probably not remembering them all but, on reflection, it seems like a lot of Crichton's stories just sorta… stopped. no, i don't expect you to put the dinosaur gene-y (ugh, puns!) back in the bottle but i'd kind of like more of an ending a little more satisfying than "So we escaped the island and no one ever…

in Denny O'Neil's DOC SAVAGE mini-series from the late 80's, Clark's son attends that concert and hates it so much he leaves early, derisively citing Lennon's quote about the band being "more popular than Christianity" - and then, if i remember right, gets gunned down after beating some bikers to death outside the…

this makes me want to watch the old yul brenner movie but i kinda remember that it wasn't good? has anyone seen it more recently than, i dunno, 1986 or so?

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