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Come to think of it, Seven's reaction to getting severed from the Collective seems unusually strong in comparison to others. The closest to her situation would be Hugh, and he was mainly confused about his new condition, and quite calm. Even beyond him, I can't think of any freshly removed drones w...

This might sound a bit weird, but "The Ultimate Computer" weirdly feels like it would have made a good series finale for TOS. Anyone else get that feeling from it?

The Academician’s private residences shall remain off-limits to the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retroviral capability, we are not researching retroviral engineering, and we shall not allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this ridiculous witch hunt!” —Fedor Petrov, Vi...

I dunno, IS Yang's ideology wrong? I mean from the pure practicality of it all. Because centralised planning and "group before individual' is gaining a lot of traction around the globe right now. Well, certain parts of the world anyway. There are more than a few countries where that was already the...

The game's opening mystery, Who killed Captain Garland... is never solved and apparently doesn't have an answer That was answered in the ebook prequel that was published on the SMAC website. The murderer was a crewmember who firmly believed mankind was going to make the exact same mistakes as befor...

And as the game progresses it just keeps getting darker. hell my favorite secret project is The Singularity Inductor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB46XpnwhrA). In Civ the grand projects inspired you, made you feel like you've accomplished something. With this game, some of them just feel like "...

That first contact with Voice was wonderfully eerie, nice job. I love the diversity of the factions for this game, it's very rare that you get so many differing ideologies in such great quantities for the same product. I'm a big fan of the end game changer that Planet is ultimately alive. Biotechnol...

Someone mentioned X-COM in another thread and it got me thinking that the 1970s television series UFO would seem right up his alley. It's very garish exterior hides quite a lot to be analysed including the personal costs to keeping an organisation secret, the questionable righteousness of Earth's wa...

God, this is a strange one to look at from a writing perspective. Enterprise could have been superb even with the lacklustre storylines, if the characterisation had been there. I think they hit the right note character-wise when they decided that Scott Bakula wasn't Jack Bauer in space, but instead ...

Trek's one weakness when it comes to developing their alien races, has always ironically been one of the Planet of Hats, even for long-term races like the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, even the Vulcans. Me personally, I'm a huge fan of Duane's Rihannsu depiction of Romulan culture in "My Enemy, M...