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We've seen situations where the XO isn't a Commander before. Tilly is perhaps the most obvious parallel because she too was only ranked an Ensign when Saru made her XO. But Sisko was also given command of Defiant before he was even given the rank of Captain! His XO was Kira, a member of the Bajoran ...

re: Mariner's age VS her appearance, you have to be careful about using appearances as your yardstick because this is an animated series, and it seems to me like the show is really using visual cues not to show age, but to distinguish the command staff from everyone else. An actual age cue would be ...

I have to say that the animation in this film sucks. Yeah, 1990s did tend to have pretty low production values, but this was made the same year as Cowboy Bebop so i'm not taking that excuse lying down. Given the character designs, I've always assumed it was intentionally retro. It could just be the...

On the official Youtube videos for Daft Punk's individual songs (the music videos of individual scenes of the movie that is), some people were saying that its actually an homage to one of Leiji's works, Galaxy Express 999 which is apparently pronounced "Three Nine". This makes a bit more sense given...

It's not intuitive when you're *reading* it, no, but it makes perfect sense when you're saying it out loud and don't have the number to look at. When your saying it out loud it helps clarify how many digits there are and that you're not stuttering or repeating. It also works as an abbreviation shor...

Also, chiming in on a subject Chuck raised, I am disabled and use walking aids. Any future which keeps me using those aids or having me in a chair, and dares to call itself a Utopia can fuck right off. It is not blessed change or whatever other bullshit gets floated around, it is a crippling. It is...

Irony, hypocrisy. Ultimately it is irrelevant to the fact that my last years' worth of interaction with Mecha is him making out that everyone in every fandom we share is toxic with the exception of himself. He has the self-awareness of a spoon. And hey, he assumed that I was talking about him. I ne...

This is something that '' certain people '' on this forum don't get when talking about STD and PIC. The hopeful future of Star Trek meant a lot to us - including I might add, Martin Luther King. And now its gone. And I thought you couldn't get anymore hypocritical and arrogant than you already had ...

I think it has to do with why the series is subtitled "The Beautiful World". Many of the tragic situations and "life is futile" situations seem to come down to a matter of perspective. The men working on that railroad, for instance, did work that was ultimately pointless because it was undone by the...

I don't agree with that at all. It's all psychological really - someone is motivated strongly enough about something to do something extreme to get it. It doesn't really matter in the slightest how "rational" that motivation is, the only relevant fact is that if they're driven enough to go to that ...