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The issue is when it becomes a treadmill where the main point is trying to predict things and then years later having it get skewered for being stupidly dated or completely off. I get what you mean, and totally agree. Not everything has to be predictive by a long shot, and "failed" predictions can ...

What is "situational ethics?" Uhm nothing like I thought it meant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_ethics Honestly I thought it had been turned into a person that goes to what ever helps them or their cause the most. The definitions here make me wonder what I had been reading to get that ...

I don't get finding it tiresome or annoying in its own right, as it's one of the major raison d'être of the genre. I'd agree that it's often misused though, and that it should not take precedent over the actual story. Ideally it should be the "high concept" inspiration for the story, rather than irr...

I always thought that the tricorders should be able to generate video imagery the same way the ship sensors apparently did to create imagery for the viewscreen. But apparently most of the writers never thought of that. I think canonically they do, and it has been used in at least one episode. But t...

Well, the IKEA weapon thing, been done a few times, but always strikes me as weird. I mean we know that the transporter is capable of detecting (at least) most weapons, and it's claimed that it can also render them neutral. How it does that we have no idea. Can it blunt a knife? Can it turn a heavy...

And why is the Visor so rubbish? Someone programmed in infrared to X-Ray into this thing, but not a full-colour HD mode? And this isn't just here either, this is the colour scheme they will stick with. My read on it was that the visor wasn't designed to construct camera-like images. It pipes relati...

"The episodes were running up to eight minutes under; the only way to stretch them out was with slow motion. And we tried to keep the slow motion away from the dialogue as much as possible. But anything without dialogue was considered for slow motion." - Dean Learner, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Ha!...

Yeah, it's not a shutter speed thing. It's what happens when someone wants a slow-motion shot, but either they couldn't get the right kind of camera, or they decided they wanted slow motion after the shots were already filmed and can't/won't reshoot. So the only thing they can do is slow down the pl...

Initially, I was a bit surprised about Tuvok being black, I won't lie, but I was equally weirded out by a seemingly white Klingon (Torres), so call that a wash. These days, I'm happy for the extra diversity. Of course, that was a loooooooooong time ago. Decade ago or so. Really? Seems weird given n...

As far as fanwanking goes though, I actually would love to see the Gorn, and not in that cheesy CGI rendition they got in ENT. I want to see that shitty bug-eyed design from TOS. Slightly updated is fine, but that abomination that was cut from Trek '09 was a travesty. Give me bug-eyed lizardman now...