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by Mercury01
Sat Feb 13, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: TNG - A Matter of Honor
Replies: 93
Views: 7982

Re: TNG - A Matter of Honor

Here's a fun piece of trivia for you: the Klingon captain is played by Stephen Root.

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by Mercury01
Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:14 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Trans "women" athletes have advantages over cis women
Replies: 127
Views: 8811

Re: Trans "women" athletes have advantages over cis women

"Dealt with". As if South Park is a fair investigative journalism show and not a lazily-written comedy.
by Mercury01
Sun Jan 13, 2019 3:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This site would be way more fun in the naughties...
Replies: 46
Views: 3578

Re: This site would be way more fun in the naughties...

All art is political, so no.
by Mercury01
Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:21 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: Areas where you'd respectfully disagree with Chuck
Replies: 990
Views: 109381

Re: Areas where you'd respectfully disagree with Chuck

Dragon Ball Fan wrote: Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:25 pmmaybe I misunderstood but both this and Chuck's thoughts seem to be advocating to not even try to make peace with aliens if they come.
"If you come in peace, surrender or be destroyed. If you're here to make war, we surrender."
by Mercury01
Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:04 pm
Forum: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Topic: Cost cutting space ships
Replies: 36
Views: 3611

Re: Cost cutting space ships

In one of the Trek sourcebooks (I forget which one), there's a paragraph explaining that during the Dominion War, many Starfleet vessels were rushed into production and sent out. Some of the ships were mostly empty hull, with only engines, weapons, and enough life support for a skeleton crew. I thin...
by Mercury01
Sat Aug 11, 2018 4:04 am
Forum: News
Topic: Billionaires
Replies: 14
Views: 1296

Re: Billionaires

Eat the rich.
by Mercury01
Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: The Myth of Scarcity
Replies: 56
Views: 4546

Re: The Myth of Scarcity

Here's a story endemic of the scarcity myth: Vancouver just instituted a tax on unused housing and the owners are scrambling to sell or rent those properties before the tax goes into effect. That housing could have been used, but wasn't, because it was more profitable to leave it empty long enough t...
by Mercury01
Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:48 pm
Forum: Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Topic: Concerning Necromancy
Replies: 13
Views: 1253

Re: Concerning Necromancy

Consider that when you die, your body stops working. Your blood stops pumping and pools inside you. Your nerves and neurons stop transmitting. Nutrients aren't flowing to the organs to keep them running. In a world where necromancy is possible, a person raised from the dead would probably suffer fro...
by Mercury01
Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:59 pm
Forum: Video Reviews
Topic: Drone (VOY)
Replies: 39
Views: 4609

Re: Drone (VOY)

This is when he had, what alcoholics like to call, a moment of clarity. If he died, he would have only been the DNA harvest of a Borg freak accident. After such a near death experience, he went on to find the air fresher, Neelix's cooking wasn't as bad, and a swing in his step. He now works on his ...
by Mercury01
Tue Jul 17, 2018 4:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: The Myth of Scarcity
Replies: 56
Views: 4546

Re: The Myth of Scarcity

There are enough houses for everyone to live in. https://betterdwelling.com/vacant-homes-global-epidemic-paris-fighting-60-tax/#_ There is enough food for everyone to eat. https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-and-statistics/#produce1 So why do we still allow people to go homel...