Yukaphile wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:45 pm
Anyone remember Batman Begins? Da hell how does building a public transportation system help the poor and financially vulnerable in Gotham? That's not how the economy works.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, the fact people without cars or parking spaces can go to work.
It's not quite as awesome as a free hospital but it's free something.
If my friend's headcanon is true, he's an unknowing agent of Nyarlathotep, he'll get out eventually.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Here's one of my personal headcanons. Chuck brought up how the energy cloud in "Obsession" hadn't mated before and filled the galaxy with other energy clouds? Well... perhaps it's similar, not just to the Crystalline Entity, but the Horta from Janus VI. Perhaps it has a cycle of rebirth, where every specific date, all die out, but one, and then they respawn from there. And who's to say it has to be 50,000 years like it was for the Horta? My headcanon is this coincided with the death of the Ancient Humanoids, or was perhaps responsible for why they were alone in the galaxy with no other sapient life.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
TNG/DS9/Voyager's holograms aren't photonics made of photons. They're fauxtonics made of fauxtons. They've been able to synthesize the basic particles of Discworld's narrativium.
And Trek scientists can use a confusing homophone because why not? Even to our best scientists, what they say sounds like complete gibberish anyway.
Presumably this only applies to English-speaking, uncaptioned Trek, though.
