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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 29-6-2017 om 22:01 schreef anim8rfsk:   
   > In article <59553a8b$0$767$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,   
   >  Wouter Valentijn  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Op 28-6-2017 om 23:16 schreef anim8rfsk:   
   >>> In article , Obveeus    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 6/28/2017 3:13 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>>>> In article ,   
   >>>>>   Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>> Obveeus  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 6/26/2017 3:30 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> Obveeus  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> If you are going to rag on the show as being incompetent for   
   >>>>>>>>>> changing   
   >>>>>>>>>> the look of 'known things', how do you resolve the changes within   
   >>>>>>>>>> the   
   >>>>>>>>>> original cast era (such as the Klingon's face/head)?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> They explained that.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Yep...with hand-wavium silliness that negated the simple reality that   
   >>>>>>>> the Trek film modified the look of the Klingons because the original   
   >>>>>>>> look was too simplistic and lame for a film.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> And yet the Vulcans got a pass.  Aren't all of us humanoids supposed to   
   >>>>>>> be closely related in Trek anyway?  Seems kind of racist that there   
   >>>>>>> hasn't been a lot more interbreeding . . .   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Yeah, there was an ep of TNG in which it was established that most of   
   >>>>>> the   
   >>>>>> humanoids in this galaxy have something encoded in their DNA that   
   >>>>>> produces   
   >>>>>> a   
   >>>>>> holographic message when reassembled.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I _HATE_ "magic DNA" eps!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yeah, wasn't it humans, Vulcans, Klingons, and Romulans?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I think it was just Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons...with Humans   
   >>>> evolving independently rather than being seeded.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wiki says humans, Kardashians, Klingons and Romulans are involved.  It   
   >>> makes sense for Kardashians to be non human.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> You'd think the Klingonese DNA would be so screwed up that their portion   
   >>>>> wouldn't work.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Well, it is now...ever since the bumpy head event.   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh, Hell, I'll pull it up on the Netflix.  First time for TNG.   
   >>>   
   >>> "The Chase" - TNG always did have uninspired titles.   
   >>>   
   >>> How does Will sneak this guy into the observation lounge without Picard   
   >>> knowing?   
   >>>   
   >>> Best part of TNG - the TMP theme song.   
   >>>   
   >>> oh, God, no, guest star Tara King, the woman that destroyed The Avengers!   
   >>>   
   >>> Troy is real.  Not Troi, Troy.   
   >>>   
   >>> How do you possibly know that finding an unknown treasure will take 3   
   >>> months to less than a year?  Wouldn't the time frame be zero to infinity?   
   >>   
   >> Optimism?   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Why is Picard talking to an Irish setter in a blue uniform?   
   >>>   
   >>> The incompetent ship's doctor can't save Picard's old friend.  Imagine   
   >>> my surprise.   
   >>   
   >> And ironically the old friend once WAS a doctor. :-)   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Troi is annoying.   
   >>>   
   >>> Why would the Professor's diary say where to go after this, if he's   
   >>> following a trail?  Why are they going back to a planet the professor   
   >>> had already been to?   
   >>>   
   >>> If the Klingons can just effortlessly destroy the biosphere of a planet,   
   >>> why haven't they killed everybody everywhere yet?   
   >>   
   >> Deals with the UFP?   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> How can you not take a biosample from a planet with the transporter?   
   >>>   
   >>> Why does Picard assign the incompetent doctor to design a computer   
   >>> program to find the missing fragment?   
   >>>   
   >>> Why does a lifeless planet having once had an ocean mean it once   
   >>> supported life?   
   >>>   
   >>> How did the Kardashians go to the wrong planet, figure out it was the   
   >>> wrong planet, through some mysterious mechanism figure out what the   
   >>> right planet is, and get there 30 seconds after the Enterprise?   
   >>>   
   >>> How come the ancient alien is one of Odo's people?   
   >>   
   >> Bad luck?   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Okay, the final answer is - there's a bunch of fragments from a bunch of   
   >>> worlds, and it's totally unclear how many, much less who is included and   
   >>> who is not.  But apparently Kardashians, Romulans, and Earthers are   
   >>> related, and presumably all humanoids in 'this part of the galaxy' are,   
   >>> which doesn't explain all the humanoids over there in the Delta quadrant.   
   >>>   
   >>> God this is a lousy show.   
   >>   
   >> Extremely bad science. That's not how it works.   
   >>   
   >> The Preservers as an explanation was much cooler for human types across   
   >> the galaxy. Parallel evolution would be slightly more plausible.   
   >   
   > Yep.  We already had the Preservers and Sargon's people.  And whoever   
   > the Hell built Miri's planet, which looks just like Earth, but is   
   > *older*  There was no reason for this stupid crap episode at all.   
   >   
      
   One of my reference books (forgot which one, maybe 'Worlds of the   
   Federation'?), speculated that Earth's solar system went through some   
   gigantic cosmic replicator (or something like that), resulting in that   
   Earth duplicate in 'Miri'.   
      
      
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   Wouter Valentijn www.j3v.net   
      
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