Is that Hanford, CA? lol, I remember the drinking water problem there.

I just hope they eventually cast some fully Britishized actor originally out of Hong Kong… one trained in certain things Hong Kong actors are known for. I want a kung fu Doctor. :p

Semantics.

Our democracy is a great democracy the way an antique car is a great car: great in its time, but it’s time for an upgrade.

All they have to do is, instead of calling it a “law”, call it “militia regulation” instead. “Militia” is the entire arms bearing populace; if you own a gun, you are, by definition, part of the Militia. And the 2nd amendment doesn’t merely say “everyone has a gun”; it does so in context of maintaining a “well regulated militia”. All the right to “keep and bear arms” does is prevent them from requiring we store our arms in a central armory (which was one of the controversies over the matter in England when the right was in development).

I would say we also have a right to own a car. That doesn’t prevent them from requiring we maintain the capacity to bear responsibility if we should accidentally exercise that right improperly.

I’m pretty sure my brother reached numbers like this for Ghostbusters (TV edit) when he was a little kid.

Maye that’s a round number in their non-decimal numbering system?

You could even do something like snap your finger in the middle of your field of vision, and then use your hand as an interface.

In fact, the only way that you could pray to make impression,
On the era ahead is that instead of being notable,
You make the data describing you undecodable.

MC Frontalot, “Secrets From the Future”

I don’t know a lot of them, mostly just a set of Star Trek ones I heard on Doctor Demento decades ago. But recently I have enjoyed Aurelio Voltaire’s “USS Make Shit Up”.

That sounds more like post-post-post-Roddenberry Trek.

Gene Roddenberry: We’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense, but don’t worry, it’ll get better.

Every fantasy author (except Tolkien): We’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense, but humanity’s salvation will come from an individual or small group who will save the world through the judicious application of violence.

I’m not exactly a “fan”, but I remember years ago really enjoying a brief comic run called “Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Lost Universe’”, published under an almost equally brief label called “Tekno Comix”. I was really disappointed when they went under.

Back in 2014, “he” was still considered by many to double up as a gender neutral singular pronoun (which was the standard in English for at least a century). The rehabilitation of “they” as a gender neutral singular is very, very recent. I had to be actively taught not to use it that way back in the late '80s.

This, of course, was the proscriptivist position. Kids who “don’t know any better” have always used a gender neutral singular “they” until their teachers told them not to.

lol, clever.

I suppose it could have. My problem is that when I watch a show, it’s mostly for the competence porn. SG1 and SGA were that, in spades. SGU wasn’t that, at least in the beginning, and I don’t typically last beyond three episodes when it’s clear that the genre isn’t even what I’m looking for.

Teal’c or Data?

And then there’s the abomination known as Stargate: Universe.

This feels very Midwestern/Southern, like my grandma’s jello with celery in it.

They’ll run as fast as people from KENYA