quote:Originally posted by Reverend: Except that it would have violated the idea that nobody knew what Romulans looked like until the 23rd century...unless she kept the whole thing to herself for at least a century.
She might not have known what her father looked like!?! Maybe she thought she had more Vulcan features. OK it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. *Shrug*.
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quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: Yeah I see you point Wiz. Although most people enjoyed season 4, it was basically a repository for TOS backstory. And would we want 3 more years of an RPG Sourcebook?
That "royal Jelly" horseshit was just used in a novel- made the Borg seem half as threatening and quadruplegic Pakleds.
Seriously- the book sucked like a hooker in an open airlock.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: Yeah I see you point Wiz. Although most people enjoyed season 4, it was basically a repository for TOS backstory. And would we want 3 more years of an RPG Sourcebook?
That "royal Jelly" horseshit was just used in a novel- made the Borg seem half as threatening and quadruplegic Pakleds.
Seriously- the book sucked like a hooker in an open airlock.
Are you kidding me? Someone actually took that premise and wrote a book on it? I said it more to make a flippant cutesy remark but to take the notion and make it a novel is beyond ridiculous.
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"But technically, you are blown out into space, not sucked."
As I said, they're the same thing. You get carried out of the airlock by a movement of air. That air is blowing out of the ship. That air is also being sucked out of the ship. It just depends which point-of-view you want to describe it from.
When you drink something through a straw, do you say that you are sucking it into your mouth, or that it is blowing into your mouth?
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Well, I think it has to do with the fact that matter wants to move into a vacuum; a vacuum, being by definition nothing, can't "do" anything like suck. Matter 'wants' to go into an area of low pressure because of how molecules and atoms move in a fluid - vibrating, bouncing off each other, and if there is a larger container with less matter, they logically spread out more. But that's a function of the matter, not the container; or if you like, the air, not the vacuum.
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quote:Originally posted by WizArtist II: I really didn't like the introduction of the Borg on Earth during the Enterprise time period. It just did not make sense. It would only further stretch credibility to make the Borg Queen a human from that time as well. Until Q made his appearance the Borg were unaware of Earth. For a human of that period to get "The Royal Jelly" treatment and become the Queen and then somehow forget all about Earth? That just doesn't work.
I will grant that I like some of the fanboy stuff trying to tie in with the other series. However, there comes a point where its no longer a nod to the previous episodes we've see but becomes a desperate attempt to draw viewers wholly on nostalgia with little real substance. That is the feeling that I had through most of Enterprise. It tried so hard to scream "We are Star Trek TOO! SEE all the stuff we do like the other Treks?" that it had no feel of its own.
That's funny, because when it did have a 'feel of its own', during Seasons 1 and 2, it wasn't nearly as good as when it was more "Star Trek Prequel" during season 4.
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quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: Yeah I see you point Wiz. Although most people enjoyed season 4, it was basically a repository for TOS backstory. And would we want 3 more years of an RPG Sourcebook?
That "royal Jelly" horseshit was just used in a novel- made the Borg seem half as threatening and quadruplegic Pakleds.
Seriously- the book sucked like a hooker in an open airlock.
Are you kidding me? Someone actually took that premise and wrote a book on it? I said it more to make a flippant cutesy remark but to take the notion and make it a novel is beyond ridiculous.
Yep- it's called Resistance. A novel wherein Picard voulentarily becomes Locutous to "hear" the Borg's comminacations and Dr. Crusher just happened to save all the nanobots from when Picard was a Borg...but also the prostetic arm and black rubber suit too- amazing all the crap that survived the old ship's demise, no? And that Starfleet would allow such a collection no less...
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So, in essence, he was re-assimilated. I think we've seen before that when re-assimilated, a borg seems to have it's identity wiped, while keeping the same designation. So, this locutus wouldn't be the same high ranking Locutus that was originally created, would he? It still sounds like a horrible book anyways.
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