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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Completely agreed here. My patience for people treating Treknology discussion like immunology research has eroded incredibly rapidly over the past year. I mean, seriously. Stop, and take a look at yourselves. Can we stop taking everything so seriously? Can we stop forming "research groups" and embarking upon round after round of snotty cliquey back-slapping for working together to solve the intricate mysteries of kitbashes like you were curing bloody cancer? Likewise, can we stop crawling up to these people and crying like little babies that we need to see these pictures now-now-now or else? Having this place show a little maturity and rise above a fanboy circle-jerk takes two things. Firstly, like Shik said, is to stop getting our panties in such a twist over not seeing photos. But secondly, can we start treating this like it was, well, I dunno, fun? And between friends? And not enormously important to the Earth's rotation about the sun? Our "research-group" strikes me as being just as guilty as this as the hordes of brownnosers crawling about their feet begging for a look-in. Instead of passing around photos clearly intended to be seen by anybody to whoever can suck up the most, can we just smile and laugh and concede that's irrelevant if you or me or Bernd of the Russian Secret Service see them? Instead of worrying about incorportating ships we didn't know existed after watching the episode fifty bazillion times into canon and proceeding to scream and yell and curse at one another, can we just inject a little bit of Timoism into the whole affair and at least acknowledge that it is a frickin' TV show with real-world variables that are invariably going to make rationalizing everything an exercise in silliness? So, listen up guys: Post the frickin' pictures. Ask that they not be distributed if you wish. Put big ugly copywrite notices across them. Whatever. I'll look at them for five minutes, and if inspiration strikes me to write a comment or two, then I will. I won't use them to build a thermonuclear bomb. I won't suddenly stop respecting the illustrious Corps of PhD. Starshipologists who spend a week after getting concrete proof still arguing if a saucer was elliptical or not. And if you don't want to post them, and would rather listen to the plaintiff whining mews of those who will lose their erection if they don't see them within 48 hours, then do so as well. Either way, somewhere right now in the real world someone will be born, someone will get their first kiss, someone will get married, and someone will die. I don't really care that pictures of these ships exist. I do care that there are too many sticks up too many asses and that its making this place a less-enjoyable place to be. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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