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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [qb] No, Fawny, I repeat, it's a daft idea, and you're a daft person obviously trying to make a name for himself. I suggest you rein in your little jibes or I might start taking it personally.[/qb][/QUOTE]You know I have typed, retyped and retyped again replies to this for about 15 minutes now. They range from amazed to derisive to angry and hit pretty much all the points in between. However after thinking about it for a bit and having a cup of tea, the main point I want to get across is [i]calm down[/i]. We're on a science fiction board, talking about fictional construction techniques, and there is [i]absolutely no need[/i] to get angry about this. For goodness sake, we're sci-fi fans - there are enough people lining up out there in the big bad world to steal our lunch money without us turning on one another like "Lord of the Flies" with pocket protectors. ;-) I'm willing to extend the old olive branch and apologise if you found any of my comments offensive or felt they were directed at you as anything other than good natured banter. However looking at your comments over this thread - including "daft", "get real" and "you're a daft person" (not to mention the wonderful "trying to make a name" and "taking it personally" lines) I don't think you can honestly say the same. Still, I apologise if you thought even for a moment I was being rude. As for the issue at hand, it's open to individual speculation and since this thread doesn't seem to be going down the road of accommodating that, maybe it's as well to stop here. Which is a pity because I was genuinely having fun with this one and had plenty more points to make in reply to yours. Besides, when it comes down to it there is the image on screen, and Mike Okuda's reply seems to point to it being a construction facility (though he does say he likes the idea of it being a training facility too) and so that leaves enough room for me to think that it might just be possible to factor in some planetside construction phases alongside the ones taking place in space. Anything after that is speculation on the part of individual fans. Finally, I'm not too sure what you mean about the "obviously" thing. I've checked back and as far as I can see I used the word once - and that was when I was talking about the Federation having the ability to manipulate spacetime. Given that they have million ton starships going FTL all over the place I think that's a pretty safe bet, but I didn't use the word past that, so I am not sure where you're going with this. Which is why I'm pointing it out. Obviously. Again, apologies for any comments that you might have taken out of context, but I think we both need to be the bigger men here and see that until someone posts here who has an advanced degree in starship construction (with a possible second elective in planet-based forcefield applications) then we might just have to agree to disagree on our interpretations of a fascinating, diverse, advanced, interesting but above all [i]fictional[/i] universe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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