quote:Originally posted by TSN: Well, thanks to Mr. the Conqueror, enough English people are already French, anyway... :-)
Conan?
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Conan's last name was "the Barbarian".
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except in the big black and white one where his first name was 'Savage Sword of'
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As far as I'm concerned, the Prime Directive is all mumbo-jumbo anyway.
"Noninterference" what's that supposed to be?
Does that mean that if an asteroid were about to strike the planet they wouldn't intervene?
There was an episode in TNG where they invoked the Prime Directive, and managed to save a technologically inferior group from deadly vulcanism (volcanoes, not green-blooded, pointy-eared aliens)anyway.
In addition, the concept of this blasted Darwinian socialism does not sit well with me. I would rather run around the universe pretending to be an angel giving everyone their miracles than I would want to just let people die.
Note that the dieing aliens INCLUDE children, and others who it is absolutely revolting to human conscience to just allow to die.
Well, at least they gave 'em something. But the whole crap about "evolution is more than a theory" was pathetic. Evolution is nothing but a theory until it is decisively proven. The fact that everyone acts like it has been proven already does not prove it.
For all we know, a bunch of Beings of Pure Energy were immediately spawned from the Big Bang, and decided to get together and create an artwork they call life, and stumbled upon a suitable planet and genetically engineered everything there.
When you start using "evolution" and "letting nature take its course" to justify this sort of behavior, you might as well say it is evil to make contact with any creature aside from yourselves. Remember, we are humans, not gods.
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I'm not sure where to begin, but let's just say that, in general, history teaches that whenever a hightech civilization meets with a lowtech one it is bad news for the latter.
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Who said anything about a civilization? I was just talking about a single guy with a lot of tech who wants to amaze the populace, and pretend to be angelic. (heh heh)
Of course, when they see the ship crashing out of the sky after being disabled, they generally mistake you for a fallen angel anyway...
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Going back to this episode.... (and I can at least comment on some of these ENT episodes now as we're finally catching up with the States), I had no problem with this epsiode at all. But one line bothered me a bit, and I don't see any other mention of it in this thread, unless it's appeared somewhere else, if it has, I apologise for bringing up again.
But this was in regards to the Ferengi being mentioned. Did this gnaw, or at least surprise anyone else? -that the Ferengi are running around in Earth's back yard during the 22nd century? It's another 200+ years before the FEDs finally run into them and make first contact.
Anyway, I found it a bit curious...
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As Alice would say, things will get curiouser and curiouser in the weeks to come...
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quote:Originally posted by Chris StarShade: Well, at least they gave 'em something. But the whole crap about "evolution is more than a theory" was pathetic. Evolution is nothing but a theory until it is decisively proven. The fact that everyone acts like it has been proven already does not prove it.
As I recall, science tends to avoid the word "fact", as science dictates that all ideas are open to revision. That said, "theory" is about as close to "fact" as you're liable to hear in science", whereas hypothesis" is for concepts that do not have as massive a body of evidence behind them.
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