Warbler

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

I had a parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence when I was a kid. It was probably a Bicentennial thing since my family visited Philly in '76.

I have one of the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They sold those things at historic sites in Philly. The did so in the 80’s as well. For all I know, they still might.

I was just in Philly today visiting the Museum of the American Revolution.

They still sell the parchment copies of the various historic documents.

TV’s Frink said:

Well this is pretty disgusting.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/24/16021108/mo-brooks-ad-congressional-baseball-shooting

Yeah, for some reason, I don’t think it is appropriate to use the audio from a shooting in a campaign ad.

moviefreakedmind said:

which is a good reminder as to why I hate people.

I mean no offense by this, but this is what I first thought of when I read that comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEscJnV8whA

When they thought it led to the their present day Alpha Quadrant, they weren’t too concerned about beaming deep inside Romulan Space. Presumably the original plan was to beam into Romulan Space and hitch a ride back to Federation Space. So why not do that and then once in Federation Space, find a ship and slingshot around the sun.

btw, I noticed a plot hole in an episode of Voyager on tv the other day. It was the one where they find that very small wormwhole. They discover it leads back to the alpha quadrant. They make contact with a Romulan. They come up with a plan to beam everyone through the wormhole. Yoyager would be lost, but the crew would be back home. Only one problem, they find out at the end of the episode that the wormhole not only travels to the Alpha quadrant, but 20 years into the past. So they give up again.

Just one problem: the writers of this episode must have forgotten about TOS Episodes “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” and “Assignment: Earth” Star Trek IV, and Star Trek First Contract". All the crew would have needed to do is beam through the wormhole and find a warp capable ship and slingshot around a sun using the correct calculations and they could travel 20 years into the future.

SPOILERS

I think it obvious the writer of the article never watched Star Trek V. If he, we would be saying it is unlike Spock to keep secrets. Until that that movie, Kirk and Mccoy and the others never knew Spock had a half brother. It there for would not surprise me that he wouldn’t say anything about having an adopted sister.

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

Yeah, things sadly got pretty goofy towards the end with him. I liked him better with shades of gray. Would have been more poetic if Kira had been able to kill him though.

Worf should have killed him, for Jadzia.

What would you have thought about him being tried and executed for crimes against Bajor? I think that would’ve been the best and most just way to end him.

hmm, perhaos tried, sentenced to death, killed by Worf while attempting escape?

That has to be an alternative fact.

moviefreakedmind said:

The King James is the only one that takes an artful and poetic approach to translating it, which is all I care about when reading it. Scholars probably want it more direct, but if they’re true scholars they’d be studying the original versions in the original languages.

I think many scholars do just that.

I assure you, I was not Bible bashing.

I will always wonder what you originally wrote.

I will.

I posted it here because this is one of the threads I blew up in.

Mike O said:

Well, I see my psychiatrist tomorrow for the first time in about five weeks. I have no idea how it’ll go. I’ll be honest and hope for the best, by it’s hard to be honest when you aren’t even sure about things yourself.

I hope everything went ok. I hope things get better for you.

I am very sorry your friend passed away. I know what it is like to lose someone close. The only advice I can give you is to let yourself mourn. Give yourself time. Pace yourself. I’ll be praying for you.

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1092020

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1092020

She may well be a good actress and she may be a good pick if you are looking for female Doctor. But I just can’t accept a female Doctor. Sorry.

What I wouldn’t have had a problem with, is if they had just done a spin off with a female Timelord. They could have had the Doctor bump into some lady and notices that she has one of those pocket watches. Maybe her parents hid her on earth to save her from the time war or something like that. The pocket watch opens and she remembers she is a Time Lady, and she remembers that she has a tardis hidden as something. Have it be that the Chamelon circuit actually works on her Tardis. I probably would like that show.

I do agree with you about having more stand alone episodes. I am also tired of the overblown epicness all the time. Another thing a tired of is the sort of killing off of companions. Why can’t companions leave like they did in the original series?

oojason said:

Warbler said:

oojason said:

Tobar said:

oojason said:

We have seen / been told that Gallifreyans regenerate into a different sex before too - The Corsair or The Master/Missy for example…

There’s that tired excuse again. This “precedent” was created after Moffat was accused of sexism and the new fangirls started demanding a female Doctor. Since then to combat that image he kowtowed and started to introduce those elements. Nowhere in the classic series is something like this hinted at. If NuWho can’t get the Doctor’s age right, I’m certainly not going to trust it with something like this.

I’ll be watching the Christmas Special and first episode of series 11 but will probably be stopping after that. I would not be surprised to see the show’s ratings start to drop after this.

Not so much a ‘tired excuse’ if it is new, no?

 

To me it’s all the same series - Doctor Who.

We also recently saw a Gallifreyan regenerate from an old white man into a young black woman - just seemed to be part of the Gallifreyan life.

Did it ever happen before Missy came along? Did it ever happen in the old series? We went 50 years without a regeneration causing a gender change. Moffat added that capability for PC reasons, as oojason said.

I certainly didn’t say it was for pc reasons.

Correct, you didn’t. I don’t know how I thought you had said that. I should have said “as Tobar said”. Again, you have my apologies.

I’m sorry for how I acted earlier. I am still not a fan of making the Doctor a woman, but I shouldn’t have blown up as much as I did about it.

SilverWook said:

Yeah, things sadly got pretty goofy towards the end with him. I liked him better with shades of gray. Would have been more poetic if Kira had been able to kill him though.

Worf should have killed him, for Jadzia.

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

my opinion is that the electoral college needs changing*, and gerrymandering needs to be fixed.

*I would change from votes to points, the eliminate the faithless elector problem.

You were very much in favor of faithless electors a few months ago.

that was an extreme situation.

Good journalism and healthy discourse are very important. More important than a free a fair voting process? Not sure. but I won’t argue it.

Yes the minority can be right and the majority wrong, but I still don’t think you want a minority of the people making all the decisions.

my opinion is that the electoral college needs changing*, and gerrymandering needs to be fixed.

*I would change from votes to points, the eliminate the faithless elector problem. Each state would get the number electoral points equal the number of electoral votes they get now. Points would be rewarded in each state by the percentage of the popular vote in the candidate wins in each state. Lets NJ has 20 electoral points. Lets say candidate X wins 50% of the popular vote in NJ. Candidate X would be awarded 10 electoral points from NJ.

indeed. 😦