Yes, I don't need "dismal" in my movies.

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I guess you are in!

after soaking up all of the science fiction I could find,
as a kid, Star Trek and the New Generation have
taken fond placed in my life. I am editing a "science
friction" book right now. . Trekker. -- j

Absolutely. I recall well, back in 1992 when voting for Harry Reid's Senatorial opponent, Demar Dahl, that Demar ran on a plank that included the privatization of healthcare entirely. Gee, here we are 23 years later with the evolved POS.

Yep, an excellent read.

Pro-futurist, pro-science, optimistic...

What was there not to like? (Wish there were more of that genre.)

Jan

That was one of Heinlein's books. Not one of his best, but still good. My first Heinlein was Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.

Jan

Eomer. Eowyn's brother. I thought he played that part well.

I am glad that he has done well in the industry.

Jan

Yeah, but the illogic, anti-military theme, and the assumption that obtaining a rare mineral was evil kept me from enjoying Avatar as more than a pretty image. The movie even says that 'the next nearest unobtanium is 200 klicks away from the present site'...obviously too far to move after having traveled 5 light years to get there.

So the vision was pretty, but the message ruined the movie for me. (Actually, we are not ruining the Earth - just the opposite.)

Jan

Unintended Consequences by John Ross gives a pretty good history of gun laws and the ATF. Great book to find if you haven't read it.

Fave sci first authors: Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova, Clarke, Asimov, early Orson Scott Card.

I have seen every episode of Star Trek, TNG, DS9, Enterprise, and Voyager. Loved them all... I even own the whole series of TNG on VHS and all of Enterprise on DVD...

Your fav is a Spanish version? Funky and cool.

Anyone care to name their favorite SciFi author? I'd start with Arthur C. Clark with his book "Childhood's End".

Yes. :( love the monkees. All acomplished musicians. Here my fav https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRljpaOe...

Carl Urban was also in part of The Lord of the Rings book by Tolkien. He was one of the horse people, the Rohirrim.

It's happening just like the grasshopper and the ants. Except that now there are more grasshoppers. Hence the gorge in one fashion or another.

Wasn't it established during prohibition? To me it seems that any crime committed in the above could be handled by local law without ATF. Maybe just the firearms to make things like Fast and Furious from happening. I guess that's a bit like paraphrasing Nixon, "If the government does it, it's legal".

True enough. They talk about no need for money, but people are traders and rich, nonetheless. Think Roddenberry had a Utopia in mind, but it may have been a work in progress.

If there was one deficiency in the series, it was in the lack or portrayal of everyday life among the Federation society.

I wish I could live in the world of Star Trek. Can you imagine what it must be like for the every day citizen on earth? I'd definitely enlist.

Shocking the interest in diversity our (cough) president has. The next most qualified person for Attorney General is also a member of the 15% of African Americans we have in the population. Must be a "diversity coincidence".

Seems like all the stuff he is doing by Exec Order, et al, is in desperation that the voting public is going to shut down the progressives. I sure hope so, as long as it doesn't come along with a bunch of social agenda crap.

Time magazine just did an interview with Stevie Nix. I've seen them three times and never realized she was a short as she is.

Read nothing but WWII stuff growing up. Father was a buff, irritated he was a little too young to go. He became a Marine, during Korea.

So irritating the freedom you all fought for is being given up day-by-day in favor of an academic well-meaning, but misplaced faith in socialism.