RavenFellBlade @ RavenFellBlade @startrek.website

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Agreed. For a show that started out as just a parody, it pretty quickly developed into a spiritual spin-off.

Sometimes I wonder if Galaxy Quest didn't understand Trek better than some actual Trek shows?

Dude... try rural Illinois. The only internet I can get faster than 3mbps is cellular hotspot, and that's supposed to be 5G but is usually actually 4G out here. That's it. I can get dial-up, DSL, cable that is somehow slower than DSL and constantly disconnects, or hotspot from AT&T.

America is far from the best example of decent internet access if you live more than a few miles from a major urban hub. In fact, in rural areas, your options are not only stupidly limited, but also criminally expensive. For land-based internet at 3mbps where I live costs $6 more per month than my sister-in-law's GB Fiber 20 miles away, and has data caps to boot. It's insane.

It's edgier 2G for an edgier generation.

That's an awful lot of analog tech for the 2000s.

This ended up being the problem! I had it happen a few more times, always after ads, and backing out and playing did fix it. Thank you for the solution! Paramount really is a buggy mess of an app.

I don't know what the deal was with that episode, but Time And Again is playing in 4:3. So I guess it's just that one episode.

Traveling isn't much of an issue, but emigrating can be prevented to some places like Australia and New Zealand.

In defense of The Dark Tower... it isn't an adaptation of the books. It's a sequel. It continues the story in a way in which Roland finally breaks the loop.

Agreed. It bears so little resemblance to the """source material""" that they were legally required to remove all mentions of Stephen King from the film credits and promotional materials when it released on VHS.

The problem with Enterprise's theme is that it undermines the fundamental principles the series had established in every other show. The song along with its imagery may feel like it's fitting for "mankind stepping into the larger galaxy", but it does so at great expense. Everything about that opening is anthropocentric. It's all about humanity and Earth. The show is every bit as broad as its predecessors, but the opening seems to feel like the poster child for HFY fiction. It's jarring.

I'll do it all again. For gloooooory.

When your sole purpose is to use extrajudicial force to subvert justice, how on earth is that not obstruction? Congress doesn't have unilateral authority to undermine the law for their own gain.

Shouldn't these clowns be charged with obstruction of justice?

E-vil minds that plot destructioooooon!

Sorcerer of Death's constructioooon!

Came here to say this! We love a Jeffrey Combs episode.

From experience, there is nothing preventing you from leaving, except that anything you do has to be close enough to the bus lot and meticulously scheduled to allow for you to drive from the bus lot to where you need to be and back while also allowing any prep time, especially if you need to pretrip your bus.

In other words, in theory, you can do whatever you want. In practice, you're straight up tethered to that lot. I worked out my actual pay last year. I made $22/hrs working for a major national transportation service. My average paid time was about 6.5 hours. My layover time was two separate segments. I had 2.5 hours of driving in the AM, about 1.5 in the late AM, and another 2.5 in the PM. These were separate by 2 hours, and then 2.5 hours. So, the reality of this schedule meant that I couldn't do much of anything on my downtime. I was obligated to 11 hours, only 6.5 of which I was paid. So, the reality was that I was making $13/hr. That math convinced me not to return this year. That, and my shit benefits caused me to get a $1,400 lab bill for work that was only $45 on my previous insurance. They screw you. They screw you coming, they screw you going, and anything that goes wrong is always your fault, while they're quick to take credit when things go well.

It ain't worth it.

Toys'R'Us with Jesus as CEO.

Paul derailed the Church right out of the gate. Here's a guy who has had an absurd amount of control over the fate of Christianity who never met Christ, and who advocates principles that directly contradict Christ's own teachings while being very similar to the teaching of the Jewish temple Paul previously held power in as a Pharisee. Paul took Christ's teachings and merged them into a contemptible, incoherent hybrid of Christ's message and the Jewish law-focused faith, brought full circle back into a religious bureaucracy by the Roman Catholics.