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Oooohhhhhh! This is a worthy cause! Giant robots kick ass! This was a good show, BTW.

Well, I don't really hate the EU so much as I find most of it unreliable for debate. About half of it is annoying as fuck, though. *cough* Traviss *cough* KJA.

The "Band of the Hand"? Is that some sort of masturbatory reference?

I know I'm going to be bummed when Roger Corman dies. Whenever you see the marquee on the screen saying "Roger Corman Presents" you know you're in for an evening of cheesy goodness!

Actually it makes sense. It has to be something like that, otherwise the only other explanation is that we've grossly overestimated their firepower.

Just a reminder. Since it looks like we in the US are going to be the last ones to see the movie, and a lot of you live in other countries and will get it first, please keep spoilers to a minimum. Or at the very least, use spoiler tags.

This does create a very large problem. Especially since Turbolasers and Blasters are thermal weapons. Perhaps the power level is lowered in the atmosphere? There's also the possibility that they aren't as powerful as we thought. Anyone know what would happen if that much thermal energy was released in an atmosphere?

I want one.

Os@m@ will beat them both. With just his fists!

I don't know who Christian Weston Chandler is.

Sure! I'd be glad to help!

This has always been the rub with things. Once you start having to resort to exotic propulsion to account for lack of secondary effects, then the method of calculating power based on acceleration becomes less reliable.

That's actually a good point. Plus the fact, that in the Terran Empire, they take a perverse pleasure in cruelty. Also, welcome to the board!

I looked into a couple of spoiler, mainly to see who Harrison really was. If what I'm reading is true, I'm kind of disappointed. However, I'm still very excited about the movie.

Here's the article on Memory Alpha about Memory Alpha. There's also this at the bottom. Take it for what it's worth. According to Michael Okuda: "Based on the size and spacing of the windows, I'd estimate that each of the domes must be similar to the Superdome." also "If you look very closely at the far left dome, you might notice a small blue patch on the top of the dome. That's the Memory Alpha emblem."

I have always figured it was a combination of a few factors. One, stories in Star Trek are almost exclusively told from the perspective of the military. Civilian ships are usually not large parts of the story line. Two, the SFX budgets being as limited as they were, the expense of showing large amounts of civilian craft, especially when they weren't important to the story, would have likely been considered a waste of money. Three, space isn't like your standard interstate. It's BIG. REALLY big. Because they aren't in viewing range, doesn't mean they aren't there. I live in the San Francisco bay area, there are a couple of naval bases around here. You don't have a ton of civilian traffic around those bases. If you were filming a TV series based on a navy ship, and you filmed the base, you wouldn't see many civilian ships at all. I suspect it's the same thing in Trek.

Well, how far is the Romulan Neutral Zone from Earth? It's not exactly around the corner, and that's where the Enterprise was when the battle started. The battle had to be going on for at least that long.

Quite a bit. Methuselah was in the books along with Ralph Offenhouse and Clare Redmond from "The Neutral Zone" (TNG) Seriously, this guy needs to write for any future Trek TV series. He's an amazing writer.

The Eugenics Wars Vol. 2: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh By Greg Cox A truly excellent pair of books. I love how he fills in the backstory of how the Eugenics Wars came about, and the role of Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln in trying to halt their rise to power. I'm about halfway through the second book. It's hard to put down.

He used to annoy me to no end, then his posting style kind of grew on me. He's excellent comic relief. Ask him about a certain "Chinese Laundry".

Here's a couple of pictures of my wife.

Beautiful wife you have there, Brian.

Oh? Send me a FB message. I assume it's not for public consumption.

Aren't there some little crab like things that live down there?

I would still love to know who Luci really is.