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Re: Star Trek’s 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures I thought the alien oil slick episode was awesome. Not only did it benefit from the surprise killing of a regular character early in the series, but it did so in a completely off-hand, unglamorous fashion. When I saw that, for a brief while I had the feeling that danger in TNG was going to be real danger and anything might happen at any time. (Ah, the sweet illusions of naivete.) It helped that I thought Tasha Yar was a lame character played by a lame actress.

Re: Star Trek’s 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures But I want all those weird aliens to come up with crazy ideas, too. Possibly crazier, or at least more alien than what a human could invent. If humans have the most adaptable or inventive or chaotic minds in the galaxy, somehow the galaxy feels smaller to me. I know too many humans to be comfortable with that.

Re: Day-to-day life in space I guess it wouldn't help to have achondroplastic astronauts.

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Re: Star Trek’s 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures I've never cared for the "humans are more adaptable" idea. For one thing, it rather impugns the other intelligent species. For another, I think it'd be fun if humans were just flat out badass in something or another, compared to the galactic norm. Imagine if most aliens were as slow as the Gorn or as small as Hobbits or had weak eyesight, and humans were the ones no one wanted to pick a bar fight with.

Re: Jokes I think the term "anatomic bomb" can apply to either of these comments.

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Re: Star Trek’s 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures I always liked that the Gorn was slow. Why can't humans be the aliens with sweet abilities sometimes?

Re: Day-to-day life in space Neurologically speaking, I'm sure being raised in freefall would mean the brain fails to develop certain functions that we take for granted. At the same time, it may develop other functions that we never foresaw.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Last Thursday: Beowulf I saw it in non-Imax 3D. I thought it was a hoot, very entertaining. I love that Zemeckis is just gunning it, full throttle, with 3D CGI. The fight with the dragon in particular was built for 3D. Grendel was creepy as heck. Brendan Gleeson is a treat in any movie, even an animated one. If you're one of those people who obsesses over the "uncanny valley," please don't see this movie, as I'm very tired of that term and I don't want to hear yet more grousing about it. If you can get past it, though, this movie will rouse the childlike fantasy RPG geek in you

Re: RHex -- "walking" robot I have an urge to squash it.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Does he get a ticket for overclocking?

Re: "Neat" Pictures Here's a shot from the movie.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Pretty sure it was Blue Velvet where he huffed from the mask. The white-haired guy is David Lynch, as you quoted from L. Marcus a few posts ago. Dunno, but it looks like they're wearing a white lab coat, blue lab gloves and have blood on their sleeve.

Re: "Neat" Pictures B&W guy = Depp as Ed Wood in drag Wasn't Dennis Hopper's character named Frank? I missed the bald guy and the corpse.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Zep, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

Re: "Neat" Pictures Whoa, dude, like, psychedelic! Rainbow matter!

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Re: "Neat" Pictures Who do you think made that?

Re: Silly Star Hero game idea: Star Mice

Re: Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time Pleasantville is dystopian?

Re: "Neat" Pictures Dude. A motorcycle like that, you steer with your massive... balance.

Re: "Neat" Pictures But they are used. Maybe they mean not used as the primary light source for the city or something.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Cool site. But they list Austin's moonlight towers as "forgotten" when in fact they're celebrated. Not sure what's going on there.

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