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It wasn't that long ago that a swan killed a man in Chicago. He got too close to the nesting pair, and - IIRC - it knocked him out of his boat and held him underwater until he died. Adult Sheldon was incapable of taking a train trip by himself without incident. Mary was probably trying to prevent WWIII from starting.

Oh, I meant the entire site, not just the Counting On subset. The same thing happens with every iteration. Moderation overreactions and other changes drive enough people away that it eventually dies, then a new version pops up, and history repeats itself.

Has anyone started a pool on how long it will take this forum to die? It's the, what? fourth? fifth?, incarnation of TWOP.

The lawyers could push for a number of reasons. They want the money, they want to try to make a name for themselves, they see a SCOTUS case as a resume enhancer ... I guess the real question is how long JB's ego overrides his miserliness.

Does she have Bendi, though? She said there were conditions like Bendi that cause Vulcans to lose control. It's canon that she's already a loose cannon. By Vulcan standards.

Someone on Youtube played that clip backwards. Universal Koala said, "It's not your time, Bradward Boimler."

"She took a vow not to consume her patients." Can we take a moment and consider what the future version's of the Hippocratic oath is if it included tidbits like that? Are there specie specific versions? Do all doctors vow not to eat their patients? Narj looked a lot like a walking banana, after all.

He told Tendi he saw a koala after she did CPR to revive him after he drowned. I think that would count if the Universal Koala is the harbinger of true death. And that was a sentence I never thought I'd write.

KInd of a meh episode, overall. Did like that T'Lyn helped Boimler out. She's fitting in surprisingly well for a new character. Was this the first time we heard Taylor and Big Murf's names? Didn't Boimler die in Paradoxus as well? I can't recall the exchange, but he woke up in Sickbay, thought he'd been dreaming and T'Ana made some offhand remark about being dead.

I know my issue with Mariner is that she joined Star Fleet willingly. She knew what it was going to be like better than most people. It's been long established that getting into Star Fleet Academy isn't easy. Getting assigned to something other than Starbase 80 is a privilege. She's taking the place of someone who wants to be there. And she doesn't care that she's prevented someone who actually wanted to join from being there. I've only seen bits and pieces of Voyager, but I recognized all the throwbacks. Maybe that's why I never cared for it too much - I've seen the worst episodes. Definitely glad the gang got promoted! I was afraid the show would keep them stuck as ensigns for the entire run of the series. I can't imagine watching an entire cast of Ensign Kims would be much fun in the long run.

Is it wrong that I totally want a Moopsy of my own? Just something about a terrifying monster being so adorable! So T'Ana really is a cat in lab coat. The hiding under the bed and pspspspsps works for me. I'm not so happy with the Papa Bear being unhappy with the relationship. The guy died, he looks after his bear pack, he leads a Bajoran dirge chorus - dude deserves some happiness. The callback to TNG workout scene was funny, as well.

Guess I'll be the devil's - Crowley's? - advocate here. I hated this season. "Good Omens" is one of my favorite reads, and I can't recall how many copies I've bought to give to friends and family as presents. Sadly, it looks like Pratchett was the real genius behind this particular story. This second season just didn't do anything for me. I didn't care for any of the shopkeepers. They were padding to a story that needed more focus and depth. The trying to force Nina and Maggie into a couple was annoying. We're supposed to believe that Heaven - which is really big on the whole free will thing - is okay with a miracle roofie? It didn't help that both characters were just unlikable. At least they called them out on it. Neither angels nor demons are human. They don't have human emotions, let alone genders or even corporeal bodies. That was specifically pointed out in the book, and it makes logical sense. If you live in Heaven or Hell, you have no need for all the gooey bits and embarrassing bodily functions. Which, as great as Liz Carr is, it made no sense that an angel would be disabled. She would have been far better cast as one of the shopkeepers. At least then those scenes would have had some really solid acting. The romance between Gabriel and Beelzebub was just bizarre. Beelzebub was supposed to be a terrifying Prince(ss) of Hell, not some wimpy, goth wannabe giving away pet flies. The Gabriel amnesia bit was overplayed for me, but I didn't care for Hamm in Season 1 either. I did love that Crowley kept his terrified houseplants after he got evicted. That was just such a great character insight into him in the book. Jane Austin's secret career was a blast, and I would much rather had some of that than the shopkeepers. The jukebox only playing Buddy Holly was a nice throwback to the book, where every cassette in the car eventually turns into Queen. And where was Adam Young in all of this? He was such a major part of the story, he literally has god-like abilities, and he's not interested in stopping Heaven and Hell from trying another round? This was just a placeholder for the third season, so I hope that is much better.

Okay, I just caught the trailer for the next season. Of all the wonderful Easter Eggs, I think my favorite was Rom using the Grand Nagus' scepter as a baseball bat.

There's a reason you rarely hear follow-up stories about child prodigies. While they have the intellect to handle college courses at a young age, they don't have the emotional maturity to deal with the stress. They tend to drop out and eventually find a career that doesn't draw attention to their abilities. Paige's story is closer to the norm than Sheldon. Well, a turtle inventing a wormhole-traveling spaceship is more realistic than Sheldon, but still ... Oh, I started college at 14 as a female math/CS/physics major and no one, and I mean no one, went out of their way to coddle me. I was another student, just one who couldn't drive yet.

There were so, so many things wrong with this episode, but I have to ask: Where the hell did the Borg Queen get a cube? Their cube in First Contact was destroyed and they went to the past in a sphere. That was destroyed but not before they beamed aboard the Enterprise. There was no Borg vessels left at the end of the movie. More importantly, why the hell was the Borg queen still around? Did they just dump her and her drones into space like some sort of garbage? If you weren't going to study the queen for intel reasons, at least beam the whole Borg discollective into the Sun! Don't leave them around - in the past! - like some demented Lego block hoping no one steps on it in the future. Gates McFadden's delivery of, "A lot's happened in the last 20 years" amused me far more than it should have.

Because you are using logic and thinking through the ramifications. The writers did not.

Theoretically, yes. If you had something like thermite that has it's own oxidizing agent. But it would have be a chemical reaction that could take place in the very low temperature of space. If nothing else, it's not the first time Star Trek has done this. The Cardassians did it in DS9, I think they did it when Voyager got home. Not sure if it was done at other times.

Here's something that's been gnawing at me all day. Why did the Borg modify Picard? At the time, he was in his 60s. He was past the age most humans start families (even from what we've seen in the show.) They had access to his memories, so they know it would be unlikely he'd want to start a family. Even if you buy the idea they could predict Picard, after the accidental death of his family, would want one of his own, there's no guarantee he'd find someone to start it with. The odds he'd unintentionally knock up Beverly seems pretty slim. Well, except for the fact that the former Head of Star Fleet medical seems to be a pretty bad doctor, if we're to believe the writers of this season. What if Beverly had an abortion? What if Jack died in an accident as a child? What if the Changeling goons accidentally killed him in any of the multiple attacks on their medical shuttle? The plan relies on too many unknowns to even be remotely logical. It's the last time the old gang is going to be together. Would shelling a few bucks for a decent writer have been too much?

To be fair, he is the most Christmas ornamenty looking character on the show. Now I want a T'Ana ornament for my cat to destroy .... play with as it dangles from the tree.

I've been following various sites about this episode, and the most commented thing I've seen is, "They finally turned on the lights!" Get a clue Hollywood. When people watch a show or movie, they want to be able to watch the show or movie, not listen to sounds set to vague shadowy movement.

She didn't detect the anomaly, but, as Picard described it, the side effects of the modification. It's like a modern doctor seeing someone is bleeding from every orifice and saying they need a shower, rather than they have some variety of hemorrhagic fever.

Oh, I forgot this. Seriously. You have a guy of questionable character who can mind control others. You tell him he's about to be sent to Vulcan for a psychic lobotomy, and no one thinks that he might, oh, I don't know ... mind control people to get away?

Transporters are one of the most crucial and delicate systems on board. Anyone can change them to modify the genetic code of everyone who uses them. Someone should have listened to Bones McCoy. After facing the Borg for years, not one person raised a concern about the actual Borgification of Star Fleet? One rogue character could take control of the entire fleet. Who the hell thought this was a good idea? When the did the galaxy start shrinking? This is like the last season of Game of Thrones where people magically travel distances overnight that used to take weeks. I still don't care about Jack. How could no one detect the anomalous DNA in Picard? You have transporters that reassemble people at a subatomic level. You can alter someone to appear as another species. The genetic modifications necessary to make different species' hybrids have been around since TOS. They have the ability to genetically modify humans after birth. That just doesn't make any sense that no one could detect the changes the Borg made. Which raises the question: Why did the Borg do it? Were they expecting him to be recaptured and deBorgified? Nothing we've seen indicated the Borg thought that far in advance. Attack, assimilate, move on has always been their strategy. "Seven of Nine" Sorry that fell flat for me. It was too obvious that he'd do it in his dying breath, like this was some galactic soap opera. Would have worked much better if he had just called her Seven during the fighting. Focus on her reaction and move on. Then kill the bloody red shirt.

I'm not going to rehash all the nonsense and plot holes others have already pointed out. I found myself watching this and constantly checking the time. I was going to say a decent editor could have cut this down to 20 minutes, then I realized a decent editor could have cut this whole season down to 20 minutes. Even I don't know if that's hyperbole. And just get to the damn point about Jack. I can't think of anything from the previous shows that would relate to whatever he's supposed to be. Borg technology isn't genetic, but they've thrown basic science, continuity and common sense out, so maybe they'll go there. Of course, maybe it's "God" from Star Trek: V.

Not to mention the Changelings dropped piles of baby goop into space to explore and find their way home.