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But on the other hand, materials and construction weren't as advanced, and structural integrity fields weren't a thing. Building it strong enough for a planetary landing that was hardly ever expected to occur would have been a serious overhead, and might have compromised performance.

You can. Ted Lasso immediately comes to mind.

And had a ridiculously short service life. After the Enterprise stayed around for over 20 years with a few refits, the Enterprise-A gets called back for decommissioning only a few years later.

After he told the Ewoks that he'd smite them with his magic. He did choose to impersonate a deity contrary to his programming, he just wasn't very persuasive at it.

I'm a fan of the sleeker Enterprises. The E always felt large and imposing on-screen. The D had this magic trick of looking either big and powerful or sleek and fast depending upon the angle it was viewed from. I've always liked the Ambassador class, it managed to truly feel like a transitional...

Heartbeat by The Pet Shop Boys went very vampire-themed on the music video at least, as I recall.

When it gets to the point that reality can be overwritten at a whim, it's very difficult to make it feel like anything actually matters.

But at least he gets to keep his other horn.

On the other hand, accepting the idea of sentient, free-willed beings that are literally built to serve can lead to some dangerous failures of imagination. We see it in-universe during the prequel trilogy - a galaxy inured to having sentient servants in the form of droids collectively then has...

I'm pretty sure indifferent nature didn't endow us with any fundamental rights to life or liberty. In the absence of divinity, the only ones who can grant or withhold those rights (to any thinking being) are each other.

Heh, yeah, that's not Chopper. The little psycho's mean streak goes way beyond "need", and while he's predominantly loyal to his crewmates he's fully capable of disobeying and acting selfishly. It's just K-2SO, by the way.

Okay, but what about a droid like Chopper? He's an astromech droid, he's literally built to fix and maintain starships, yet he has a mean temper and a higher body count than pretty much any other droid in the franchise. Was that programmed in by his manufacturer, or by Hera, or is it a...

Researching park aesthetics is still research.

Looking distinctly Geigeresque around 1:41. Does this presage the ultimate merging of overtired franchises culminating in Aliens vs Dinosaurs a few years from now?

Yeah, no. She was given 48 hours to finalise the withdrawal of valued Imperial citizens into the Imperial base so that they could subsequently be evacuated, and was still technically in charge to the precise extent that she was obliged to actually give the order once everything was in place...

And if it had been left up to Dedra, they'd probably have done something like that. She does subtle. But she was cut out of the planning phase in favour of Krennic's people, and Krennic doesn't do subtle. They don't need to do any of that, though. All they need is an armed scuffle and an excuse...

They covered the set-up pretty well. The Ghorman rebels could feel that the Empire was actively goading them into stronger action and cooler heads had been prevailing to try to keep things small, but finally they were backed into a corner, which was exactly what the Empire wanted. And part of...

To be fair, it does take an awful lot to put him down. But you still see each shot damaging him.

To be fair, I don't think we have mechanical stats for horse-drawn carriages either. The closest equivalent to a sky coach would probably be a stagecoach with built-in propulsion equivalent to a team of horses.

Indeed, one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever.