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All these episodes of the original series include visits to planets that have not had many or any previous visits, "strange new worlds". The Cage (planet has been visited by a single previous expedition, which crashed.) Miri (previously unvisited planet.) Shore Leave The Galileo Seven The...

Pat Pulling started BADD in 1983, but it can't have been the only reason.

I haven't been able to find confirmation, but precedent would suggest that it came out at GenCon of that year, August 18-21.

Pebble In The Sky, Asimov's first novel (set on a far future Earth that is rebelling against a Galactic Empire of human origin), was published in 1950. Poul Anderson's first Dominic Flandry story came out in 1951. It's close, but Asimov got there first.

This, on the other hand, is a most implausible narrative; nothing that you've said prior to this suggests that you could have been around during World War II.

Uh, slight correction -- the revised version of Triplanetary was published as a book in 1948, but the original version of it was first serialized in 1934. (And if you want to get really dry, you need to go back to Doc's The Skylark of Space, which was published in 1928.)

Much now becomes clear. <nods>

Will minor illusion or silent image work?

This is a definite no. There are much more heroic factions than the Coalition. This not so definite, but still no.

Emphasis mine.

He said that he wanted her "in the ground". I'm sure that he enjoyed watching her get crushed by rocks, but would prefer a more European style execution.

You're the one who was complaining that people who defended Wanda were contemptible for being so invested in the defense of a fictional character. I return the favor. And I'm always hostile to people who want to burn the witch, and cite the finale of the Dark Phoenix saga as a model for other...

Individuals not recognized as persons do not normally file living wills, which are then referenced in regards to the disposal of their remains, last I checked.

So what? Why should I give a crap about them? It's not like they're real. You're much too invested in these fictional people. You asked for it.

From Wikipedia's page on "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer": "The running gag was that Keyrock would speak in a slick and smoothly self-assured manner—but with obviously feigned naiveté—to a jury or an audience about how things in the modern world supposedly "confuse and frighten" him. He often...

My apologies, then. It's a shame that your attempts to express this confusion are indistinguishable from attempts to provoke the anger of those who do become so invested, out of amusement at their frustration.

I am constantly disgusted by the vitriol people employ when attacking fictional characters for their supposed crimes against equally fictional characters. Also, bemused means "confused", not "amused", which is what you clearly meant.

Most likely, as with those who think the word "definite" is spelled "defiant", he imagines that "divisive" is spelled "decisive".

Who's Nat, and why are you telling her to rally?

Increasingly unimpressed.