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There's precedent for Federation medicine not working on everyone. Kirk with Retinax, for example. In this case, however, they stated that Georgie's brain was not capable of processing visual information. I think they said it was a hereditary defect? I wonder if they're going to have Enterprise...

At least they weren't replaced with Cylons.

Palladium. Wolfen with Psionics. Four days of travel by horse completed in 8 hours or so, by sprinting and using Resist Fatigue ;)

Yes, that's my point. The writers not limiting transporter use by some means like a massive computer load, or progressively large power requirements, set the stage for abuse. The fewer the limits, the more why ask, "Why don't they just use the transporter to..."

Sort of how people will tend to thrash a rental car because they're paying for it, I guess?

That could be it. Supposedly Heinz does a version of ketchup that's sweetened with sugar, rather than HFCS, and there was a case of someone relabeling the HFCS stuff to appear to be the stuff that was sweetened with sugar. If I remember the story right the fakes fermented in a hot warehouse and...

Things really started to get toxic when the newsgroups hit big, publicly.

That's definitely more what I was looking for. I have this weird memory of ketchup not having anywhere near as much sugar, in the '60s, but can't find anything to support it. Everything I find seems to indicate that sweetness has been the main note since the late 1800s.

I managed to find the Heinz no sugar added ketchup today and had it on my usual Friday burgers. Not bad. I was hoping for a more tomatoey flavour with far less sweetness but, unfortunately, they added Sucralose to make up for the missing high fructose corn syrup. Funny thing is that on the...

I'm talking more about the people who claim their 1st level Fighter is "Champion of Greyhawk, Slayer of the Great Wyrm Magnus, ....."

This feels like as good a place as any for this. For backers, the GenCon cut of the 4th Gamers movie, "The Gamers: Dorkness Falls" is going to be online until 11:59PM PST (US/Canada) on Sunday. You should have received your link and password via Kickstarter update. This is not the final...

I make a reasonably detailed, but short backstory for a character if I'm making up a character that already has experience. Say, for creating a 9th level D&D character. If I'm making up a new, 1st level character then it's a couple of sentences, at best. What life experience does that character...

They have used the transporter buffer to suspend transport, for a short time, in order to do things like deactivate the weapons of incoming people. The idea of a long term suspension was a really bad idea. They could have mitigated it somewhat by perhaps saying that it would require an...

I'm guessing that it's one of the reasons that Seth MacFarlane only has shuttles in his Federation analogue and only (I think) one highly advanced alien society displayed transporter-like tech.

The transporter can solve virtually all of their problems, which is one thing you need to overlook if you want to enjoy the stories. For example why wouldn't they just run anyone infected through the transporter, using earlier DNA samples as a filter, to remove the Gorn embryos? Similar stuff...

True, but I wonder if they might have missed a bet by not putting something like "123456 Inc, acting under the name...." in the contract might not end up being an issue. It at least bears legal scrutiny.

That's interesting. She made an agreement for arbitration with an entity that doesn't legally exist. Hmmmmm........

My immediate thought was that the principal is embezzling from Nevermore.

They added some Redshirts because they knew Kirk would have a higher bodycount?

There's a whole episode of "The Outer Limits" based on that concept. "The equation must be balanced."