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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 438511" data-attributes="member: 177">Femerus:Mark has a point that you seem to be missing.Let us, for the sake of argument, say that you really, really like cheese.  You live near a small grocery that sells gourmet cheeses, and at this market, you have a little weekly club with friends where you sit, do cheese tasing, and discuss all things cheese.And some guy comes in every week, walking through your meeting wearing a placard that says, "Cheese is nasty!"  He picks up a piece from your plate, sniffs it and cheerfully says, "Mmmm!  Smelly!".  He recites a little poem about how cheese is in essense rotted milk.  He repeatedly puts a damper on your cheese club activities.Now, you may feel that he's got a right to an opinion, but you'd probably also be a little annoyed.   With the right to have an opinion comes the responsibility to state that opinion wisely.  The guy is thoroughly rude, and non-constructive.  Mark is right, in that it really doesn't make sense that folks who really don't like the show (and admit they don't actually watch it!)come in to gripe.  If you don't like it, and don't watch it, fine.  If you really must talk about it, go start another thread debating the merits of other sci-fi over Star Trek.  There's no bloody need to come around and harass people who do like it.  The internet allows folks to slip into rude behavior if they don't think.  I doubt that uv23 would state his position in quite the same way if he had to walk into a fan club meeting and say it to fan faces.  That wouldn't be acceptable.  But it is here?  Right, sure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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