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i think the previous commentators don't make sense. Rush is Batman. If you dont like Batman, you don't like Rush.
Have you met really smart people? They are not friendly. Pretty demanding.

But none of you guys are discussing the article. Firefly was about a spaceship crew experiencing real world conditions. Need for money, for food, basic necessities. The same reason i enjoyed Spiderman was because he needed 2 part time jobs in order to support his family.

Real world concerns is what firefly AND BSG were all about. You might not like Scifi that way. You can go to hell.

The reason why the underachieving genius could beat the code was he would have been great if he didnt have to worry about his dying mother. Kindah like Spiderman, if he dint feel that he had to be a superhero to make up for his crime of inaction, he would be a chemical engineer or better.

Don't hate because you don't understand. Like BSG Olmos says, if you dont like it, we dont want you to watch it. Bugger off and watch Atlantis. Cuz this show is 10 times what Atlantis ever could be.

"Look, I can transform, too! Super Hot Megan Fox Level 5!"

it's a little too late for starfleet academy. For one thing, the first movie's over and done. And ppl are barely interested in school much less a fictional school. Ooh, warp calculus.

ppl want blood, battle, and heroics. You need drama and character buildup too but that's just part of the mix and not the central hook. Star Trek the movie worked not on character buildup or drama but the fact that you have HEROES running thru guantlets against a VILLAIN.

let's center on that. The audience has to be hooked into the story before you can make them love the characters.

well, first and foremost, a tv show has to meet requirements. It can't squander all the new faces the movie will bring to the tv show.

1. No technogeekery made up nonsense. warp factor fine. use engine, not warp core. use fuel, not dilithium crystals.

2. No more holodeck. no more replicators. have real food. no more alien cosmetics.

3. cut costs so that it doesnt have such a high standard to hit and it can actually last longer.

You have to do Enterprise because that's what ppl know. But you need freedom to do your own stories, but contradicting abrams' movie will be a Big No.

So here's what you do:
1. Lots of dirt and blood.
2. Recast everyone on it. From Jim Kirk to Sulu, no need for Chekov. Add in an extra girl so that Kirk can sexually tense something. Shade their faces.
3. Now make everyone an Admiral. And age them 60 years. They all have their ships. The first episode is Twilight of the Federation.
Spend money here cuz everyone is gonna die.

Spock is the only one that survives because he's the only one at starfleet academy. He takes the grandkids of kirk, his own daughter, etc and escapes into an alternative timeline.

They come back with a really powerful spaceship and lots of training. They stole it from Spock who forbade them from coming back.

They launch a rebellion. Overarching goal is to rescue their parents. some wnat to stay and fight the bad guys, others want to rescue their dads/moms and go back to their alternate home. And story goes from there.

Star Trek: Federation's End. tada.
you get linkage to the movie, without contradicting it. make your own universe. have less pricy space battles because it's a timeship, not a warship, it can only cloak. Away missions aren't to explore new expensive cultures but to go to earth and find out what prison their parents are in and break them out.

cheap, dramatic, effective, ratings.

Let me get one man!

Love is like a butterfly. No. A mongoose. No. A elephant.
Yes a elephant. it is big. It loves peanuts. And is fat but if you call it fat, it will not have sex with you. And the morning after, you will be met with a steely gaze even though she calls you fat all the time and it's not like we're both young anymore, and you have dreams of her dying accidentally, you collecting her insurance and eloping with the hot young intern from Nebraska.

Hypothetically speaking.

Okay, fellow Republicans, we haven't done anything wrong this decade. Look at the polls. McCain lost cuz he wasn't conservative enough! Okay, so here's what we do. We repeat these 3 things so that Obama can still heal the economy and look like he's doing a bad job.

First, instead of calling him a socialist, we call him "not centrist' enough. That way, he'll be pressured to do republican things, you know, the right way.

Second, we remind the public that they can't love the president forever. There's no way the public can't find it in their hearts to hate Barack. I do! Find all the dirt you can on him, once he heals the economy, we mess him up with whatever we can. That Special Olympics jab should be saved up for that moment.

Third, we take away every power he has so he can't do anything to win popularity. A president has only one power. He hires people. We attack every hire that doesn't have to do with the economy. If he can't reward the people that helps him. No one will help him. If his experts will be attacked no one will advise him.

"But sir, if Obama is such a bad president, why do we need to do all this?Won't he just mess up by himself?"

Four, kill the man that just spoke to me.

What is the value proposition? Let's ignore the other market segments. Normal countries get Home Pre and Prof. I get that. But then you have Business and then Enterprise. And then Ultimate. You say their are multiple requirements for different market segments---But aren't you a platform? If businesses need strict user access rights shouldn't homes need it too?
You know for kids that play WoW too much.

What Microsoft is doing is separating Big Business and small business, mom and dad home users, and college kid users.
That's what their doing. There's no serving multiple requirements. it's just trying to eke out an extra 40 dollars off licenses.
and Ultimate seems like a good value since it combines everything and is no-hassle. Wow 4 licenses in one. But let's just say Ultimate is XP Pro. 300+ bucks! Someone in microsoft has been reading Irrational Rationality too much.