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Also, that one didn't seem to leave any scars.

I think that refusing to hold her hand was unforgivable.

I mentioned to my wife, after Sam had asked, that the Doctor had, in fact, been in love at least once, and maybe three times, but I wasn't sure one of them counted.

Seems I was wrong. That one did count.

I wonder why the old TOS fans like me are less impatient with fundamentals of human existence being presented through the growth of young adults?

I'm a TNG person myself. One thing that I very much liked about TNG, DS9, SNW, and to an extent VOY was the competency porn. (And then totally inverted in LDK)

This show doesn't have much of that. It doesn't even have what ENT had, which learning to be the professionals we want to see. This is still kids learning to be adults. That's a different journey entirely.

Don't get me wrong, I quite like it. But it has issues. But then, don't they all?

I'll stop picking nits when I'm cold and dead. We trekkies have a reputation to uphold, after all.

But I've go nothing of substance that I object to. It's a bloody good show.

Sometimes I think it's a backlash against what we see as stupid rules that are imposed on us for no reason. We legitimately do want to be able to dispense with the bullshit, and admire people who can.

Might have been. But there are dozens of us.

I trust they replied "lol, no."

According to the TNG tech manual, the smooth curves of the ship makes it easier to maintain a warp field in a shape that uses less power while traveling at warp. So, not aerodynamic, but voidynamic, or something.

In this case, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. Nothing more.

Always has been. Sometimes my enemy's enemy and I want the same thing for a little while.

Maxim 29.

They just use more power.

I see several. Most notably that we seem to keep winding up with leaders that want to enrich themselves rather than make thing better for everyone.

No, it shuffles on, a decaying zombie shell of it's former theoretical glory.

Still, you put it well. I'm impressed with your literary talent. Tell me, have you ever considered writing a Hungarian phrase book?