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Yeah it nothing to do with every song sounding almost identical...

I've seen this argument before, I don't agree with it. Genres really don't matter in writing. Science fiction and fantasy may be different sections in the bookstore but they're always right next to each other and the lines are ever blurring between them. Star Trek has always been fantasy regardless of being more grounded in reality than some other options. The key to good fiction of any kind is stories worth telling and characters people care about. The rest of it is just window dressing.

Im strongly against going beyond the end of Voyager. And here's why. Star Trek is Science Fiction, not fantasy. Its supposed to the idea of us today if we dont blow ourselves up. Its looking into the future and seeing what the best of mankind eventually becomes. But its close enough to today to be familar. If we go too far into the future, we end up with science that looks like magic. TOS had the transporter, warp, phasers, tractor beams. TNG had holodeck, nanobots, AI. And ofcourse time travel existed throughout and by the time of Voyager and Enterprise it was shown to be a normal thing by the next generation beyond Voyager. It needs to remain grounded. TOS was explored by that series and the films. The TNG era was mined significantly by TNG, Voyager and DS9. The era with the least exploration was between today and TOS with Enterprise representing a very minor bit. I'd prefer something more in keeping with Earth and how we rise out of all the issues of today to be a peaceful space-faring species. I want space travel to seem hard and complicated and dangerous. The Berman Trek made tension difficult because there were no inter-human issues. DS9 flipped that by making space dangerous again, making it clear the darkness of humanity still existed and it was a fight to be better than our demons but to overcome the evil and bad intentions that existed out there. My two cents. It was always fantasy and to be honest the distinction between science fiction and fantasy (science fantasy) doesn't really exist anyway. The key as always is good writing so it's not just "Look future tech saves the day because it works like that!" You can go further ahead without having to rely on that crutch.

huh well I'll be damned, I had just assumed that the Fall out Boys had disappeared into obscurity.

They'd be better off setting it some place distant to the timelines already covered in the previous entities. Jump forward a few decades from when Voyager ended. You're distant enough so as not to be totally beholden to what's happened in the other series and it allows you to play in the sandbox a little bit. They have literally an entire universe to set a series in, good writers could come up with a premise that will work.

Tom Higgins is to head coaches what Marcel Bellefool is to offensive coordinators. The very definition of settling. He won't be terrible but he's never going to put you over the top.

The problem with Enterprise was that it strayed away from being a prequel and tried to be it's own thing when what people wanted was the prequel. I still say the bulk of the episodes of all the Star Trek were pretty crappy but the good ones are quite good and make people forget just how awful a lot of the stuff was.

The thing to keep in mind is that something like 80% of Star Trek is pure crap, the 20% that was good is pretty damned good but to me most of that came from Deep Space Nine anyway which seems like it's kind of the bastard step child of the Trek series anyway. I liked that it was a bit rougher around the edges and things weren't so perfect. Made it more human.

Not bad when we're missing #1 weapons on offense and the lines need upgrading... seems to me that it's not a core you like it's the supporting players which is what gets you 5 win seasons. I'd also suggest that the depth pretty much blows and injuries screw this team hard, and look at that, been lots of injuries this year and we've needed that depth. So I guess we can say that the middle part of the roster is ok but we need more on both ends of it.

lots of good players, but how many great players? How many guys are legitimately players we can consider among the best at their positions in the league? Some linebackers maybe, Westerman, some DBs perhaps but other than that is there anyone?

But is that a case of PTSD or not? I mean we want a lot of players back but if we had an upgrade on a bunch of these guys would we care if some didn't return?

Outdoor Grey Cup in Winnipeg... It's going to be cold so Burris if he gets there is going to **** the bed like he always does. Only cup he won was indoors and many times he took a good Calgary team to an exit in the Western playoffs because they were outdoors in Calgary and it was nippy out. Guy is such a fair weather qb.

bah the goalies biggest problem before was Eakins system. The guys they had before weren't as useless as they were in Edmonton. Hell look at Dubnyks numbers with Kreuger and what he's doing now. Eakins ruined him for a couple years. Did the same to Scrivens and Fasth. It's not hard to understand, Eakins set that team back years. He talked about having to break guys down and rebuild them. Well he was great at breaking players but absolutely useless at rebuilding them. Todd Mclellan took on a huge task here and there's signs of it working, trouble is the D was decimated prior to him getting there and it's damned near impossible to get top pairing defencemen these days.

Well yeah but Eakins not have Connor McJesus or a couple of the D-men they got now. Sekera who has had a poor start to the season (Eakins had Petry who is a comparable player, maybe even better but I'm a bit of a Petry fan) Gryba who is at best a bottom pairing guy and Reinhart (been hurt a lot of the season) are the defensive changes. Yes McDavid is a whole different animal but honestly it's not the difference in players. Eakins just ******* sucked and made people worse.

It's not a point for screwing up. It's a point for getting the ball into or through the endzone. Making the field goal just has a bigger reward is all.

Same thing with the Oilers, the veterans on the team absolutely suck ass. The young players are the only thing worth a damn on that team. Nurse and Draisaitl stepped up nicely and holy crap is McDavid good. That kid can hockey. Dangerous every time he touched the puck and on the tying goal absolutely clowned Subban along the boards. Subban really can't be losing physical battles on the boards to 18 year old players.

awesome, I was just going to dig this up and post it.

This is the biggest thing to me. Our receivers aren't good enough, we can't seem to find an impact player on the opposite side of Westerman on the DL, the OL has been changing players constantly for the entire time Walters has been here. We've had a bunch of good rbs but none that have really grabbed the job by the balls and taken it. For my money this roster just flat out isn't good enough to start blaming the coach.

Good to see after all that a loony tune can still walk into Parliament and start shooting people. All I know is it's likely Harper's fault...................... It's not Harpers fault, he was hiding in a closet the whole time!

If someone listed his strengths would you actually listen to them though? Or would you just ignore them completely and insist that because he doesn't shave every morning that he's really a terrible coach? You have made up your mind and nothing is going to change it.

Now there's a haircut you can set your watch to

plus you try and play instruments in the cold it's going to sound like utter **** anyway.

Some people just aren't happy unless they're bitching about something.

Should wait until we actually see how his government performed... Usually takes quite a few years to really see the impact of a governments actions.

Let's be completely honest with ourselves here, Miller talking to assistants is probably little more than him talking to his buddy Khari Jones, "Hey Khari you know we're likely going to have an OC position opening up eh? eh? eh?"