There is no hope

So errr ... what's this Borg trip you're on about about lately, green eyes? Star Trek ... sheeshhh! If he's really bugging you, think curtain fabric. It makes it all kinda spooky ... very cool!

It just seems spookily Borg-like. I like Star Trek: TNG, although I'm not a fanatical Trekkie. They had some radical ideas about social responsibility, which unfortunately went right over the heads of most Americans. Dunno about the rest of the world...

The problem with TNG was that it was all very utopian, safe and desperately right-on, symbolized by Data, who despite his 'liaison' with Tasha Yarr, epitomised the shows detached androgeny. I watched them all of course, and the increasingly rotund jazz-playing Riker and his lecherous grin - yuck. An awful advert for a boring nanny-like future. No, I loved Voyager, although they should have put Neelix out of the airlock. The dysfunctional Seven of Nine and the wonderfully rude Doctor were the two stars. Shame that show ended, really. As for 'Enterprise' if I had to see that miserable captain Archer's puppy-dog, face one more time I would have hit him. What ever happened to the fire and wonder of Captain Kirk? A bad show that went the only way it could go, although it was beginning to pick up a bit at the end. What was their formula - space, a cutesy dog, a girl with big tits and more space perhaps? Embarassing really.

Embarrasing and yet strangely erotic..... ;-)

I had an interview to be the editor of Star Trek magazine once.

Yes there is Tim!!! A bloke sells it my local......oh hope, i thought you said dope. No, no there's no hope left.:-0)

Me have nuff sensi flashster, but respect back at yer.

Ferg, editor of Star Trek magazine? Please tell me that you'd been drinking heavily and stumbled into the wrong building. Please.

ha ha. Loads of people edit magazines that are about things they wouldn't be interested in in their spare time. Although, I quite liked watching Star Trek on TV and have a photographic-ish memory. Also, I was married to someone who thought a good present for Christmas would be a Captain Janeway costume.

"Loads of people edit magazines that are about things they wouldn't be interested in in their spare time." Yeah. But Star Trek? Plus, you're vegan, not vulcan.

Ha ha. I thought it might be fun. I was sick of the air kissing mwah world of women's magazines. What can I say? I won't apologise about it. Variety is the spice of life dear Juicemaster. (and for the record he was wrong about the costume being a good present for Christmas)

I think editing a mag dedicated to Star Trek would be brill. Beats sitting in meetings with primary care trust policy wonks. I never got into 'Voyager': IMO it just didn't compare. The simplistic idealism of TNG kept me absolutely hooked: truth need not be complicated. So it was a little too politically correct? Who cares? It was positively visionary and the Prime Directive had some deeply-embedded anthropological 'isms': not to mess with other cultures; to explore, not exploit; to try to avoid warfare whenever possible through diplomacy. Fantastic! I just loved 'Smoove' Riker and his endless love affairs; but my heart, of course, was with Picard, who (for me at least) represents the ultimate in desirable maleness: literate, mature, emotionally intelligent, etc. .... *deep breath*

I fancied Riker - sans beard, with beard, thin, getting fatter. He was hot. I thought. Unfortunately I've never felt the same way about Patrick Stewart since I saw a picture of him snogging his 26 year old girlfriend earlier this year. God. It was disgusting. He was practically sucking her into his mouth. My favourite was Deep Space Nine, but I never wore the headgear. Just caught it on BBC2 when it was on. What's on at 6 o clock now that's so good eh?

Ewww. I wish you hadn't said that, fergal! I'm devastated! Well, Patrick can do what he wants: -Picard-, however, lives on...I'm sure Patrick S. is nothing like him... (and I fancied Riker, too...)

I quite like anything that shows up religion for the absolute fallacy it is. They are still send out 'archeological expeditions' from America every year to find the remains of Noah's ark!

Actually, there is some historical evidence for Noah's Ark to at least be potentially true; whether it was a form of urban myth or reality is what makes it so tantalising.

i see you are very open minded about religion kev ...

*titter* We all have 'flexible value systems', fish. So it seems..

They are forever running these studies and forever finding the same answers. I remember a documentary a few years ago where the doctor running the study proudly announced that his results "approached statistical significance." That would be statistically insignificant then. The funniest part was all the american heart patients who refused to be prayed for by muslims (this was not long after 9/11). Strangely, as I recall, there was a small bit of evidence in favour of meta reinforment praying, where a second prayer group pray for the first prayer group praying for the patient. Praying does no good, but praying for the prayer does even more no good. I love statistics.

maybe instead of all this some one could help us bring attention to series human rights abuses in the city of Glasgow whcih relate to people who are approaching various services in the city with signs of self harm and the journey this group of people then take within the city wher they have there self esteem stipped, called names have services withheld if they complain. Remember you people live in the Uk, this is happening in part of the UK. Stop the ignorance to this agenda, help me if you can. Dont let them murder anyone else.

Next weeks study, "Tickling no respite for the morbidly obese"

Stephen, I watched 'Panorama' last night about PTSD in soldiers. Even the military wasn't providing mental health services for the soldiers, though it said it was. The soldiers had to make a big stink about it. You need to get the other people in Glasgae together and make a big (peaceful) stink about the mental health services. Make a big enough stink, they'll sit up and notice.

gosh and i was hoping for some tickling respite too ...

Noah's ark is totally literally true. That's why the dinosaurs became extinct. Noah couldn't fit them on the ark. Jude BSc (Batchelor of Silly Crap)

I told a group of my christian workmates last week that I was a creationist and therefore didn't believe in science. They bought it for all of five seconds.

hahah! Now thats funny!

Juicemaster: I did larf out loud. And haven't statistics proven that statistics are statistically --- umm, bollix? Or as the greatest writer to have emerged from America said: There are lies, damnable lies, then statistics. [%sig%]

Statistically speaking, the harassment has to end at some point. Probably when we're finally assimilated into the Borg.