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I like darker and violent shows, but I also like variety. Unfortunately I think the general modus operandi in modern media is "how can we make this more like [insert something popular]?" Since anti-heroes are all the rage, I think Paramount/CBS have been doing backflips for years to figure out how to make Star Trek focused on anti-heroes. TNG Season 1 and 2 had some storytelling problems (and I think that Roddenberry himself created some issues and you just feel a fight behind the scenes about the show was going on in that it lurches back and forth a good bit and can't seem to decide how to use some of the characters), but I'd still rank them over season 5 which is, IMO the worst season so far on my re-watching (but even Season 5 has some good episodes). I think the thing about TNG that helps it is a really, really good cast.

I think its part of the same thing - its an erosion of the original idea that removes the "problems" so that it ends up basically remaking anything that was unique so that instead it becomes every other SF show or movie.

Its funny, because I find the erosion of the 'ideal' of Star Trek to begin in TNG. The producers hated that Rodenberry wouldn't allow the characters to squabble amid themselves (much as Ellison, two decades earlier, couldn't believe that humanity wouldn't still be doing drugs for recreation which caused the fallout over COTEOF), and while TNG may have only been a step away from Rodenberry's vision, by the time you get Voyager you can tell that the mixed crew of Starfleet and Maquis was designed so the producers could allow a reason for the crew to bicker amid themselves. Enterprise, being set before Starfleet comes into being does similar. Then JJ's reboot does away with the idea entirely, and the post JJReboot seems to fall in line with that. Unfortunately most modern storytellers can't get past the present day to project themselves into a theoretically better tomorrow, IMO. Plus all the people who want Star Trek to be Star Wars...

Chain of Command TNG A good two parter; the strength of the story is the characters and their conflicts which have parallel conflicts of personality and will.

Goku by the end of one of the DBZs was supposedly able to destroy solar systems vs Superman who in the silve age could move sun's around and was more or less immortal..those debates never ended.

*has flashback to Superman vs Goku debates on usenet* *dies*

I guess the Cornish are considered too assimilated to assist and thus get attacked - or does Ireland have some sort of historic grudge with them?

I don't disagree with you, I've always wished there was a major team called the Spiders in the modern day, and since there was a Cleveland Spiders, it'd have had ties to the city's baseball history. BUT if it was even considered, I bet some marketing people crunched some numbers and were like "Nope, Arachnophobia is real."

I was rooting for the Cleveland Lake Shores to make a return. 😄 Pretty sure they weren't going to return to the Napoleons... While I'd love for a team to be called the Spiders, I think there's too many arachnophobes around to make that a viable name anymore. But seriously, I kinda like that the name ties in with the city. Here's hoping the logo design is faux art deco to match the art deco statues.

Funnily enough they did the same thing when I was in high school. ...well, except the actual year I was to take it when they changed the rules so that I couldn't take it unless I wanted to do it out of school for a fee, a move that was so decried they changed it back the next year, but I'd missed the only window where it'd have fit in my hs schedule...

Which is all well and fine until its found by a universe that is a giant three-dimensional Homer Simpson...

Can't...unsee.... 💀

I get emails from the public asking why my staff haven't processed a request they sent on Saturday and its now on Sunday, a day later. Our offices are only open M-F.

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IIRC they were only going to suborbital space for 5 minutes or so.

Well its not just language, but social-cultural norms. If it was language it wouldn't be as mysterious to those whose native language isn't English as the language would imply the use. This is a situation where we understand the greeting as a social convention that defies the actual use of the language. Its possible that its an artifact from another culture (although the likely suspects don't seem to have kept it), but just as likely to be something that was uniquely formed too.

I confess I'm curious about mushroom ketchup now. I bet with the right spices it'd be a good sauce for certain meats. As an aside, the early recipes for tomato ketchup had anchovies(!!!!!) in it. The progenitor of ketchup was a pickled fish brine sauce, which may explain the anchovy... As to ketchup vs catsup, if the etymologies for the word are correct, ketchup may come closer (the exact etymology isn't known, but the thought is that it comes from the Chinese kê-chiap) which was, as mentioned above a pickled brine sauce. There are some similar words also thought to possibly be the origin that are closer to soy sauces. The only fruit needed for a pizza is a tomato. I'm not sure here that I've seen slaw and chili on anything other than hot dogs - but on hot dogs it is popular.

I've wondered if this is a case where the language and methods of salesmen overtook the greater generic greeting "How do you do?" (the correct response was, of course, to say "How do you do?" back). However, a traveling salesperson (either on a wagon traveling town-to-town or walking door-to-door in a city) might literally ask "How are you?" to start a conversation as a wind-up for their pitch (particularly if selling anything purporting to be medicine). Overtime, use of "How are you?" could have replaced "How do you do" as the generic social greeting to which a real answer wouldn't be necessary, only a response that acknowledges the two are well met. No clue if that is what happened, but I do wonder.

In the US, tomato sauce isn't typically made with vinegar and sugar like ketchup, but instead with oil, stock or broth and spices. The best hot dog for me is topped with cole slaw, chilli, onions (if not in the chilli) and maybe mustard. Can't say I've ever done Sauekraut on a hot dog, although my mom used to cut up hotdogs and put IN her Sauerkraut (but I think it was a substitute for some other sausage).

Just because the study was botched doesn't mean the drug isn't useful - it just means the study isn't. You can't really draw a conclusion about the drug efficacy.

Tomato ketchup is, technically, a tomato sauce, but not all tomato sauces qualify as tomato ketchup. However, ketchup is typically used as a condiment. Not all ketchup has to be Tomato, either. The original English preparations used mushrooms to make the ketchup.