I feel like that also drove a lot of colonization for humanity. It doesn’t make sense that so many people would want to leave Earth if it became paradise unless it wasn’t as fulfilling and you could be in charge of more if you went off world.

MACOs on ENT should have logically made Malcolm redundant

Not really. It would relieve Malcolm of his security role, but he was still tactical officer. A lot of naval ships had marines on board to serve security roles while weapons maintenance and operation would be performed by a different group of naval officers and seamen.

A lot of times in Star Trek, the being that gets omnipotent powers just kind of fucks off when they find the toys they’ve been playing with are no longer fun.

Yeah. They were supposed to have a year of hell. The best they could do was a two parter where everything went back to normal in the end.

I feel like it wasn’t just Kes who had this problem.

The Doctor and Seven were probably the best written characters. Tom and B’Lenna were probably the next two after that. Janeway only got better because she could act as a bad parent to Seven, which vastly improved her character and gave her focus. Neelix and Tuvok kind of drifted off to the background. Kim and Chakotay were blander than that, although Kim got a few decent character beats.

I’m not going to fault the actors on this, since this was the writing.

Voyager was probably the most high concept of the era’s Trek and didn’t really fulfill that promise. It is funny that DS9 kept better track of its roundabouts over Voyager’s shuttles.

They really didn’t nail down the writing of the crew. The Doctor and Seven are the best written. However, out of the rest of the crew, only Tom Paris seems somewhat consistent.

You get some good episodes out of it, but I don’t think it plays with the parts of Trek they were given to its fullest extent. I also feel like, while some of the shows are pure Trek, they aren’t Voyager.

Enterprise was great when it was allowed to be the prequel it was meant to be. The actors were great. Set and prop design was on point. There were interesting ideas to explore during that time like the Vulcan-Andorian Cold War and the increasing destabilization cause by Romulus.

Cut the Temporal Cold War and the Xindi and Enterprise could have gone on for seven seasons and we might have seen the Earth-Romulus War.

They’ve been getting creative in building their brands.

Chicken’s done?

As someone also measured as gifted and put in gifted classes, there was an interesting discussion that I had with one of the teachers about how the views for approaching gifted education was changing.

For a lot of schools, the “gifted” students are gifts; you don’t have to spend time on their education and they may end up helping the classes they are in. So, it is ok to treat them like normal kids and they won’t become a problem.

However, studies have shown that to be really bad for the “gifted” students. You get a lot of underperforming students who don’t engage with the material as it is mentally underwhelming. Soft skills that they were supposed to learn were never developed because they never had to. You even had issues with developing social skills as the distance in standard deviations between gifted and normal children are the same as between a normal kid and a “special education” kid.

The findings were showing you had to treat the “gifted” students with the same care as those in “special education” as the common teaching techniques don’t work, issues are much more varied between children, and being able to lean on talent in some cases leads to skills not being learned because they never needed to be.

Sounds like you were kept with the normal kids.

Bring able to do those sorts of problems isn’t important.

Having the logic solving ability to do those sorts of problems is.

What would it be typical? I would expect a WAN to cover the planet and specific services geared towards sending packets back and forth between Earth.

An interesting idea is if a sneakernet system will be a good idea in space.

I thought more recent studies have placed the missing mass as the collective mass of the Oort Cloud, especially as the plutinos have been found to have wildly different orbits than the inner rocky planets and the gas giants.

Yep. Now is the time to express your choice to change local politics and influence those who vote on the national platform.

So what is the list and how bad are their fender systems?

Wishing for deflation in a vacuum means reducing demand, which typically a sign of depression in the economy.

If you want to decrease prices without collapsing the economy, you are going to need significant government intervention. Fortune doesn’t want to tout that as an option since their readers would likely be affected by higher taxes due to this.

The USA has free market Jesus, something most other countries never had for as long as America. Since religion was decoupled from the state, religion could be whatever put butts in seats.

No, I mean Benjamin Franklin.

Because Franklin fucked up the direction.

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