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[Distracted]

The Kirk one's pretty spiffy, too.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Nah! Too yellow for my tastes...

[Kotik]

Soemtimes, I think I#m watching the wrong movie Just found this article

Woman to be set free, if she marries rapist

It's in German. The story boils down to this. A woman in afganistan was raped by a relative a couple of years back and - get this - she was sentenced to 12 years in jail for commiting 'adultery' Now she's been offered to be released from jail, if she marries the rapist, so that the child that resulted from the rape wont be a bastard.

ARE YOU PEOPLE FUCKING NUTS ???!!!

You sentence a rape victim to jail and then force her to marry the motherfucker??!!?? Why don't we just bomb this sick lot of waste of blood and organs off the fucking planet!!! Sorry afghanistan, but if that's your idea of a new society, better be prepared to be extinguished! Damn, that's sick!!

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Marina Sirtis defends Enterprise finale as a fitting end for TNG

[Alelou]

So, in that way, for us, it was kind of a fitting finale.

She's completely right. For Sirtis and Frakes, maybe it was -- for Enterprise or even TNG, NOT.

Makes me wonder if I might have been happier with a combination of the two series that was better-executed, more balanced, and included MY favorite TNG characters. I consider Riker and Troi two of the least interesting ST characters of all time.

Kotik, the law in Afghanistan is weird in many, many ways. They'll also send to jail two consenting adults -- or nonconsenting -- they really don't care -- who are caught having premarital sex, only releasing them if they agree to marry (which usually requires dowries and so doesn't automatically occur and by the way whether these two people actually love each other is completely irrelevant). While watching a documentary on this, it struck me that for some of those women, that life in jail was clearly preferable to what they faced outside jail. There are parts of the world I am just so very thankful I wasn't born in.

[Transwarp]

Marina Sirtis defends Enterprise finale as a fitting end for TNG

I'd have to agree. The worst ever Star Trek episode was a fitting finale for the worst ever Star Trek series.

[Transwarp]

it struck me that for some of those women, that life in jail was clearly preferable to what they faced outside jail.

At least in jail you won't have acid thrown on your face or have your nose cut off by the Taliban.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest and most illiterate places on the planet, and that's just the way the Taliban like it. An ignorant populace is easier to control and mislead. In areas controlled by the government, anyone sending their daughters to school might get a 'night letter' taped to their door, warning them of reprisals if they continue.

And of course, the US has brilliantly told them when we are leaving, so they are prepared to wait us out. And those that have helped the Coalition or worked for the elected government are probably scared spitless, because they will be the first targets of the Taliban after the Coalition pulls out.

Radical Islam has killed many more Muslims than the West, hands down.

[Asso]

Marina Sirtis defends Enterprise finale as a fitting end for TNG

I'd have to agree. The worst ever Star Trek episode was a fitting finale for the worst ever Star Trek series.

How it's true.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Marina Sirtis defends Enterprise finale as a fitting end for TNG

I'd have to agree. The worst ever Star Trek episode was a fitting finale for the worst ever Star Trek series.

Heh!

When I finish my re-watch of TNG (on hiatus at the moment) and start on VOY, we'll see which one of those two shows I'll consider "the worst".

[Transwarp]

When I finish my re-watch of TNG (on hiatus at the moment) and start on VOY, we'll see which one of those two shows I'll consider "the worst".

In my book TNG wins, no contest. It has more annoying characters per capita (including the odious Wesley Crusher). And then there's the unbearably smug Picard. On the positive side, we had Worf and Data.

With VOY, we had to endure the stupefyingly useless Neelix, but for the most part the characters were more entertaining than annoying. Plus we got Seven of Nine (sigh), which counts for a lot.

[Asso]

...Plus we got Seven of Nine (sigh), which counts for a lot.

Definitely.

[Distracted]

Yeah. She counts for two. One one one side and one on the other.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

I have nothing against 7of9, who had a lot more going for her than those two prominent "assets", but I always liked B'Elanna better.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

What children’s drawings would look like if it were painted realistically

My daughter has chosen the Dark Side

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Star Trek star says Enterprise was killed by 'greedy bean counters'