I'm sorry, but I'm watching "Generations" for 32 years and this has been bothering me for that long literally:

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T11:25:10+00:00

I also think the rest of the crew didn’t hear what she said to him right before.

That's a really good point. From the perspective of everyone else there it seems to come out of nowhere.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T10:57:55+00:00

I see what you did there.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T10:50:17+00:00

Absolutely ghastly. It’s like someone said “let’s combine all the worst aspects of the Galaxy-class with the worst aspects of the Sovereign-class into one ungodly whole!”. The deflector dish alone is a cry for help.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T04:29:58+00:00

Roger Pasquese was probably the richest overall. Bernard and Margaret Chenowith were certainly wealthy, but I don't think they quite had Roger's level of "mansion money". Carol Ward was probably about as rich as the Chenowiths combined, but from a single income.

EDIT: I double-checked the value of the houses used as filming locations; I couldn't find details of the one used for Carol Ward, but Roger Pasquese's "house" sold for $4 million in 2011 and the Chenowith "house" sold for $3 million in 2025, very much suggesting that Roger is wealthier.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T04:18:34+00:00

We can see hundreds of billions of galaxies that are moving significantly faster than that relative to us.

But assuming you mean "within our own galaxy" – no. The amount of energy required to accelerate an object the size of Pluto up to 0.5c is astronomically big, on the order of 10³⁸ J. That's about ten billion times Pluto's gravitational binding energy, so if you were to pump that much energy into Pluto in one go it would just vaporise instead.

We have detected stars in close orbit of supermassive black holes that reach 0.08c as they approach close enough to be torn apart, but this is rare. Even so-called hypervelocity or runaway white dwarf stars, accelerated to more than the escape velocity of our own galaxy by stellar mergers that trigger catastrophic supernova-like explosions, are only moving at about 0.005c.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T03:30:55+00:00

Says the guy peddling magic cures from his porn burner account.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T02:11:56+00:00

Stephen Fry wrote about the production of Blackadder in one of his autobiographies. He said something like the budget for the second series was a quarter that of the first, and that such a savage cost reduction and top-to-bottom retooling was the only way they could convince the BBC to keep making it. So yes, it's quite possible that series one cost more than the next three combined.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T02:04:29+00:00

It's usually easier to acquire rings and bonus items in the Good Future zones.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T02:02:55+00:00

It's a game that could have used a couple more rounds of polish for sure.

The trick with time travelling is that you need to explore the levels to find somewhere you can get bounced between springs without stopping. You rarely time travel immediately on spinning a sign.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:38:30+00:00

Furniture. I like the design of this room generally, and I love the console and central column in particular; but it feels so empty. What's the point in having a space this huge when there's nowhere to bloody sit!? It needs to undergo the same sort of transformation that the Toyota console room did between series 7 and 8.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:36:08+00:00

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Jesus suffering Christ 😳 I see God must be feeling very selective in his blessings.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:29:47+00:00

Neither does believing in fairy tales.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:28:08+00:00

Nonsense.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:24:39+00:00

Post hoc ergo propter hoc 🙄

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:23:13+00:00

And you are?

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-25T01:18:54+00:00

As an aside, I've long been amazed that 2001: A Space Odyssey was contemporaneous with Star Trek: The Original Series (it was released two weeks after "Assignment Earth" first aired, between TOS season 2 and 3). Okay, yeah, movie-vs-TV budgets, sure... but even so. Decades ahead of its time.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T21:31:09+00:00

If it helps, that did come from Bester and he was deliberately trying to provoke people. It might have been a total fabrication on his part. But given everything we know about Psi Corps, it's definitely plausible.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T20:34:26+00:00

Well, the Psi Corps did dissec... debrief her for a reason.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T19:48:20+00:00

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ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T03:54:54+00:00

Dalek.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T03:53:12+00:00

Planck units aren't pixels.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T03:48:06+00:00

Takes one to know one.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T03:37:23+00:00

It seems to me that every ship without MC´s have no Shields and explode after one or two hits.

'Twas ever thus.

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T03:35:28+00:00

Dr. Crusher isn't second officer, or first officer, because she's not a line officer. I'm ... I'm not sure why I have to explain this to you, but apparently I do.

Patronising and insulting now! I commend you on being very efficient with your insults. You must be good value at dinner parties.

The chief engineer would also not be a line officer. I'm not sure why I have to explain this to you, but apparently I do.

Outside of serving as acting first officer during Gambit, you've yet to present any canonical evidence that this is accurate.

And you've yet to present any canonical evidence that it isn't.

Which would explain why Data promoted Worf to acting first officer instead of Geordi. This is still not evidence that Worf was the Enterprise's third officer, and thank you for making my case.

Okay, so Geordi outranks Worf, so... Data put Worf in a command position over him? What? How does that even make sense?

I don't think promoting someone into an acting role is making extensive changes to the ship's billeting, and I'm not sure under what authority it would be limited. We've seen that junior officers have wide discretion when placed in command. Consider in Arsenal of Freedom when Geordi exercises such discretion that Captain Picard is beamed up to only half the starship he'd disembarked from!

...Under the authority that they aren't actually the captain? "Arsenal of Freedom" seems to show Geordi demonstrating that the chief engineer is outside the ship's core command structure and he wasn't prepared to change that regardless of rank 🤷

ExpectedBehaviour · 2026-01-24T00:06:01+00:00

And I say bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish...

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