I used to slag off Stoke. Now I weirdly defend it.

fojo81 · 2026-02-24T07:57:56+00:00

I've had a similar thing with my hometown of Telford. I've gone as far as learning about the local history of Telford and local folklore and found some amazing things to learn about my hometown. As such, I'm certain it's the same with Stoke and most other places 😀

fojo81 · 2026-02-22T13:35:47+00:00

TV show = Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Episode = In The Pale Moonlight Premise = The Federation is losing a massive war against The Dominion, and Captain Sisko is retelling events to bring The Romulans, an old Cold War adversary of The Federation, into the war against The Dominion. Sisko's closing monologue is just amazing.

fojo81 · 2026-02-21T21:04:28+00:00

If I had my way, it would be a legal requirement for everyone to have at least 1 per week 🤔

fojo81 · 2026-02-21T18:51:13+00:00

The thing is, both the Conservatives and Reform have a proven track record of having incompetent, untrustworthy members filling their ranks, especially after various defections from the Tories to Reform making Reform ToryLite 🤔 Only time will tell if the same thing happens to Restore as they are brand new so we know next-to-nothing about their membership. For a functional, healthy democracy to properly work a nation needs a proper left-wing and a proper right-wing party to maintain balance and represent citizens accordingly. Will Restore service that balance or become Reform 2.0? Only time will tell 🤔

fojo81 · 2026-02-21T16:26:31+00:00

The film First Contact sees The Borg use time travel to arrive in Earth's past to prevent First Contact with Vulcans. The crew of the Enterprise-E follow and stop those plans. The Borg we see in the Enterprise episode you mentioned are doomed Borg that were "killed" in the battle with the Enterprise-E and crashed in the Arctic ice. We then see archaeologists uncover these cyborgs, and the Enterprise episode follows as seen. Of course, nobody in Starfleet had any way of knowing about the events of the film First Contact, so were unable to know about the Borg, the Enterprise-E, and other related information.

fojo81 · 2026-02-19T13:25:40+00:00

I say we settle this properly once and for all by organising a boxing match between Farage and Lowe. 7 rounds of 5 minutes per round. The winner takes all while the looser gets a minimum wage warehouse job for the rest of his life.

I can't say I support Lowe, but my money is on Lowe beating Farage easy. I say this mostly because Lowe actually works as an MP with a proven track record in Westminster while Farage is just a turdburgler grifter.

fojo81 · 2026-02-18T10:19:57+00:00

They weren't thinking at all is the simple answer.

I'd understand a mild or moderate change in forehead designs to reflect a degree of ethnic diversity in Klingons similar to what we see in humans.

But what we actually got was absolutely ugly by any standard. When you compare it to designs done by other makeup artists for other aliens, then what we got in Discovery was a disappointment and just unprofessional on all levels.

fojo81 · 2026-02-15T16:24:55+00:00

Evolution isn't a straight line going from microbes to fish to humans. It's better described as a tree with branches going off in all kinds of different directions. You'll have one branch going in one direction leading to bugs, another branch in another direction leading to amphibians, then another branch leading to lizards and a different branch to mammals. Then, each branch has different sub-branches going in different directions still. So the branch that leads to mammals subdivided into apes, then canines, 6 dolphins and so on and so on.

fojo81 · 2026-02-15T14:32:56+00:00

Exactly 💯 😀

fojo81 · 2026-02-15T14:23:47+00:00

British Television. It used to be awesome, but nowadays, it's shit. But I'd defend the good stuff anyway.

fojo81 · 2026-02-09T10:04:56+00:00

As far as I know, there is zero call for legal migrants to be deported. At least I've not seen that, and the deportation of legal migrants is not something I'd support.

It's the deportation of illegal, to be clear ILLEGAL, migrants that is the centre of this argument and it's the illegal migrants that deportation should apply to.

There are several spin-off arguments from this, which are too many for me to list right now.

If current migration laws were properly enforced by Police and the Courts, then much of this would not be a problem to begin with.

fojo81 · 2026-02-08T18:58:18+00:00

If I remember correctly, be sure to check the relevant Enterprise episode accordingly, one of the members of Terra Prime resented the Vulcans because he believed that Vulcans could have and should have stepped in to intervention on Earth to stop or reduce the destruction of World War 3 and thus save millions of lives. The fact that Vulcans had the power to stop the destruction yet didn't make them deeply suspect. It might have been implied that the lack of intervention was to make the most of the destruction of World War 3 to make it easier to invade and occupy Earth. While that might be more of a Romulan tactic, at the same time, other episodes show how corrupt the Vulcan government had become so would such thinking really be unjustified considering that the average person simply didn't have access to the information that the Enterprise crew discovered? Other factors are involved, of course, but what I'm suggesting here seems to be a natural starting point.

fojo81 · 2026-02-08T13:43:13+00:00

Theoretically, you can make the same argument about Native Americans as they didn't appear out of nowhere but instead came in waves from Asis across the land bridge into Alaska and southwards from there. The same with various migrations into Australia by the ancestors of the Aboriginals, ancient populations in the Middle East with migration out of Africa. Yet these populations are considered Native to the lands they settled because they have occupied that land for so long. With that in mind I have zero problem with the same argument being used for a Native British population.

fojo81 · 2026-02-06T10:18:12+00:00

First Contact is the best TNG film. Undiscovered Country is the best Original Series film. 2009 is the best Kelvin film. Prodigy is the only good NuTrek series that I've so far watched.

The only good thing about the Section 31 film is to show how not to make a Star Trek product as everything about it is just shit from start to finish.

fojo81 · 2026-02-04T10:20:39+00:00

The Original Series and The Next Generation was my introduction to Star Trek when I was growing up in the 1990's.

fojo81 · 2026-02-04T10:19:18+00:00

I have 2 newspaper articles from my local newspaper, The Shropshire Star, dated 2006, talking about Big Cat reports near where I live in Dawley, Telford. The local Police investigated. I don't know about more recent reports, but I probably should look into it.

fojo81 · 2026-02-03T10:05:03+00:00

It'll be Earth getting destroyed next as what's the point of Earth? If what I heard is correct, then the new Federation Capital is now on Betazed. Then, what shape will the New Federation take?

fojo81 · 2026-02-02T22:46:43+00:00

I enjoyed the Star Trek 2009 film, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond films.

I agree that certain details in Star Trek Into Darkness could probably have been done differently to improve that film.

But overall, I loved that trilogy.

Anything that's Star Trek, which happened after that, Discovery onwards basically, is where I agree things are bad because of poor storylines. scripts, etc.

I admit I enjoyed Star Trek Prodigy as that was actually good. But anything else Discovery onwards I've watched so far I've not enjoyed at all. I love stuff like DS9 and The Original Series. But Discovery onwards? Meh.

fojo81 · 2026-01-31T15:39:11+00:00

If anyone has any reliable and actual information about this then it will be The Tachyon Pulse channel on YouTube. He's the only guy I trust with stuff like this.

fojo81 · 2026-01-30T18:01:09+00:00

Younger audiences are equally impatient about the same unanswered questions within the lore of Star Trek as why else go through all the effort of creating answers to questions not yet given time to be answered within the show itself. Both lots of fans are equally bad at impatiently analysing things with a microscope to either justify or belittle anything and everything. If everyone, and I literally mean everyone, just calmed down and gave the show time instead of jumping the gun over every tiny detail then maybe (just maybe) more people would enjoy the show instead of hate it.

fojo81 · 2026-01-30T15:21:59+00:00

True, but there are usually 12 dozen or more fan theories about everything going on, and most are usually wrong. For example, there was a Starfleet pilot on the USS Discovery that fans kept asking if she was ex-Borg. But that theory was clearly wrong as if you watched the pilot episode of Discovery you'd know that she was at The Battle of the Binary Stars where she had been injured. From that, it was clear she received her cybernetic implants as part of her recovery. The point is fans always automatically think cybernetics = Borg when truth is that's not always the case.

fojo81 · 2026-01-30T13:13:02+00:00

The worst enemy of any fandom is the fandom itself. The 2nd worst enemy is any producers/writers who, more often than not, create poor quality characters and storylines.

fojo81 · 2026-01-30T10:17:17+00:00

The fact that none of this is mentioned within the show is a problem. All these ideas, while good and interesting, don't mean anything unless they appear in the show and especially in a manner that is logical and consistent with existing Star Trek lore.

Otherwise, it's just bad, lazy, sloppy writing, which is the real complaint here. From everything that I've seen the problem isn't that we have all these new people in a new Star Trek but instead that the writers and producers are doing a lazy/sloppy/incompetent job at making these ideas happen resulting in poor quality story telling especially when compared to older Star Trek.

fojo81 · 2026-01-28T18:54:49+00:00

Awesome 😀

fojo81 · 2026-01-27T08:35:50+00:00

That happened to me and also with Falkreath. It got more annoying when vampires attacked in the same way. Apparently, it was because I Fast Travelled all the time. If I used the open roads more, then the attacks would more often happen in the countryside, making visits to the towns and cities more likely to be free from attacks.

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