

You may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.
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You may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.


Beat me to it. Also, please remove me from this mailing list.


He will portray Neevok, half man, half dog, half orchid.


Thomas is the one in a Cardassian prison. I wonder how he’s doing.


He was already famous for inventing duotronics, and the M-5 debacle was probably classified or otherwise not common knowledge.


A flea and a fly in a flue
Were trapped, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “let us flee!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea
So they fled through a flaw in the flue.


Unrelated anecdote:
Years ago I had a cheap Blackberry lookalike phone. It had a button lock feature to prevent butt dialing, but some bright spark decided that the lock wouldn’t apply to the ‘9’ and ‘1’ keys, presumably so that a user could dial 9-1-1 even if too panicked to unlock the keypad. Which just meant that it was really easy to butt dial 9-1-1…


Reminiscent of the University of Minnesota project to sneak bugs into the Linux kernel.


Data has always understood humor. He may not experience the emotion of mirth, but you don’t need that to understand humor. He is pretending not to understand as a practical joke.


At least Alexander got to join the House of Martok. All Kurn got was a memory wipe.


Fun fact: One of Jonathan Frakes’ first jobs in show biz was dressing up as Captain America at comic book conventions.



I am experiencing doubt


He’s not a child, he’s 34!
Almost certainly. You’d have to go out of your way to find a keyfob system that doesn’t. I administer a keyfob system at work, and I can tell you exactly whose key was used on which doors and at what times.
It almost certainly will record every usage of the keyfob. It may also record opening the door from inside.


I. Am. Koloth.
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