Pseudoscience

Stardestroyer.net ^ | 2000.11.18 | Michael Wong

[Junior]

I loved the Alien series, especially the first two movies. I'm still waiting for Hollywood to churn out an "Alien vs. Predator" movie, seeing as how the second Predator movie firmly established the two franchises share the same universe (look in the Predator's trophy case). Can you imagine woosy-boy Picard being hunted by a Predator? Kirk would have stood a fighting chance, but Picard would probably ask it to reconsider its un-politically correct ways while maybe getting Troi to psychoanalyze it.

Of course, since the Predator only stalked creatures who could defend themselves Picard would not have had to worry.

[Stone Mountain]

So did these patients actually die when they experienced hell? If so, were they brought back to life by the doctors? Is clinical death the same thing as death everlasting?

[Long Cut]

LOL! Too true. As a matter of fact, the Aliens vs. Predator project is supposedly still under development. If they can just get over their unholy fear of doing an Alien movie WITHOUT Sigourney Weaver, it'll get done. It seems that the suits in H'Wood think that it's HER, and not the CONCEPT, that makes the series so interesting. The fact that they're as hosed up as Hogan's Goat did NOT, however, stop her from getting $15 million to get slimed LAST time.

I'd love to see Data deal with THIS:

Especially after watching it get "born", preferably out of Wesley Crusher's or Deanna Troi's torso in full glory.

[Junior]

"Captain, it appears to be a silicon-based lifeform with a highly mutable genetic AAARGH!"

[Pahuanui]

Evolution the anatomy/history...Atheism-dehumanism---TYRANNY(pc-religion/rhetoric)...

Then came the SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/ZOMBIE/BRAVE-NWO1984 LIBERAL NEO-Soviet Darwin America---the post-modern age of switch-flip-spin-DEFORMITY-cancer...Atheist secular materialists through ATHEISM/evolution CHANGED-REMOVED the foundations...demolished the wall(separation of state/religion)--trampled the TRUTH-GOD...built a satanic temple/SWAMP-MALARIA/RELIGION(cult of darwin-marx-satan) over them---made these absolutes subordinate--relative and calling/CHANGING all the... residuals---technology/science === TO evolution via schlock/sMUCK IDEOLOGY/lies/bias...to substantiate/justify their efforts--claims...social engineering--PC--atheism...anti-God/Truth RELIGION(USSC monopoly)--and declared a crusade/WAR--JIHAD--INTOLERANCE/TYRANNY(breaking the establishment clause)...against God--man--society/SCIENCE!!

Lag time: approx. 5.5 seconds
Speed: unknown
Trajectory: SSE
Distance to endpoint (kilometers): unknown
Event duration: inconclusive
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[Long Cut]

Would a Vulcan-hosted Alien inherit some level of intelligence? It HAS, after all, been revealed that the Aliens retain some genetic makeup from whatever host the larva ("face hugger") utilizes.

This, BTW, also seems to be an EXCELLENT way for a species to both ensure reproduction AND genetic diversity.

[Condorman]

For the record, I am unable to post a full review of Alien:Resurrection on a family-oriented website. Suffice it to say that, even though Winnona Ryder died, the movie blew goats.

That said, the first 3 movies were a perfect trilogy.

I have also heard that there is an Alien vs. Predator script in existence. It needs some revision, but I think it is an excellent concept.

[f.Christian]

It's ugly...evolution is Truth aids---herpes!

[Junior]

CRUSHER: Tricorder scans indicate this one has Vulcan DNA.

RIKER: I would have thought the pointy ears would have given it away, doctor.

Honestly, though, the entire Star Trek franchise is set in a woosified universe. Even the Klingons seem a little squishy. Maybe it was lack of imagination on the part of the writers, lack of production funds or just plain lethargy on the part of the producers, but all the Star Trek shows except for TOS lacked a certain dimension -- I hate to use the word "spiritual" -- that kept it from being a first-rate show. Other science fiction and science fantasy shows managed to grasp that extra something: Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, the Star Wars franchise. Star Trek comes off as an antiseptic, unimaginative, shallow universe. There's not even the high drama/horror associated with the Alien/Predator movies. The last decent Star Trek movie was ST6, which, IIRC, was the last movie with the old cast. TNG and its contemporaries can't even attain that level of oomph.

[Junior]

There were space herpes in The Ice Pirates -- another SF tale that leaves Star Trek flat.

[Condorman]

And speaking of Alien, let's not forget to give credit to HR Giger for all his fine work.

[f.Christian]

There are no diseases/death...my ship/destiny is God---the Bible/Eternity!

[Long Cut]

You're right about them all, Man. Trek's lost it, probably permanently, and MOSTLY, IMHO, in their drive to be as PC as is humanly possible. Condor, I agree TOTALLY with you about the travesty known as "Alien:Resurrection". It was STILL a great series.

Hey, we can hope. Starfleet HQ is in San Francisco, is it not? Perhaps ANOTHER(of my favorite) SF stars will pay an unstoppable visit...

[Dinsdale]

The third alien was FAR FAR worse the resurection (almost as awfull as halloween III).

The first two are good.

'Plot complication on long range scanners captain.'

[Long Cut]

Yep. He created one of the true classic movie monsters, which SHOULD rank up there with Dracula and the Wolfman.

[Glutton]

I am a Trekker, and I find Star Trek has rolled into a mythology much like Robin Hood, King Author, and other vehicles that harness imagination and asperations with elements that make us what we are as a people.

I enjoy the new series a great deal, and do not have problems filtering out the Treknobabble from fact, and it has given me a better grasp on how big the universe is, not shrunk it down to TV set size.

I thinks this author worries too much about stuff that has no basis in fact. In spite of this, I hope he lives ling, and prospers. ;-)

[Long Cut]

As long as we're dreaming...why not Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator?

Set the whole thing onboard the Enterprise...

[f.Christian]

Good News For The Day

‘The truth will set you free.’ (John 8:32)

"God's dismissal in the 19th century, and the humiliation of truth in the 2oth, was supposed to set the world free."

"The experiment has been under way for some time now, and it is fair to ask, what are the... results---so far?"

"The Nazi experience in Germany provides a case study. There, a government and a society were organized on the principle of God's non-existence. Did liberation come to pass? On the wall of one of the death camps there is a plaque. It preserves the language of one of Hitler's speeches. The plaque overlooks large mounds of human hair, piles of personal effects; shoes, spectacles. The plaque reads: "I freed Germany from the degrading fallacy of conscience and morality. We will train people capable of violence-imperious, relentless, cruel. . ."

"Those sentiments were nurtured on the same continent that gave the world the reformation."

"Which was more liberating? If someone came today and said: "I am the truth," we would not take him seriously. But when Jesus says it, we are tempted to let him get away with it. If he is mad, it is a beautiful madness; such an attractive insanity. Let us not be ashamed to offer Christ to the world."

‘The truth will set you free.’ (John 8:32)

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Think a Predator could kick a Klingon's a$$?

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Check it out...

Gets the imagination going, doesn't it? The very ESSENCE of good Sci-Fi, if you ask me.