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There's a high school senior in my math class (taking concurrent enrollment) who in one semester has done more than any other teenager I've ever known to make me question whether I really have it in me to teach high school.

I keep telling myself they can't all be stupid, bigoted little pukes.

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I think it's pretty neat that even in 2003, we're still finding new species.

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I just realised . . . the older I get, the more willing I am to momentarily indulge in the occasional stereotypical "gay" behavior for comic effect.

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I want this for my birthday.

In the words of Marcus Cole: "If you're going to have delusions of grandeur, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones."

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Every time I see the WHO mentioned in the paper I think, not of the World Health Organization, but of the Weird Happenings Organisation.

WHO is the Marvel Comics version of Doctor Who's UNIT; led by Alysande Stuart, the Chief Scientific Advisor is her twin brother Alistaire.

If you don't get the jokes, you're not a geek. Rather, you might be a geek, but you're no Whovian.

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So.

Picard and Guinan both say in the third-season episode in which Q introduces the Enterprise to the Borg that without Q, it would have been a long time before the Federation knew about the Borg.

And yet . . .

. . . One hundred years BEFORE Picard, Kirk and friends rescue Guinan and a few more of her people -- who are fleeing the Borg.

. . . Seven of Nine's parents knew enough about the Borg that, 20-some years before "Voyager", they were chasing the Borg down -- even though the area of space the Borg are indigenous in is 70 years away from the Federation at Warp speeds. (Ok, they MIGHT have used Subspace conduits to follow the Borg home, but HEY! How'd they even know the Borg were there? They clearly state several times in Voyager that the Fed Council knew they were on this mission; how is it Enterprise never heard the intel on the Borg?)

. . . In the latest episode of Enterprise, there are live Borg left on Earth 100 years after the events of First Contact buried in the Arctic, and humans find them -- and the Borg wake up. Uhm, excuse me? If *I* was Picard, I would have made DAMNED sure I found all traces of the Borg that crashed on Earth and did whatever I had to to get that crap offworld before humans found it. But we're supposed to believe that Picard and his crew left LIVE (dormant, but live) BORG on a world not prepared to deal with them? Give unto me a fucking break.

And that hack Brannon Braga still has the brass cojones to say "We have the continuity airtight."

At this rate, the only way they can fix all this is a Time Travel-induced reset. And I hate those.

*sigh* And this guy's earning a living writing crappy Scifi. And I can't even get a story finished. Dammit.