the first book, which also happens to be the weakest of the six.

Are you taking the piss or are there some people that actually think such a thing?

So you saw at least three of those episodes if you watched them all.

They must have come after the Janeway-Paris amphibian sex episode that rubbed in how outside of DS9 there is zero consistent continuity in Trek, at which point I gave up. The firing was reported a bit in the press as was her getting paid significantly less than other cast members. I recall a few trekkies getting very pissed off about it, however how much was Hollywood rumour and how much is real I do not know. The firing may not have been the result of asking for a raise, we'll probably never know it that rumour is true unless she decides she can live without convention gigs.

Consider the above posters posting record. I think in his view both transgressed against their leaders so seen as equivalent - King before Country.
So with that viewpoint Benedict Arnold is the patriot and Washington the traitor. Funny how someone can grow up like that in the USA isn't it, but there you go, it takes all kinds.

You clearly missed the: "But because SpaceX isn't Lockheed Martin or Boeing they can't get the same privilege."

Only a public lack due to secrecy. US intelligence was actually run with some competence in the 1950s before the plum posts were used as rewards for cronies.

Nice retcon to provide a story reason, but sadly the reality was when she had a lot of screen time but was still stuck on her initial pay, while the rest of the cast were not, and questioning that was enough to get her fired.
I never made it to "Boobs of Nine" and really can't see how it fit with the concept of the Borg at all - sounded like yet another wrecking ball taken to continuity.

Do tell then. I didn't even mention O'Hare's anecdotes about all the hairstyle meetings. There were some serious control freaks on board who outranked JMS, to the extent of firing Christian and Thompson when he had major story events planned for both their characters.

Sadly there's still a pile of stuff that won't run on Win7 or later, while the newest MS Office runs on XP, so more reasons against than for in some cases.
Also for some odd reason many users seem to hate mucking about with a VM - their nice seamless desktop paradigm gets broken by it or something, so some refuse to use it if there is an alternative. I've had to run an old version of AutoCAD (with the old interface the user likes) on WINE on a linux box and export it via X to the users Win7 box to make them happy - icon launch or nothing for that person and forget about a VM. The user already had X for some scientific software so it was doable.

If there was a way to launch the MS Windows application from an icon without presenting the user with an extra desktop that would make a difference. Trivial in X circa 1990 or later but for all the bleatings about revisions to remote desktop I just cannot see a way to get a remote or VM app exported from an MS system to act like a local application.

If it's so slow, why was it on the original Nintendo DS? Hardware has got a bit more capable since then.

VB pretty well was Pascal in one incarnation.

Despite the first Delta IV Heavy launch failure the DoD still chanced it

Looks like space has become a commodity in the eyes of some people. I suggest you take a look at the history of spaceflight to get some understanding of why you don't give up entirely at the first glitch. Giving up too early results in a lack of progress.
Also are you sure SpaceX needs a perfect flight every time to stay in the game?

or perhaps the secrecy of such observation allowed the US hawks to spin

See the "missile gap" for the most ridiculous amount of "spin". Whoever did not take the lie as real was seen as being too soft, and there was no venue for the truth even if someone in intelligence had done a Snowden.

More competition can be good but pretending you are inventing a new industry - not so good.

Also Claudia Christian wanted to know if she had a job for season 5 and was sacked for asking, Andrea Thompson was sacked for getting into a relationship with Jerry Doyle etc - HR really fucked with that show instead of letting the director direct.
The fifth season was apparently going to have Claudia Christian's character running the station but since she's been got rid of Tracey Scroggins was brought in to play a similar role, which despite a good effort didn't quite work as well IMHO.
See also the spinoff series for even more ridiculous amounts of executive interference.
Maybe the secret is to shoot in Canada or Australia so the executives don't have a clue what you are doing and so don't interfere as much.

I thought porn was for people who couldn't handle twin peaks. Oh, you mean the TV series! Carry on.
I started to rewatch a bit of X-Files but it hasn't aged well, and it drags out almost like LOST.