Nope sorry, because you are ignoring the fact that he made one of the most blatant cardinal sins of any bad guy which is lampooned even today, so sure by his time he would have actually read a book or seen a film and known that was a bad idea, which was you NEVER assume your plan is gonna work so you at the very least have a backup plan.

I mean we are talking about the complete wiping out of his home planet and everyone he has ever loved for piss sake, you do NOT leave that much up to chance! I mean you go ask anybody who hasn't seen the movie what they would do and they will ALWAYS give you the same answer "Warn everybody", when every person comes up with the same obvious answer and your bad guy doesn't do that with ZERO explanation? I'm sorry but that is a plothole you can drive a truck through, right up there with Picard going back in time 3 minutes when if he would have went back 2 weeks he would have saved his family, the research station AND got the bad guy.

the only way for that plot to work would be if the guy is completely batshit or a drooling moron and he never struck me as either of those so I'm gonna chalk it up to shitty writing. Lets face it most time travel in ST has been piss poor at best, but this is "I have no time to explain!" while setting in a time machine level of stupid in my book.

I don't know if you are joking or not, if not it was established several times that one of the reasons the federation didn't trade tech was that "That replicator that can give you food can just as easily give you a gun" so once they had the template (which again was stated was in their database which was how the Vulcan made it) they could have cranked that thing out like flapjacks.

So this isn't even an "it would be immoral" like using Saron's sun exploder tech that Picard found to take out the home system of the enemy, this is a gun that would give your troops a HUGE advantage against an enemy that is bred in tanks to be disposable (and thus you should feel no guilt in wasting, as they are programmed to obey their "gods" and can't be reasoned with) so the only reason NOT to use this tech would be the leaders are retards.

This of course isn't even getting into the fact that the federation knew how to use time travel which meant that when it looked like they were gonna lose the war all it would have took is sending back a single ship to before the Dominion ever came through and closing the wormhole. Any way you slice it the federation comes off being like Chuck at SFDebris described the republic in the prequels "who deserve to lose because its just run all stupid".

Thank you. this is why I refuse to watch ANYTHING by Bay or Abrams in theaters, because at least when I play it on a PC I can use the player to tone down the bright flashing bullshit so I don't end the evening with a skull thumper from hell. My Ex GF used to complain about that so i said "Fine, Transformers 2 is playing at the theater, lets go" and sure enough after walking out she said "Okay I get it, now my eyes hurt and my ears are ringing"

This is coming from somebody who LOOOVVVVVEEESSS Action and Sci-Fi, hell I went to see the original Predator and First Blood like half a dozen times each just so I could enjoy the big screen, but Abrams and Bay are like being assaulted by the movie, Abrams with a billion damned flashing lights and lens flares and Bay with blasting sound effects and jump cuts making shit look like it was shot by an epileptic. I'm sorry but that is not pleasant and NOT what Star Trek was about, watch Wrath or Undiscovered again and see what the difference a decent director makes.

Well considering that in the Bill & Ted "perfect future" they had a council with time travel i always figured they would just stick someone which had broken the law someplace in the past where he couldn't do any harm, after all if you dropped him on an uninhabited island 200k plus years ago with nothing but the clothes on his back all evidence that he ever existed would be gone by the time anybody inhabited that island and it didn't matter how much future knowledge he had if he was dropped so far back he had no way of building any kind of warning that would survive that long.

But at the end the point I was trying to make was that Bill and Ted was a COMEDY and even THEY got it more right than these guys writing what we are supposed to take as a serious story? I'm sorry but suspension of disbelief only goes so far, especially if what you are doing not only defies the rules you have already established for your universe but simple common sense as well. I'd put this one on the "Hirogen making Voyager a giant holodeck even though size has never been an issue on holodecks" level of dumb because even 5 seconds worth of thought would have caused the plothole to bitchslap you in the face.

Actually when my oldest went to college i saw where that is heading, and its online. Damned near every kid there was playing online games, from your girls playing second life to guys having giant TF2 fragfests its ALL online. Add this to the fact that pretty much any $400 AMD laptop can play most online games just fine and its not hard to have everybody in the same room playing,hell the dorm rooms and break rooms were filled with kids playing together online.

I don't see why two factor authentication isn't standard across the web, what with flash chips being so cheap. i mean if i can get a 16GB USB drive that is so thin and small it fits in the card holder of my wallet why we can't have something similar that works with any website? And public/private keys are frankly more complex than most users could handle, at least from the ones I've looked at.

As for TFA you just hit the nail on the head when you mentioned FB because what I'm seeing is more and more people that let FB handle it and if there isn't a FB option they pass. Should we consider this good or bad? On the one hand FB knows too damned much about people as it is but on the other hand at least they aren't reusing passwords constantly

I don't think so and here is why: When the Wii was released a tablet that could play games cost $500+ and a phone that could play games if you could even find one would have cost a grand, now you get $99 tablets that comes with Angry Birds and a $150 phone can likewise play most if not all the games Android has to offer.

What has screwed Nintendo is that frankly other than a handful of titles there was nothing but crap on the Wii, in fact I know a lot of people who bought the Wii and every single one is rotting in a closet, and after getting burnt buying the Wii only to find a handful of good games and an assload of shovelware most folks aren't gonna take the chance. I mean why should they when that tablet or phone which they wanted for other tasks can play games as well?

So what is wrong with Valve? From what I understand it looks to open consoles up the way competition opened up the PC in that they will come up with the OS and minimum specs but any company that wants to add to that or make it better is welcome to. If someone wants to make a portable? Go right ahead, if somebody wants to make one twice as powerful? That is fine too as the baseline is gonna be just that, a baseline, so you can choose the model and price point that bests fits your needs.

But I don't blame you for hating MSFT on the console as while I think Win 7 is a truly great OS the fact that they charge for MP on X360 is just fucked up IMHO, if you buy a game you shouldn't have to pay a second time just to use a major feature of the game you had already paid for. No need for you to get screwed by Nintendo though, if Valve can even do half as good with their console as they had on the PC it should be a damned nice system.

Yeah I have to say I USED to like Pegg until I read that and what I would have to say to him is thus...if 99 out of a 100 people say you smell like dogshit? Then maybe you should take a fucking bath. When 99 out of a 100 people are going "What the fuck is with all these damned lens flares, its distracting and annoying"? Then maybe your ass might ought to tone that shit down just to be on the safe side.

But of course that is ignoring the dirty truth which is that Abrams and Bay really don't give a flying fuck WHAT the audience thinks as long as they can get enough "sheeple" to buy the shit, the are the ultimate corporate creation, movies by focus groups. As I said at least when people pointed out how much they fucking HATE Jar Jar Lucas put his ass on a bus, when you complain to either Bay or Abrams you can bet your last dollar they'll do whatever you hated twice as much just to flip you the bird.

To me that is the worst part, its all cynical market driven product placement "processed movie product" designed NOT because somebody wanted to tell a good story, had some interesting characters, hell even had just a cool idea they wanted to see on the screen, nope this is all just designed by and for marketing and I have a feeling that in 20 years these films will be looked at as trashy garbage like the serials of the 40s or the cheap sci-fi designed to cash in on Star Wars in the 70s. Just because they have a big budget doesn't make it any good and I honestly don't think either director gives a shit about whether its good or not, its all about how much money they can make on the merchandising.

Oh watch me go off like a mushroom cloud superfly TNT on THAT one, that is one of my biggest WHAT THE FUCK??? moments in the entire history of Star Trek!

In ST:DS9 they said that the gun the Vulcan that snapped and was killing people on the station was using was "one of the last slug throwers" and was old tech...now wait just a fucking minute. You have a gun that lets you 1.- See through walls several layers deep, no matter what the make of the material, 2.- Give you perfect targeting through those walls, and 3.- Allows you to transport a bullet through any object and hit your target perfectly every time...and you are IN A WAR YOU ARE LOSING and you don't fucking use this gun? WHAT THE HOLY FUCK!!!

That is when I had to stop watching because it was pissing me off too much, every single Dominion war death could be blamed on leadership too fucking STUPID to hand out a weapon that could easily help them win the war...morons, the entire federation is made up of morons.

Again its a story so I'll buy your bullshit as long as its consistent bullshit. Yes we all know the ONLY way to actually go backwards would be to calculate the EXACT point in time and space that you are trying to hit, which frankly would make the flying time machine in BTTF II more believable as it would be easier to give or take a thousand feet in the air than to figure up the exact point to have the tires perfectly meet the road, but again its a story so okay, I'll let that slide.

What I WILL NOT LET SLIDE and what nobody else should either is when their time travel also refuses to fucking acknowledge the power that they have just been given and thus making the time traveler be the biggest dumbass in the universe. I mean in Star Trek generations HOW many times could he have had Sauron without risking anybody AND saving his family? yet he chooses to go back 3 fucking minutes? Or a time ship in Voyager that travels all the way back to the 23rd century from the 29th but the pilot actually says "no time to explain"...WHAT THE FUCK?????

Even Bill and fucking Ted knew that time travel gave you a hell of an advantage but we are supposed to buy that somebody that has the ability to go back in time is too God damned stupid to understand that concept? Really? For the love of God you have ALL OF TIME, from the beginning to the end, so fixing something like his planet exploding? trivial, he has tons of time to warn his race, get his family off the planet, hell they got fricking warp drives and his knowledge of how the next 30 years are supposed to play out, they would be building statues in his honor on Romulus II and that would be the end of it.

With suspension of disbelief there ARE limits, sure I'll believe a world where there are vampires, or where aliens live among us, hell you can spin just about any tale as long as you are consistent in universe. But when you are trying to sell us that 1.- Someone has gone back in time and 2.- he blames somebody for something that hasn't even happened yet and which HE CAN PREVENT thanks to his having knowledge of future events? yeah i gotta throw the red flag and call bullshit on the field, sorry.

You are kidding right? he had a fricking TIME MACHINE and he doesn't go to warn everybody, maybe give them plenty of time to move, nope he goes to blow up the federation? That is as stupid as the time ship that attacked Voyager saying "there is no time to explain" or Picard going back to 3 minutes before he got his ass handed to him in ST:Generations instead of just grabbing Sauron on the bridge and saying his family from the fire../facepalm/

There should be a law that if you are gonna do a time travel story you have to show you understand the concept and realize that you have just given a character a giant reset button. I mean how sad is it when the last movie i saw that realized this was Back To The Future, where Marty goes "Duh, I'm in a time machine!" and goes back before he left to save Doc. If you have a functional time machine? Its pretty damned hard to lose. And don't give me that alternate dimension crap but if that is the case then it should be the case for every other time they have used it, but its not. I have to agree with Chuck at SFDebris in that "I'll buy your bullshit, time travel, clones, alien invaders, just be consistent with your bullshit".

That is because both Abrams and Bay can't seem to write any character but differing levels of douchebag and for the love of God will somebody PLEASE make him stop with the damned lens flares? I don't know which is worse, Abrams making everything bright and throwing lens flares in all over the place or bay's ultra fast cuts but they are both annoying as hell to set through.

At the end of the day though lets face it, its all about marketing. you'll never see a film "Wrath of Khan" quality from either director because its not about telling a good story, or making a great movie, its about turning out a product that can be slapped on everything from t-shirts to mouse pads and selling the hell out of that. While this can work the movie has to come first but if the second one is anything like the first the whole thing felt like an excuse to get scenes that would work in the trailers.

And maybe its just me but do these movies have this undercurrent of cynicism to anybody else? I watch films by Abrams and Bay and get this "Meh, it'll be good enough for the sheeple" feeling when I watch them, it just feels to me that its done with the absolute minimum of effort required to make a marketable product, like filming by focus group.

I have to agree, the ship looked like a hipster coffee bar and the movie could have been subtitled "lens flare" thanks to how damned much he used that stupid ass effect.

Abrams and Bay are frankly the two worst directors I think we have today, both are cynical as fuck and care about the marketing more than the films they make but have learned how to appeal to that lowest common denominator to make the big bucks. God I dread seeing what he is gonna do to Star Wars, I want to say he can't be worse than prequel Lucas but then I look at that bridge and how every 5 minutes there is a lens flare...ugh.

Functioning fairly well? Compared to what, WWII? The EU has several countries about to go under, everyone is just waiting for Germany to say fuck it and pull out for the whole thing to collapse, and the USA has had 98% of the value of the dollar burned away by having the printing press cranking 24/7 and if it wasn't for the USA making damned sure the petrodollar stays the money would be worth less than Zimbabwe.

Go look up the real numbers, not the song and dance the government feeds you, and you'll see the whole thing is a fucking trainwreck.