*milliseconds ticking* uuuuuhm, T'Pol perhaps?

Hmm. If you remove your curse words, you are actually saying . . . nothing.

I agree wholeheartedly with your insightful analysis. And, I also think that DS9 was THAT show that displayed the complexity of plot, character development and overall narrative richness that is the stuff of a good story. Why can't we have more of this kind of show and/or movie. Lin knows nothing about Trek, just as Abrams knew nothing before him. I'm forced to copy and paste my comment from below, which is lost below the pretty funny "helm" comments: My mind is weighed down by the senselessness of this decision [to choose Lin over Frakes]. Why ignore the director of Insurrection, First Contact and directing credits of Voyager, DS9 and TNG? KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

My mind is weighed down by the senselessness of this decision. Why ignore the director of Insurrection, First Contact and directing credits of Voyager, DS9 and TNG? KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Indeed! Bob Dylan's refrain "How does it feel?" pops into my mind for some reason ...

They haven't cracked AES 256-bit keys yet. There are still still 2048 and 4096-bit RSA keys to be "examined" by the NSA.

You can use VPN on your iPhone (and home n/w) to stop surveillance .

Am I missing something really obvious? Why would you even try something like DuckDuckgo? It's only "remedy" for privacy is it's policy of not tracking users. Serious considerations for privacy would impel one to consider an anonymizing network layer such as I2P. Or if you really want relatively foolproof privacy, get a VPN connection, install VPN network monitoring software and configure your DNS settings manually.

It's possible. Also likely that Benedict XIV was shown to be too dovish about going after the predator-priests. Cardinal Law of Boston was given a prominent place in the Vatican hierarchy after he hushed allegations of sexual abuse in his archdiocese (and shuttled the priest to another parish to protect him). The Vatican hierarchy acts no differently than any other politicians abusing authority and hiding their mistakes.

Hmmm, Perhaps we need to review our code on this one. DS:9 has the most complex character development, plot and action sequences of any Star Trek series? Why is this so rarely acknowledged? And Benjamin Sisko's character is every bit as forceful and commanding as Picard ever was. Go DS:9! *sound of virtual coin clinking sound in voting booth*

You mean the real "Khan", not the Cumberbatch Khan-pretender, right? Montalban defined the character for eternity.

It is agreeable to see such logical analysis of the current commercialization by J.J. Abrams of the ethos, characters, lore, beliefs and world community that is Star Trek. You may find this review on Forbes to be very much in agreement with your analysis: http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelvenables/2013/05/17/star-trek-into-darkness-alternate-vision-of-mediocrity/ Live long and prosper.

oh . . . you mean pr0N!