James Holmes asks us to crowdsource a name for China's "it's new to you" aircraft carrier, having correctly noted that "ex-Varyag" is getting old: Our friends in Beijing are evidently having a hard time settling on a name, though. Shi Lang, for a long-ago conqueror of...
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PTJ:And: what will be the Khan-equivalent in this re-imagined Star Trek -- the moment that makes the optimistic humanitarians confront the consequences of their attempts to be merciful?Why not... meeting.
I'm trying to reserve judgment, but there's a fundamental conflict that I just can't get around with regards to the latest Star Trek. William Shatner's James T. Kirk is one.
I can't find a news report about it yet, but the buzz is that Gary Gygax, founder of Dungeons and Dragons, passed away this morning. I played my first game of D&D at the age of eight with the basic rule set, and in the...