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[paladin]

Yeah, just fill the damn place with regeneration spa's... and if they're concerned about their small-town folksy lifestile, just make them all in orbital stations and leave the planet alone.

Or nuke them from orbit, but hey, I guess your solution could work too.
It's just not as quick or fun as mine

I'd prefer sending troops in to personally club each and every one of those bigotted little hippies until their brains were mush.. don't underestimate the personal touch.

Ah yes, when you care enough to send your best. Definitely a Hallmark moment.

[Raoul Duke, Jr.]

Of course! I see it now! The planet only heals NATURAL defects, not INJURIES!

Plus, Picard's heart was completely physically absent. But then again, so were Geordi's original (real) eyes, presumably, having been ripped out and had artificial ones stuffed in their sockets. So that still\ doesn't solve that problem. Back to square one. And we haven't even gotten into the hair problem, have we?

Brainless & Boneless: what happens when chimps are left alone with keyboards.

[Kuja]

Plus, Picard's heart was completely physically absent. But then again, so were Geordi's original (real) eyes, presumably, having been ripped out and had artificial ones stuffed in their sockets. So that still\ doesn't solve that problem. Back to square one. And we haven't even gotten into the hair problem, have we?

Geordi was BORN blind. He's NEVER had normal vision.

[Raoul Duke, Jr.]

Plus, Picard's heart was completely physically absent. But then again, so were Geordi's original (real) eyes, presumably, having been ripped out and had artificial ones stuffed in their sockets. So that still\ doesn't solve that problem. Back to square one. And we haven't even gotten into the hair problem, have we?

Geordi was BORN blind. He's NEVER had normal vision.

Right, but even though he had deformed eyes, he had eyeballs. (Remember when he would take off his VISOR and you got to glimpse those creepy pupil-less peepers? Those obviously got ripped out to make room for the artificial ones; either that or (more creepy) they somehow emptied out his sclera and stuffed all those electronics inside his natural eyeballs. *shudder* Iiiiicky!

[THEHOOLIGANJEDI]

Plus, Picard's heart was completely physically absent. But then again, so were Geordi's original (real) eyes, presumably, having been ripped out and had artificial ones stuffed in their sockets. So that still\ doesn't solve that problem. Back to square one. And we haven't even gotten into the hair problem, have we?

Geordi was BORN blind. He's NEVER had normal vision.

Right, but even though he had deformed eyes, he had eyeballs. (Remember when he would take off his VISOR and you got to glimpse those creepy pupil-less peepers? Those obviously got ripped out to make room for the artificial ones; either that or (more creepy) they somehow emptied out his sclera and stuffed all those electronics inside his natural eyeballs. *shudder* Iiiiicky!

I think that's what they really did.

[Silver Jedi]

So what happened to all those electronics when his eyes started to grow back ?

[Raoul Duke, Jr.]

Game Boy

[Kuja]

Or they work like contacts and were simply placed on his eyes. *shrug*

[Setesh]

Unless my mind (with its anti-stupidity shields at maximum) wandered off of some tiny point of detail in the movie, it struck me that the entire plot was pointless. As I recall, the Enterprise crew began to experience tissue regeneration and age-reversal effects from distant orbit of the Bak'u homeworld. Which means that the effect of the metaphasic radiation (or whatever the hell technobabble term Braga invented for this goofy film) wasn't confined to the immediate area of the Bak'u's Napa Valley themepark village. This means that the healing effects could be experienced anywhere on the planet, or at least along the regions beneath the ring system where the radiations were apparently strongest, or even within orbital proximity of the planet.

So what was the problem? Couldn't the Son'a have simply settled some other part of the planet? Couldn't Federationists seeking cures for their ills simply visit other parts of the Bak'u homeworld to receive the benefits of the Cosmic Tanning Lamp? It struck me that there was no real reason for the Bak'u to have to be displaced at all. And if that is the case, then there was no point to the whole damn movie.

I left the theatre just shaking my head with disappointement, because plot elements didn't connect up with one another and nothing made any fucking sense whatsoever. Waste of celluoid from start to finish.

And with those "dress uniforms" for the movie, there were points where I kept expecting Capt. Picard to appear at a table and calmly announce "Hello, I'm Jean-Luc and I'll be your maitre'd tonight."

Yeah, just fill the damn place with regeneration spa's... and if they're concerned about their small-town folksy lifestile, just make them all in orbital stations and leave the planet alone.

BTW I never seem to watch the beginning of the movie, Geordi's eyes grew back? How lame... I thought the fake eyes in FC were uber-cool, more than his hair-rake-turned-visor... Were these people non-human? Or just human colonizers that found the fountain of youth?

Apparently most of the Son'a were to far gone for that, they would be dead before the 'natural' regenerative effects worked on them. (though why they didn't go back and hang out in orbit every couple of years is beyond me)

[Evil Jerk]

What I want to know why did the Son'a leave to degenerate that badly in the first place!
They have big ships, guns and slave races.
The Bak'u have.. er.. um.. HOW THE HELL DID THEY KICK THEM OUT??

[Raoul Duke, Jr.]

What I want to know why did the Son'a leave to degenerate that badly in the first place!
They have big ships, guns and slave races.
The Bak'u have.. er.. um.. HOW THE HELL DID THEY KICK THEM OUT??

I don't think the Ba'ku kicked them out -- I think the Son'a were kind of going through a "rebellious teenager" phase and bailed on their parents. Although why they didn't just find another part of the fucking planet to live on is truly baffling. Except, of course, that if they had, there wouldn't have been any story. Oh, wait -- it still wasn't much of a story, was it?

[His Divine Shadow]

Offtopic, Setesh, where did you get that sig and what is it about?

[Setesh]

Stormwatch:Team Achilles
Comic set in the wildstorm universe.
(since I don't know how much you know I'll give the whole set up)

The wild storm universe is a really fucked up version of the DC universe, all the classic DC heroes are retired due to the shear number of SPB's (SuperPoweredBeings) There are 4 types of SPB's:

1:seedlings, comet flys past earth randomly altering people into SPB's
2:Aliens and Alien/human Hybrids (WildCats is a Wildstorm comic)
3:Human made (cybernetics and genetic engineering
4:Evolutionary adaption to the existance of the first 3

Stormwatch was originally created to police the SPB's under the auspises of the U.N., there were SPB's on the team, unfortunatly it was a disaster. A group originally affiliated with Stormwatch: The Authority, struck off on its own, they don't like the US for some rather vague reasons, they left stormwatch because the real power of stormwatch was 6 Trillionares who paid for everything, The Authority set itself up as a world power and tried to enforce the 'national soverienty' of several third world countries. It was a disaster 6 superfreaks can't run the world no matter how good they think they are.

Anyway Stormwatch pretty much fell apart when they had a run in with everyones favorite killing machines: The Xenomorphs, and Ripley won't be born for 213 years. Unfortunatly Genetically altered SPB's make Aliens with the powers of the host, the Weatherman(stormwatch leader) at the time sent the Stormwatch orbital platform into the sun with its new crew of Xenomorphs. Stormwatch was effectivly dead. Then Colonel Ben Santini formaly of the Blackrazors (powersuit troops who fought SPB's) got the UN to recreate Stormwatch with him as Weatherman, his team is small and only has a single SPB Brakan, a telepath who only works in the office, everyone else is human, but are the baddest, nastiest, most twisted special ops guys in the world. Oh and Santini killed the 6 trillionare twits when they tried for control of his team.

The conversation is Beetween Ben Santini, Jukko one of his more twisted members, Hawksmoor leader of The Authority and Midnighter long time Authority member. Stormwatch was attacked by SPB terrorists, they caught one and found out his boss was hold up in Chechnya, which is under the Authorities 'protection', the meeting is basically a 'bring me his head or we go after him speach, Midnighter threatens Santini, Jukko threatens Midnighter, my sig inserts here

Midnighter is a basically a cyberenhanced version of Batman, he is stronger and faster than any human has a right to be, he also has a combat computer in his brain that predicts his opponents moves. He also wears a mask and a lot of leather.

In 'Authorities End' which takes place at some future point compared to Stormwatch, Jukko kills Midnighter, he ambuses him outside the men's room, Mid takes a piss, zips up, opens the door and gets a face full of armor peircing rounds.