Lord_Nightblade

Life sustaining? Nah. They want our women!

Saw the trailer. Want now.

I'd go by what Memory Alpha says, given that the Trekkies who put it together are anal and only go by stuff that appeared in movies/episodes.

There's been some conjecture regarding what happens to Vulcans who aren't bonded with anyone, but as far as I know it's only been in novels. I remember one (I think it was in the Corps of Engineers novellas) where someone was talking to a gay Vulcan, who said he wasn't bonded with anyone and therefore didn't go through pon farr. It's an interesting idea (and I hope this doesn't start anything, but so is the idea of homosexuality in a culture so bound by logic) but it's not something that's officially part of Trek's loose canon.

edit: The gay Vulcan was in one of the New Frontier books, the brother of Dr. Selar.

The various Treks never went into much detail about the Vulcan sexual imperative. They have to have intimate relations every seven years, but it's never been said that they never do the horizontal monster mash while they're waiting out the seven year itch.

edit: And I would assume that in the crisis situation Vulcans were in at the end of JJTrek, they would start procreating as quickly as physically possible to ensure the survival of their species. And with Spock's accomplishments, they may be more receptive to mating with other species.

I think it was a stupid part of the plot of JJTrek, too (one of many). I was merely attempting to correct someone who did not do the research before he started trying to make sense of conclusions based on faulty information.

Yeah, but...


The thingy was...

I don't remember the first part, but it's been a while since I last watched JJTrek. And there are a lot of continuity errors like that (I blame Enterprise. For everything. Including JJTrek. And Final Frontier), which makes it hard to keep up.

And ok, so planetary evacuations aren't that common an occurrence. Still, it seems to me that someone should've been paying enough attention to sound an alert after Nero destroyed the fleet sent to investigate. The planet must have some sort of sensor array that directs orbital traffic, which means that whoever was manning it would've known that the ships sent to investigate were turned into a brand new orbital debris field. Now I don't know about you all, but if I were on duty when the planet started shaking and a bunch of Starfleet ships-of-the-line were suddenly destroyed, I'd be telling people to evacuate on whatever ships were in orbit/planet side. At the very least I would start preparations for evacuation, so that if the call came it would go a lot faster and more people would make it off the planet.

Yes, I know. Which is why I brought up the whole point of there being species very similar to Vulcans, but they're not Vulcans. You're saying the same thing I said, only differently.

No. Romulans descended from Vulcans who didn't like Surak's ideas of logic and emotional control. They left Vulcan in pre-warp capable ships. They were never part of any interstellar Vulcan empire. In their time away from Vulcans, the Romulans became physiologically different enough from Vulcans to be considered a seperate species, despite the similarities they still shared. Therefore, they do not count as Vulcans.

Additionally, in the TOS era, even in the JJ continuity, no one in the Federation had ever seen a Romulan. They didn't know that Romulans and Vulcans were related. So, even if they did count as part of the Vulcan population, which they don't, no one would have known about it anyway.

Vulcan did have an aggressive colonization period, although it was never specified whether it was in space or whether it was a Vulcan version of Earth's colonial period. It was pre-Surak. But then it tore itself apart in a blaze of atomic warfare. After that, it took Vulcans 1,500 years to rebuild their society and become space-faring once again. By the time of Enterprise, they'd been in space for about 300 years. They were much less aggressive, and it is reasonable to assume that there was little desire for off-world colonization.

There are a number of species similar to Vulcans, yes. But they're not Vulcans. Just like there are a lot of species that look identical to humans but are not humans.

Spock was the first Vulcan to serve in Starfleet. Prior to him, Vulcans believed Starfleet was far too militaristic. It was Spock's service that finally brought Vulcans into the fleet. So at the time of Vulcan's destruction, there was a grand total of one Vulcan in the fleet. Or, rather, half-Vulcan.

And beyond all of those points, you're missing an even bigger question than why there are only 10,000 Vulcans left. Namely, in the hours it took for Nero to drill into Vulcan, why were they only able to evacuate around 10,000 people from Vulcan? Ok, so Nero warps in and starts doing **** to Vulcan. Distress signal goes out. Starfleet warps in and dies. Maaaybe that should've been an indication that people should GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE BEFORE SOMETHING REALLY REALLY BAD HAPPENS!!! And it's not like they wouldn't have any ships. There would've been interplanetary shuttles, cargo ships, the Vulcan Science Academy's own fleet. They had options. Instead, they sat around with their thumbs up their ***** while a big scary ship sits in orbit, kicks the **** out of a small fleet, and drills into the center of the planet. Seriously, how many signs did they need before they realized that something bad was going to happen?

Seriously? Wow. Way to be classy, SyFy.

I think there are the Christmas specials the movies that mark the transition period between Tennant and Smith.

If I recall, the movies should go Planet of the Dead, Waters of Mars, and End of Time (I can't remember if The Next Doctor was part of that transition group or a Christmas special).

As for the Christmas specials, they should be in the proper order on the DVDs. If you're streaming them online, the specials are usually separated from the rest of a season, but the place where they're supposed to be is fairly obvious. Unfortunately, not all of these specials are available for streaming from Netflix

Calgon?

Theodore Roosevelt doesn't have conversations. He has verbal delaying actions while he scans you for weaknesses.

A-bombs are for cheap suit salesmen and artilelry officers. TR could've nuked Hiroshima with his FISTS!

It's the sign that he's a hair's breadth from kicking your sorry a** to Havana and back. Be afraid!

I'm not sure if it can be auto-completed or not. She didn't have too much trouble with Recluse, due to a combination of Demonic Aura, Mind Link, Elude, and a whole bunch of Good/Phenominal Luck inspirations (which is similar to how my db/elec brute tackled Recluse). So based on that I figured she'd have no problem with States either. Boy was I wrong.

I suppose I could get help to complete the mission, but I like the idea of my Widow being so bad-a** that she can take on Recluse and States single handed and win.

edit: I'd also like to note that I run with, at most, common IOs. Maybe (probably) a Widow with the right sets wouldn't have any problems.

Theodore Roosevelt would take issue with that attitude. Behold his mighty gaze and tremble!

I've run into a similar problem with the final mission of the VEAT mission chain where you have to take down Statesman. My Night Widow didn't pick up the mission until she was level 50, and every time I've tried it I just haven't been able to do enough damage to knock out States. Either he KOs me or I run out of end.

Preferring one style of Holmes over another is fine, but what got me were all the complaints about Holmes knowing how to fight and carrying a gun. Some people acted as though it was sacrilege, despite the fact that Holmes in the novels is an amateur boxer and carried a revolver with him on a regular basis.