Sorry, I meant venison steaks. Still, I'm eating a steak from a deer, and you're looking for a cow.

Gilmore Girls had a great first four seasons, then slowly died a horrible death for the next two, and then Dan Rosenthal really pulled the show out in the final season.

And Amy Sherman has gone on to make absolutely nothing good since.

I'm part of the core audience for the new Karate Kid AND a fan of Jackie Chan, and I couldn't tell aikido from ambo-jitsu.

I'm looking forward to being able to see a nice Blu rip of Avatar. I loved it every time (four times) in theaters, but I dunno how it'll hold up at home.

It's up now.

OH GOD. Didn't we all have this argument in first year art studies classes at college?

I feel that way about Star Trek.

Brian, nothing you said affected the point I've been making since the beginning, which is that it's crap to complain that Vulcan was blown up. It's crap to expect that a new Star Trek series wouldn't do some bold things with the continuity. It's crap to expect that we get another 'Star Trek: Insurrection' where nothing of any import happens anywhere near any of the planets we care about.

Yes, you can geek out and speculate as much as I can, but the storyline of Star Trek VI was HOLY CRAP KRONOS IS EFFED. Which was a bold departure from the position of strength the Klingon Empire was in before.

I don't think it's fair to say 'Oh, it was just the moon.' Praxis blew up, which caused the need for immediate evacuation from the home world of Kronos. This evacuation, assisted by the Federation, was what precipitated the Klingon Empire's joining of the Federation (although in some limited capacity, apparently).

They were relocated, as the 'Kronos' seen in TNG and DS9 looks quite different from the Kronos seen in Enterprise episodes such as the pilot.

And my point is, this was done MERELY to serve the plot of the movie. One could make all the same arguments about the destruction of Praxis and the evacuation of Kronos as you can the destruction of Vulcan (and the destruction of Romulus in the Prime timeline, by the by).

The destruction of Vulcan was not done merely to show that OMG ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, it was done to set the new timeline on a clearly different path than it was on before. As we've already seen, Amanda's death caused Sarek to tell Spock that he married Amanda because he LOVED her. Recall that in the Prime timeline, Spock believed that his parents did not love each other, which led him to not pursue any romantic entanglements (aside from Uhuru, whom we can assume he was supposed to be dating at the academy, and then broke up with before they were assigned to the Enterprise; and let's not talk about Saavik).

But aside from that, the destruction of Vulcan means that the timeline can't just slide back into following the previous timeline, but is going to lead into a radically new direction. I'd bet anything that the next Trek film is going to have to deal with Vulcan survivors.

So to classify it as 'for shits and giggles' is incredibly unfair to the writers.

Can't we also assume that McCoy gets extra credit for having, you know, already done medical school? Kirk's in some sort of AP program for getting high scores on his LSATs, and McCoy's in the 3-year medical program.

No, the eagles were stupid. Stupid with or without justification.