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Question 1. What's the collective term for adult sons and daughters? That 90-year old has eight great-grandchildren, 4 grandchildren, and two..... children? But the 'children' are 70 years old?
Question 2. We got through all of 2000-2009 without agreeing on a term for the decade. Are we in the twenty-teens?
Question 3. You're ordering for you and your partner at a restaurant. You say to the waiter... "and [blank] will have the salad". How do you refer to your partner? Your sexual/married relationship is none of the waiter's business. You can't say their name as they haven't been introduced to the waiter. My friend? My partner? She?
Question 1: They are always their children...my grandmother in law still refers to her mom as "mom" and sometimes takes a very mom voice to her adult children. It's still children, even though children can refer to younger humans. I suppose "offspring" is a more generic term that isn't age related.
I really enjoyed listening to the Trek discussion, despite having only seen Wrath of Khan. If there's a follow-up episode on TNG films, I'll try and give them all a watch so I can join in.
That might be a good idea to do the next 4 films before delving in to Abrams films. In either case, I'm up for the next Trek discussion
Last time we had a confirmed number of 3 people 2 hours before recording, and when we were about to start, we were 7. We split it to two sessions because of this. Not being in the same room means we talk in each others mouths a lot, and if there's more than 5, it gets very difficult to sort this out. I recommend you either split the teams up in several sessions, or make 100% sure you can make it. It is, after all, in 12 hours.
Well, I plan on being there and you all can tell me to sit in the corner and not touch anything if necessary
Everyone, I think the OP brought Zarban to tears...its ok, man, let it out, let it out.
In all seriousness, that was a great post, because I felt the same way for the longest time, and it is nice to have a new poster who expresses it in such a wonderful way.
I want in too. I'm grabbing a mic tonight and have my headphones at the ready. Also, I would, if I may be so bold, recommend doing them in chronological order and weighing their strengths and respective weaknesses, both solo and in the franchise as a whole.
Someone please clarify the time for me-I am terrible at this time zone thing. I thought it was 9 pm GMT? Am I right? So that's 1 PM West Coast USA?
Edit: Unless 5 panelists is too much for Faldor to work through, which I can agree is a lot of people to edit. I am more than happy to just listen too.
Anytime you have kids, there is going to be trouble...sorry, people have a tough time writing for kids because its hard to think like a kid when you are an adult. I haven't watched the episode, but if it involves kids in danger, I might have to pass. That's a bit of a weak point for me
It is definitely a book geared for harder science fiction fans because it does a lot of technical details, political maneuverings and histories of his world. It certainly uses different rules about space travel than Star Trek and so takes some time to build up the tech too.
I would say, for science fiction fans or military fiction fans, it is worth a read, maybe once or twice through. There are a lot of characters and interpersonal relationships play a bigger role than actual space combat. I think the best way to describe it is a combination of BSG 2004, Frank Herbert's Dune and Star Trek.
I think Gerrold is hoping for a second chance. The networks dropped the option for his scripts and so he turned them in to books. While I think his campaign needs more pizazz behind it, I do understand where Gerrold is coming from.
It's very depressing that everyone has to inject politics into one of the most fascinating books of my childhood.
FWIW, Speaker was better.
This I agree with. My friend said to read Ender's Game only because I wanted to write military sci-fi. I walked away from that book very confused and not impressed.