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Subject: Re: How long have you been doing this?

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The Divine Shadow

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Date Posted: 03:30:08 10/17/02 Thu
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In reply to: capn hayes 's message, "Re: How long have you been doing this?" on 23:14:48 10/16/02 Wed

>Well I didn't get into the debate thing until this
>website. Which is probably why I suck at it. But I
>have been a Sci-Fi fan since Star Wars back in 1977. I
>especialy love Star Trek TNG, and now ENTERPRISE. All
>of the feature films and yeah Star Wars, Duh! I am
>fond of all Sci-Fi though, but never put that much
>thought into which one was better. I generaly assumed
>them to be about the same. Except the Empire and other
>Star Wars guys had way bigger ships. Which lead to the
>conclusion bigger equals more power. A way of thinking
>that normaly works for most situations. When crack on
>Star Trek it is only because after watching the show
>and watching behind the scenes extras through the
>years I firmly believe that all in all technology wise
>they are both about the same. They are both about the
>characters anyway. But anyway yeah if we take this
>crap to seriously we do need to seek outside help! It
>is really fun seeing everyone elses opinions. It was
>kind of shocking to find people that actually thought
>Star Trek would stand any chance at all of standing up
>to Star Wars in a war, little own defeat them in
>one!!! Wow I have been watching this stuff for so long
>those answers came to me along time ago with ease.
>Although the one anoying thing about Star Trek has
>always been the inconsistensies and misleading dialog
>of the writers that was a big problem on [VGR]. I have
>also noticed this to be a big problem for debates as
>well. In fact there is a whole section devoted to that
>very problem. Which makes and sort of debate a
>problem. Simply because most of you guys are smarter
>than the writers, and catch their mistakes. Also a few
>naive fans which are confused be those mistakes. Any
>universe which pumps out 30 years of TM's and TV shows
>and 10 movies is bound to screw up a few times. I just
>don't think we should become stuck in the same mire
>that holds Star Trek together. Thank God Star Wars
>doesn't have this problem. believe me I do like them
>both. I only wish Star Trek had the technical
>consistency of most other Sci-Fi shows like Andromeda,
>Earth Final Conflict, and Babylon 5, to name a few
>that got it right, besides Star Wars. Sci-Fi is a
>great escape.

I personally think that you are good debater, and on the tight side ;)

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Re: How long have you been doing this?	warspite	13:51:01 10/17/02 Thu
Re: How long have you been doing this? -- TrekGOD, 15:47:43 10/17/02 Thu Re: How long have you been doing this? -- capn hayes, 05:03:32 10/19/02 Sat Re: How long have you been doing this? -- Warspite, 14:37:41 10/19/02 Sat Re: How long have you been doing this? -- capn hayes, 21:05:57 10/19/02 Sat Re: How long have you been doing this? -- Warspite, 11:51:32 10/21/02 Mon Re: How long have you been doing this? -- Warspite, 14:18:06 10/19/02 Sat