Take that, Johnny Lawrence!

I’ll take that.

First graders are about 50 lbs. Pre-K and Kindergarteners would work better for this. Too much weight and you’re going to lose power on the swing.

It could just be an audience problem. Teenagers have a whole lingo I am not privy to. Does that mean they are wrong? I probably know more words than the average teenager. Does that mean I’m using them wrong? A lack of knowledge from one party or both can lead to miscommunication. That doesn’t automatically mean someone is wrong. I used to use the term POS in the early days of my Internet use. It meant parent over shoulder so that my friends knew why if I was acting differently all of a sudden. My parents thought I was calling them a piece of shit or referencing point of sale. The former was just funny and the latter was a bit silly. They figured they were just missing something, but it didn’t mean they were using POS wrong. They just lacked the knowledge on one use for a different age group.

Other than them dropping plots that felt unfinished, yes. We really liked it.

I don’t know the number of people, but it’s not a huge city. My point wasn’t how many my city has, it was the distributed part that might be helpful. I’m not saying they need 10+ different places like my city, but 2-4 places might work out better for them–I don’t know.

My city also is not ready for battle with the Borg or prepared to take on alien pathogens. Their needs are clearly different.

I can’t say for certain because I haven’t fully explored the logistics, but here’s a point for consideration. In my city, they have 3 different hospitals (not associated with each other). In addition to that, there are about 10 standalone ERs, all of which are associated with one of the hospitals. They could build one giant ED within the hospitals, but they chose to distribute them.

Another consideration for them compared to us, they have transporters. So, if they needed something or someone in a particular place, they could arrange that. I don’t know if that’s more an argument for or against centralized medical care.

Have you seen Evil? I bet you’d enjoy those scenes.

Fuck. I’ve been using one with an M.D. No wonder it wasn’t working.

So, guillotine?

I don’t think it’s that impressive. He’d do anything to help himself. Most of the people around him would, too.

I’m assuming that was a legacy choice. It did look ridiculous in a late 80s backdrop, though. I’m also glad they changed it up.

Could be. If I was Jellico and you were Riker, I might have conceded to your point. Personally, I wouldn’t have changed to 4 groups anyway. I still say it doesn’t warrant Riker’s behavior. Two things in particular:

1. Not making a change directly ordered by your captain and instead waiting to see if he’d enforce it later. If the order was potentially bad for readiness, delaying only made that worse.
2. Sulking about it and making your captain jump through hoops to get your assistance.

Jellico might have had experience with making this change in similar timeframes with good success. I would guess it is his preference for a reason. Still not saying it’s the decision I would have made.

As a final note, many of us like Riker sometimes or are at least familiar with him. Before this episode, we don’t know Jellico and he comes off brash. That may be influencing our overall opinion of how the episode is perceived. We usually don’t like it when someone barks orders we disagree with and we have to follow them. I’ve never served, but my understanding is that’s a pretty common experience in the military. Riker’s behavior wouldn’t usually be tolerated in the military, especially in a crisis and especially from someone in a leadership role.

Yes, but this was a special circumstance. The crew knew what they signed up for. You can disagree with your captain, you can voice those disagreements, but in the end an order is an order. Riker was disrespectful. It was Riker and Troi’s duty to smooth the path with the crew. It was never meant to be long term. Riker could tell that whatever was going on was serious. So, get with the plan, Riker.

Plus, though he shouldn’t have had to do it, he swallowed his feelings about Riker to ask him to help for the good of the mission and the crew. Jellico is an ass, but an A+ captain.

Jellico was thrown into a really tough position. They knew this was a likely outcome. He still managed to get Picard out alive. Imagine how that might be hindered if your second in command was willfully disobedient, even in front of the crew.

If they ask in advance, you might be more likely to feed them by the specified time.

People in power are following the plans laid out by this group. So, it’s kind of important that we know what he’s saying so we know what to expect and fight against.

I agree that no one should be giving him or what he has to say attention, but under these circumstances, I think that would be dangerous.

I’ve been worried about security, and therefore haven’t even researched the options. I’d like to have one, but I don’t want people able to see what’s happening without me allowing it for specific footage. Only guaranteed way was to just not have any. I could do local only, but there is less utility with that. So, it wasn’t worth the effort and cost.

Gatherer, I’d say.

Depends on how much I drink. I have to get up in about 1 in 10 days. I usually take sips of water right as I get into bed and a couple more times throughout the night. So, maybe 6 oz at most. However, I sometimes need 6-12 at one time. So, I bring a fair amount with me.

Oh, I know it. But it’s old school Lego where the pieces were bigger. So, only the smallest countries ’ GDPs. Lego today, the average size of the piece is less. They seldom use the classic 2x4 in their builds now.