ok ok i did read it, so here's a few unfairly simplistic responses
Yeah why would I waste my time with a classic sci fi series that can withstand the test of time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zKDQfVbWqcWho but a teenager, after all, could watch an EarthGov representative, who has just negotiated a non-aggression treaty with the patently evil Centauri, blissfully announce that "we will finally have peace in our time" without rolling their eyes? Who else would put up with entire paragraphs from 1984 being turned into dialogue for Night Watch representatives?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saddam_rumsfeld.jpghttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoutOutChurchill was forced to choose between the certain death of thousands of his citizens if he didn't order the evacuation and the possible subjugation of his entire country if the Germans changed their codes and the Allies lost the war. Sheridan is forced to choose between personal vengeance and the fate of the entire galaxy. Neither decision is easy, but only Sheridan's has an obvious right choice.
so sacrificing 1 city with thousands of people to save a country with millions of people is not the obvious choice. let's leave aside for the moment the various other countries that would have likely been lost to the 3rd reich after the american forces lost their strategically important staging area. which would have likley taken them out of the war for western europe and allowed the nazi regime to focus all of their energies on the eastern front. and let's also leave asside whether or not this would have allowed them to conquer russia, that's a tossup. generally the only folk tough enough to live in russia are the russians. those mother:palm:ers can survive anything.
anyway, leaving all that asside let me try to help you, since math is apparently not your strongest subject;
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Hey Zeek do you feel like Mario cause you just got one upped.
that type of joke is only funny when someone else tells it. it has to be an independent third party congratulating you on being witty and clever, rather than bragging about it. it's kind of like the difference between getting a blowjob and masturbation. though looking at that ragegasm there, it appears you might not be the best person to understand that analogy.
And Rob if you want b5 done right watch deep space 9, everything positive about b5 can pretty much be said about ds9.
you may notice that those things were also things that were generally never done in any other star trek show. this is because back in 89 when straczynski tried to sell it to paramount, they turned him down as they were busy with tng. years later, they took the notes he gave them when they were looking for a new show and used them as the base of ds9. ds9 is awesome because it is a ripoff of the b5.
in closing, i like startrek. tos was a good show for it's time, it told some stories worth telling and had some ideas worth having but it was also burdened by the naive idealism of it's creator and as a result, alot of it has not held up well over time, sounding preachy and selfricheous, especially regarding the idealized quazi-socialist utopia portrayed. it's characters, while interesting were generally 2 dimensional and static and, except for the
big three were usually interchangeable. i generally regard it the same way i regard shakespeare good, but overrated and generally held on a higher pedestal than it deserves. alot of people hold him as the greatest writer ever, simply because that's what everyone else says, and anyone with a differing opinion is marginalized as an uncultured simp.
now, i've stated my position, and you've stated yours. i intend to leave it at that if you don't mind, as i have no interest in getting in a massive nerdfight in this thread about an online rollplaying game about a show that got canceled in 2002.
