Unfortunately there surrounds a whole lot of stigma around studying the female sex of humans. We know more about how one of horses or cows function, because if someone is seeking funding to study the human female sex there is an immediate opinion you're just a perv.
I read a few interviews about this quite a while ago, I'll try to find them...
I dunno. I hate how SNW straight up ripped off the Xenomorphs for the Gorn. Turning them into horrid monsters rather than a civilisation in a territory dispute with the Federation.
I thought, fair enough; the first season of any Star Trek series is pretty rough, but I saw potential. But then season two happened and I just couldn't. Season three came out... I think... But I haven't bothered.
It doesn't need to be hard sci-fi. It's just significantly better and more thought out than most sci-fi, and especially better than what Abrams and Kurtzman made of it.
No it wasn't. Ships worked a certain way. The manual for the Enterprise D existed before the Enterprise D was shown on screen. If you follow along what the crew are saying about the ship and its systems you'll eventually get a "feel" for how it functions.
What neither Rodenberry or Berman explicitly didn't want was to have the characters spoon feed how the ship works for the audience. They were supposed to talk professionally like they knew their jobs and the tools they worked with.
The whole breathless fast-talk with meaningless bullshit is a modern thing from writers and execs who don't give a crap about sci-fi.
Sad thing is that the cast was actually good. Chris Pine actually cared enough about the role to approach JJ and ask about what certain lines (about ship damage) meant. JJ simply told him it didn't matter and to just say the lines very urgently, because the audience wouldn't care.
It's only making it more expensive for themselves. They want to have two production lines for two separate models... Well that effects their profit margin.
Birthrates are down because (amongst other things) it's financially impossible to have a family in this time.
However, as much as these tech billionaires invest into AI, they still need grunt workers to keep society running. So eventually these billionaires will lose value because society doesn't have workers.
I have tasted KFC a few times, and I just can't believe there are 11 herbs or spices. I'll believe there are three; salt, a little bit of black pepper, and MSG.
I swear, I can make better fried chicken at home with less ingredients KFC claims to have, and it'll actually taste like those ingredients.
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