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    Interesting Take on Kirk...

    Caught this in my travels, wanted to get some reactions.

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    Um...'kay. He's right: the other shows lacked the kind of 'what the hey' sexuality that the first show had. Probably just the times it was shot in.
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    Erm... so, sexy characters in TOS are OK, but in ENT not anymore ?

    Sorry.
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    Hey C5, that comment about Enterprise was <I>political</I>!!!
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    Can you imagine Jean-Luc Picard not wearing spotless knickers with a built-in containment field, changed twice a day and incinerated after use?
    ROTFLMAO .
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    'Tis a pity one cannot read the entire article without handing salon.com one's credit card number. It looked promising...
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    Originally posted by C5
    Erm... so, sexy characters in TOS are OK, but in ENT not anymore ?

    Sorry.
    Noticed that, did you?
    "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

    John Stuart Mill

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    OK, Terrific

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