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I will say that my personal favorite was Deep Space Nine because it touched on a great many topics that the rest of the Trek universe basically held as taboo.

-Religion- With Sisko the Emissary of the Prophets they had a Starfleet officer a Moses of the Bajoran religion, and while his reaction started as the typical Federation reaction to religious belief (condescending acceptance) that the end of the series had him staying with the Prophets to be instructed showed an amazing journey of the soul that Star Trek until then didn't seem to believe in.

-War- In Star Trek was was basically either flashy effects laden battles with consoles that had a disturbing lack of safety features, or refugee camps that our Starfleet officers were beaming down to. In DS9 they started with the ending of the occupation of Bajor and had the HUGE Dominion war, and there friend and foe became blurred, and the realities of war became more more multidimensional.

-Authority- While there was SOME rebellion against authority in other Treks they were typically rebelling against this corrupt offical or that pig-headed superior, but were diligently loyal to the Federation as a whole. In DS9 they often brought the entire Federation into question, right from the beginning really since the peace treaty that led to the Cardassian's pulling out of Bajor still had a LOT of bad feelings on both sides.

-Multiculturalism- In Most Trek's the Federation is seen as the ideal, and other cultures are measured by how Federation-like they are. While I touched on it a bit in religion the space station DS9 was by it's nature more of a melting pot of cultures rather then the Starfleet vessels which are by their nature a singular culture.

On DS9 things like Klingon mating were shown, and Ferengi greed were explored byond the simple sterotypes they were held to in the other series, but also humanity was shown to not always be the shining creature that other Trek series seemed to make them out to be.

While other series tried to show it (like Q putting humanity on trial on the very first TNG) I think DS9 did it better.

So that's why it's my favorite Trek to date.

Yeah, that's what the comment thread is for. I was more saying that you can vote 1-5 to give your vote more texture, and then flesh out your opinion in the comments.

I have to say I'm liking the 5 star system. More then once when doing the FF reviews I put in more then two options because a simple yes or no didn't feel sufficient. When you consider that the comment thread is going to be there (and inevitably used) either way then a 5 star system would give people more options in expressing their views on a pose while also making the successes that much more apparent to the development team. (Which should help them know what types are popular or not.)

Because until they log in they effectively cease to exist.

Actually I've always approached it like each move for each grouping as a whole different entity. Though in my case it was primarily because I was getting sick of the strap-on penis substitute being 90% of the conversion.

(Though again Rukya's point about how that's not so bad if they crank out the conversions faster still stands.)

On the Trek uniform issue... parody IS protected speech. It's why there are now a flood of parody pron movies out. So replacing the Starfleet insignia SHOULD be enough to satisfy the legal hurdle.

Welcome to the Forum Kevlar, you're in the right place.

Happy Easter everyone.

I approve here. 

Meh, all they have to do is actually talk to premiums (which would make a modification of the Zzzz likely) which is at the heart of the point for at least  most of those in favor of the Zzzz anyway,

Okay, back from vacation (full blown out of town vacation, not from the Forum, but from the PC and home entirely).

Jeanona... I didn't direct it at you specifically, because I didn't see it as such, though I realize my wording looked otherwise. I should have phrased it perhaps "The core idea seems to be..." Because in discussions I have found it can help to make sure people are on the same page, even when on different sides of an issue, and I wanted to say that the core idea seemed to be whether or not an option should be removed from the game.

The reason I do such on occasion is because tangents happen.

Like me saying I really like New's idea for allowing free users to only invite free users, but be invited by premiums... I think that could have as much if not more effect on the annoying hails as the current Zzzz button.

Hummm when this discussion first came up the seeming consensus was that you could play that you were younger, but had to make the statement that you were of age. Like people can play airline pilots or police officers  with out actually being members of that profession.

Still, that would seem to say they put a solid ban down on all ageplay. It's probably for the best.

And read the profile. A guy telling a gay girl he wants to fuck her is going to have about as much success on AChat as in real life.

I know there are some girls who use homo to try to filter guys, but assuming that's the case will just have all us sincerely gay girls wanting to filter/ignore or whatever.

I have to agree Zinah. While I want to keep the Free Ignore option if they implemented a way to shut down invites until I turn it on I would use that option much, much more.

Okay with the "teen" word coming into play I need to say that if you want to PLAY under 18 is one thing, consenting adult age play is perfectly acceptable, but people honestly under 18 are not allowed here on this forum or AChat, and for obvious legal reasons that has to be basically that.