Comments on: Interview with Steven Moffat… live?

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:25:59 +0000

I’m slightly ashamed that I know this, but in Enterprise, someone explains that in an effort to breed superwarriors, the Klingons tried to adapt Brent Spiner’s techniques which had the unfortunate affect of shrinking their skull ridges and making them look like bikers. Which explains Worf’s remark to Chief O’Brien that “we don’t discuss it.” It appears Kirk only ever encountered genetically modified Klingons.

By: Murdats

Murdats — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:56:37 +0000

@Petrucio
anything is science fiction if you make up a fancy description.

reincarnation could be a process of telepathic transfer or imprinting, perhaps a materialisation of a cognitive essence. I dunno the doctor is better at that then I am

but the key difference between fantasy and sci fi is in fantasy magic did it, in sci fi some complicated process did it, oh and things tend to be made out of metal or organic materials in sci fi.
eg. magic wand – sonic screwdriver
blinking – teleporting
invisibility spell – invisibility field and so on.

By: Petrucio

Petrucio — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:01:32 +0000

-Cloning won’t bring the character back (the actress will tho)
-Reincarnation is not science.
-I’m OK with the brain backup.

By: Steve Manfred

Steve Manfred — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:00:16 +0000

Hello Steven M.

Did you vote for Paul Cornell or for yourself for the Hugo this year?

- Steven M.

By: Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:20:16 +0000

“Sorry if this is a spoiler for you, but since Tosh is kinda dead I don’t think much romance is in her future. . .”

This is science fiction. A character isn’t dead until you see the body turned to ash, the ashes thrown in sulphuric acid, and the ashes dumped in a black hole.

And maybe not then either. (Reincarnation? Digital brain copy? Cloning?)

By: PsyberDave

PsyberDave — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:57:15 +0000

I have several questions:

1) Who would win in a fight; Darth Vader or The Batman Dark Knight?
2) Who would win in a fight between Kirk and Picard?
3) Who would win in a fight between Captain Picard and Dr. Xavier?
4) How have you been able to resolve the vast morphological differences between the menacing Klingons in Kirk’s day with those more convivial, albeit more intimidating appearing Klingons of Picard’s day?

By: Roy Batty

Roy Batty — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:39:46 +0000

Moffat: How much of the next season has he got scoped out already? ie has he any stories already planned, does he already a have rough scope of where the season is going to go etc?
Asking a bit soon maybe but experience shows that this is a bloke that thinks ahead (not to mention backwards, sideways & any which wibbly wobbly way )

Mori: Just remember to keep your tongue in – I’d probably forget ;-D

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:12:25 +0000

ARGH!!!

I’m going in the opposite direction of SD today to go visit my mother in Sacramento.

Not only will I miss all of ComicCon in general, but I’m even going to have to miss watching this because my mother lives in the stone age and has no connection the net *at all*. I can’t even pick up an open wifi signal in her complex!

I’m going to cry!

Please, please, please… let there be an archive I can watch when I get back!

Anywho…

Questions I would ask:

Ditto madge and IMForeman re: River Song and Sally Sparrow.

Speaking of Blink, will Hettie MacDonald direct any more episodes?

Also, are the rumors about a spin off about Jenny true, and/or when we will see her again?

I’d also like to know exactly how much of the writing he’ll be involved with.

By: BILL7718

BILL7718 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:03:37 +0000

Do they play online games (WoW, EQ2, AoC, etc)? I always wonder if my online friends are under cover famous peeps, but then I realize that’s impossible because famous people have lives.

By: Nome

Nome — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:47:09 +0000

I just read http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html and I have to say that in one way you hit the nail on the head, but you missed a very important piece of knowledge.
You say… Astrology is wrong, that’s the kind of absolutism that causes dogmas and religious wars, coming from a professional point of view it seems quite sloppy in the language department. I also think you failed to see a lot of the importance in astrology. Yes, put the predictions and newspaper columns aside. It seems you have done some research but then just simply trailed off. The ancient societies that came up with these ideas were simply trying to become closer to something they didn’t understand, by anthropomorphizing the starts into human-like beings or animals they could give them characteristics which were easier to relate to, and the respect they would show to these entities by telling of fantastical stories and mysticism. The stories they told could then influence the minds of the listeners and readers and the possibilities of these avatars and gods, that indeed did live in the celestial heavens, would create new generations of possibles personalities and humans could go beyond what they thought they could be and become more, closer to “gods” closer to the heavens and closer to something that couldn’t be understood.

just my take on it anyway,
if interested look into
shamanism, Robert Anton Wilson, maybe logic, the dead sea scrolls, Tarrence Mckenna, dmt and ancient society.

Thanks for the necessary dismissal of what astrology is not, sorry for assuming that you might not know what I am presenting, just think it’s good info and should be considered.
THNKS