What Is Geekier, in light of recent admissions Options

[Oni Usagi]

I've been reading some recent posts and wondered.
Also, to add a little bit more content to each post, please answer a simple question: Would you date someone who spoke Elvish (any variant) or Klingon?

I think Klingon is a bit more geeky, simply because elves are (slightly) more mainstream. Also because Elves good guys where Klingons are generally bad guys (I think).

Also, I would soo date a girl who spoke elven (if I could find one ). I would also date a girl who spoke Klingon, but speaking Klingon would be neither a plus or a minus.

[Ikemook]

"Uh... 'cause Tolkien is dead? And therefore couldn't write any more books?"

Yes, I understand the sarcasm itself. I just didn't see what that last sentence had to do with Usagi's point. The first sentence was a reply to my main idea. The second sentence played off that. The third just seemed to shift direction. Maybe it was the sudden shift from a pair of negative sarcastic comments to a positive one...

Or maybe I just overanalyzed the damn thing.

*sighs*

On SciFi,

Personally, there are only two above average Star Trek series. The Next Generation, which was great (particle-of-the-week aspect aside), and Enterprise, which borders on "eh", except for occasional brillaint moments.

The DS9 battles were very cool, but the series itself was poor. Voyager...was Voyager.

Has anyone noticed an annoying tendency for non-Star Trek (or at least, non-Roddenberry Star Trek) SciFi series to just get stranger, and stranger, and stranger, ultimately sacrificing their better aspects for plain weirdness, and completely destroying the suspension of belief?

This specifically applies to those series that use humans predominantly with aliens, or at least a different variety of humans. Stargate SG1 is a great example. The first few seasons of this show were just incredible. But, starting around the time the US mysteriously built a giant spaceship to travel the stars with, the series just became too unrealistic to bear.

The cast is still good. It's just that the story, and some of the larger events, are bordering on silly. I mean, how did the US get the funding to build a spaceship? Or the friggin' knowledge? From what I understand, there was little alien help, so we somehow made leaps and bounds in technology (or at least, understanding alien technology) to not only build our on spaceship, but build it on another planet. And in complete secrecy. Without anyone noticing what must have been a rather massive money drain. It just seems too implausible, even for Stargate. And this is just the beginning. The show just kept getting odder and odder.

Is anyone else seeing this? Or am I just crazy? *_*

Maybe a better way to describe this effect is a gradual decline towards "epicness." SciFi series just keep wanting to get grander and grander, constantly raise the stakes some, and so end up bringing in all these crazy ideas that they just don't need.

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On another note, if you all have the chance, pick up a copy of Firefly. It's an excellent SciFi series; in my opinion, it's the best there is. Granted, it's only 14 episodes long (Fox cancelled the show very early on), but given the time it would have definitely become a great.

David