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Actually, it's not simple fascination with the idea. There's good valid reasons to do it when the tech is available. It gives faster response times and more intuitive controls and interfaces. They've actually found in modern research that a chimp wired into a robot arm will actually develop brain sections devoted to working the robot arm. It becomes just another part of the chimp's body. If I recall, similar effects can be seen in sensory devices feeding data in through the tongue(long story short, it's got a LOT of nerve endings and isn't doing a whole lot with them unless you're eating, making it a perfect place to hijack for input). They actually try to show some of this with the scenes showing Guld's "view" from the YF-21. He can "see" the full sensor suite's view without having to look down at viewscreens or toggle modes. X-ray, IR, visible light, etc all comes in like an extension of his own eyes. Furthermore, he can see things that would be virtually impossible to project onto conventional displays intelligibly, like missile maneuverability cones. And, of course, there's the launch sequence where they show him "flexing" his hands to adjust the plane wings and his feet to tweak the thrust vectoring. A massive dumbing-down of the actual situation, but really the best you can do with a visual medium. Despite the massive complexity of a top-end variable fighter, once you learn the interface piloting a VF becomes as intuitive as walking down the street, which is more than any modern single-mode fighter can claim, much less a variable fighter with conventioanl controls. Which ties back to DYRL-style Bodol, actually. A fleet commander doesn't need a conventional body. What he needs is instant access to his fleet without a chain of peons standing between him and his comm system, defensive weaponry, offensive weaponry, etc waiting to misunderstand orders that already take valuable seconds to hand out. What better way to do this than make the ship istelf the commander's body? The big question is why ALL zentradi aren't interfaced to their ships in DYRL, from the regults on up. And THAT is the same reason Macross 7 isn't full of BCS/BDI valks. It's all about aesthetics. A pilot that sits there motionless with his eyes shut doesn't make for good animation. It's alien and un-natural to the viewer. They want to see people running around and yanking joysticks. ... Truthfully, Mac7 should be full of BCS drones(Sharon Apple is but one of a large number of problems with AI, and likely not the first one to worry about). Remote piloting removes the restriction of the human body, which is enough of a problem that real-world fighter jets have limiters to keep pilots from killing themselves. But remote control is even less appealing to the average viewer than neural interfaces.

Ah the metric system! You mean that little known system that's in use by 99% of the world Graham Yah. That silly thing.

He's a car. He takes it up the tail pipe of course! Graham *cries* Oh yeah? Well the VF-1A has a penis on it's head!

Nah. They left it back on Earth, half a galaxy away.

As long as we're doing phonetics... Pheyos sounds a lot like feo. Spanish for ugly.

KITT WAS NOT GAY! As a sidenote... I feel sorry for whoever had to write up the description on the back of that DVD box. Really, everyoen that cares already KNOWS what Knight Rider is, and the people that don't know aren't going to be sold by a 2-sentence description. In point of fact, you're correct. William Daniels who played K.I.T.T. is not gay, at least according to IMDB. However, with K.I.T.T.'s effeminate voice, and condescending nature, it's not a very big leap. Let's be honest, talking cars are gay no matter how you slice it. But, if K.I.T.T. were gay, that would be yet another homosexual advance that Agent ONE would have to rebuff How can a car BE gay? Technically, you have to have a sexuality to be gay, and cars are asexual.

And in your bedroom via wall posters with big hearts drawn all over them... You seem to follow me around Macross World making homosexual comments... I can only conclude that this is some sort of attempt to have homosexual relations with me... I appologise. I am straight. Don't feel alone though you are not the first homosexual man that has been turned down by me. If you are looking for a man I suggest looking to M7 fans. Are you sure it's not just that your awesomeness is so great that it makes even straight men want you?

KITT WAS NOT GAY! As a sidenote... I feel sorry for whoever had to write up the description on the back of that DVD box. Really, everyoen that cares already KNOWS what Knight Rider is, and the people that don't know aren't going to be sold by a 2-sentence description.

Talking cars are too implausable, but you're a fan of a show that has 30-foot men and transforming jetplanes?

Looks less painful to me. ... Of course, the artist exempted her from having to strap her knees to her butt...

You mean the DVD sets, right? Not actual production costs? Paramount likes ripping Trekkies off. Always has.

Political intrigue isn't really the order of the day, though. 6, 9, and 10 only. ... Granted, they've tried for it in both of the last 2 movies.

What about Generations? Next Gen blew up the Enterprise AND killed Kirk. Killed him twice, no less. I think the more theatrical flair of the original generation movies has more to do with the cast. Kirk is just a much better movie captain than Picard is. Jean-Luc is just too reserved to be a particularly strong movie character. Not a real flaw with the character, he just doesn't lend himself well to the theatrical expectations. I'll give you that... Generations was a lot more like a real movie than an episode of TNG. But, because the plot tied in heavily with the original Trek characters, I wasn't really counting it. Besides, a lot of the TNG stuff in Generations, like the sailing in the holodeck, still could have been ripped from the TV show. Fair enough. It IS a hybrid show. But they still killed Kirk twice. Precisely. Picard stands back and looks at everything before he acts. Towards a peaceful solution if at all possible, and the one that gets the fewest people on either side hurt if no peaceful solution is handy. And does it by the book whenever possible(which sadly includes him staying on the bridge while other people go and have all the fun). Kirk dives right in and doesn't care if he violates a few dozen laws(or even the prime directive) while getting the job done. He has no objection to blasting everything in sight if he thinks the situation calls for it, and is ALWAYS going to be found where the action is, regardless of regulations. I think Sisko would've made a good movie captain too. Honestly, he's my favorite one in the franchise. But they killed him off... sort of. ... Man, I hated how they ended that series.

It would be appropriate... *still sulking over his multiple broken Trackses in childhood*

What about Generations? Next Gen blew up the Enterprise AND killed Kirk. Killed him twice, no less. I think the more theatrical flair of the original generation movies has more to do with the cast. Kirk is just a much better movie captain than Picard is. Jean-Luc is just too reserved to be a particularly strong movie character. Not a real flaw with the character, he just doesn't lend himself well to the theatrical expectations.

Of course, as random PCEngine games go, you could do worse than Image Fight. Irem's a good company.

It's in MAME. Vertically scrolling. Like DYRL arcade, only harder and prettier. And it has the missile strike, which DYRL lacks. And you get to choose one of 3 pilots/planes. Aside from the obvious Isamu/YF-19 and Guld/YF-21 we have a female in a VF-11.

Ah... You are just looking for an invitation to touch em!!! I know this trick. Chicks are always trying to find some logical excuse to touch my balls also. That must be it. My avatar is clouding my judgement. Guess I have to ditch pseudo-Komillia for Focker, that oughta fix it.

But what does it really MATTER when it's set? Honestly, what makes the average Voyager story and the average Kirk story diffrent, aside from writing quality? Okay, so skip Borg and Holodeck episodes. But that still leaves a lot of room.

It's simple... $24,000 + utterly massive massive marekting blitz = ONE MILLION dollars.

With a diffrent writer and diffrent cast, too. Surely no one can object to a new writer, though I personally LIKED the cast of Enterprise.

Heck if I know. But it's funny.

Well, his title really depends on whose penis that actually was. I liked it better when it said "I LOVE doorknobs!" personally.

Or else you're confusing "tomatoes" with "peanuts".

It's straight post count. Does nothing special aside from giving people a chuckle and adding a little more personality to the board than newbie, junior member, member, etc. Unless you do something to draw the right attention. Then you get a custom title, like Agent ONE.