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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:01 am
by Teaos
Barclay was probably the most interesting second tier character in Trek.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:12 am
by Tsukiyumi
Teaos wrote:Barclay was probably the most interesting second tier character in Trek.
Agreed. He was a good contrast to the really "normal", well-adjusted major characters on TNG. Unless everyone is on Prozac and Xanax in the 24th century, there would still be a lot of people with mental disorders.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:40 am
by Teaos
Maybe gene therapy gets rid of the big problems. Barclay was just odd.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:58 am
by Tsukiyumi
Teaos wrote:Maybe gene therapy gets rid of the big problems. Barclay was just odd.
He was a paranoid obsessive-compulsive neurotic with mild asperger syndrome. Hardly small problems.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:04 am
by Teaos
Yeah but apart from that he's totally normal
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:10 am
by Tsukiyumi
Teaos wrote:Yeah but apart from that he's totally normal
As normal as most of us, at any rate.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:19 pm
by Mikey
Or more...
Dwight Schultz does seem to get the roles without both oars in the water, doesn't he?
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:48 pm
by Blackstar the Chakat
Hey, it occured to me while driving this morning, if British cars have the driver on the right side of the car, does that mean they have to shift with their left hand?
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:50 pm
by Teaos
Yip. We do that here as well.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:35 pm
by Mikey
ChakatBlackstar wrote:Hey, it occured to me while driving this morning, if British cars have the driver on the right side of the car, does that mean they have to shift with their left hand?
Not all - some of them probably have automatic transmissions.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:40 pm
by Blackstar the Chakat
Mikey wrote:ChakatBlackstar wrote:Hey, it occured to me while driving this morning, if British cars have the driver on the right side of the car, does that mean they have to shift with their left hand?
Not all - some of them probably have automatic transmissions.
but the shifter would still be on the left hand side. Unless it's on the steering column like in my mom's mini-van. I really hate that van...
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:42 pm
by Captain Seafort
ChakatBlackstar wrote:but the shifter would still be on the left hand side. Unless it's on the steering column like in my mom's mini-van. I really hate that van...
Ug. Flappy paddle gearboxes.
As for changing gear left handed, what's the problem? I'd say it's a lot safer than taking your dominant hand off the wheel.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:45 pm
by Blackstar the Chakat
Captain Seafort wrote:ChakatBlackstar wrote:but the shifter would still be on the left hand side. Unless it's on the steering column like in my mom's mini-van. I really hate that van...
Ug. Flappy paddle gearboxes.
As for changing gear left handed, what's the problem? I'd say it's a lot safer than taking your dominant hand off the wheel.
What about the E-brake or even the gas and break peddles? Are those backwards too?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:48 pm
by Captain Seafort
ChakatBlackstar wrote:What about the E-brake
The what?
or even the gas and break peddles? Are those backwards too?
The clutch is on the left, the brake's in the middle and the accelerator's on the right.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:52 pm
by Mikey
E-brake is shorthand for emergency brake or parking brake. You know, the one you use to do a bootlegger reverse?
You know what's weird? There are two completely different animals, called "groundhog" and "aardvark;" but aardvark translates as "earth pig."