So, Im reading this book...

Its a Star Trek book, based around the Klingon Empire. The Fleet has been given the assignment of exploring (every klingons dream =p) and charting an unexplored area of the beta-quadrant, with the intent of finding worlds to conquer and make apart of the Klingon Empire. According to Klingons, any world that they do succesfully conquer is theirs, and the natives are reduced to something called jegh'pu'wI, which is more or less defined as something between a slave and a citizen of the Empire.
I was wondering. What if that happened to us? Here we are, mere Earthlings going about our everyday buisness and all of a sudden some alien spieces show up with every intent on conquering us. Not neccesarily kill-anything-that moves way, but an overthrow. Would Earth be able to put up adequate defences? Or would the fact that we have so many individual governments spatting at each other hinder it? If the take-over species is capable of that kind of spaceflight, then they probably are extremly superior to us in other matters as well; technology, weapons, that kinda thing. Doubtfull that they would have anything like the Prime Directive on file. Some species may not be as thoughtfull as Vulcans, waiting until we achive Warp (or something similar) to make contact with us. From what many people say, it sounds as if we're expecting to be some of the first in space, establishing First Contact with everything else out there.
Who knows? Maybe theres a fleet of something out there, just beyond our satelites range, watching, plotting. Waiting to make US theyre jegh'pu'wI?



Yeh, I know Im harping a lot on Trek Lore, but its something to think about. Not only are we probably not alone in this big, bad universe; Its more than likely that most others we run into can kick our asses to the Delta Quad and back a few dozen times.

Stumble It!

What are friends for, anyway?

When did a simple concept such as friendship become extinct? Apparently, no one can see a pair of guys or girls hanging out together without thinking something along the lines of 'theyre probably gay'.
The subject of Ophrah being a lesbian because Gayle's is always somewhere about was brought up.
Again.
GodDAMNIT its getting old. One, theyre really great friends. Yay! People take friendship like this for granted. Dont. Sometimes these friendships can mean just as much (if not moreso) than the relationship you have with your boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever. Two, she's rather high up in Ophrah's magazine/tv show/and-so-on (forgive me, Im really not the talk show type, and the only time ive ever picked up her magazine was at the doctors office. No offence, just not my type of thing. Thats why Im not sure exactly what Gayle does) . It wouldnt do if they hated each others guts, now, would it?

That goes for a guy and a girl hanging out together as well. Did you know that it IS possible for a male and a female to be very good friends, and not be dating/sleeping together/and so on? Probably a foreign concept to many. My two best friends are guys. I tend to get along with guys much better than I do girls.
So whats going to happen when I land myself a boyfriend? Will I have to fight off his jealous streak every time I talk to another guy? Every time I go hang out with my best friends? That just wont do.
Im tired of having to repeat time and time again that neither of the guys I hang out with are my boyfriend to the same people. "Are you sure youre not going out?" they ask, "Maybe your in denial" or "perhaps your ignoring the signals."
Its none of the above. I know where I stand.
Ive had to defend a similar position with another friend of mine, a woman. It was semi-common knowledge that she was a lesbian. We became friends when I was in school. Because I had been seen hanging out with her, all of a sudden I was bombarded with questions about me being gay. That did nothing but piss me off. Damnit, these were people that knew me! Or I thought they did anyway, at least well enough to know where I stood here.

Id say that the gall of some people amaze me, but at this point, Im no longer surprised at how shallow we've become.

Stumble It!