RE: LotR - I find it ironic that people bashed him for making the trilogy into 'only' three movies - and a lot of those same people are bashing him for expanding the hobbit into 3 movies. LOL. Seriously, Tolkien - like Trek and Marvel and a lot of other franchises - have rabid fans, and large parts of those fanbases will not be satisfied -ever- with anything that comes out. Nitpicking is a pastime for a lot of people, and even if Jackson had done LotR in 20 movies, word for word, there would be plenty of folks nitpicking specific actors chosen for certain roles, or the visuals, or the music, or any number of other things. That's just the nature of being human: we -love- to bitch about stuff. :)<br/><br/>RE: 4th ed dying in a cockfire.... hmmm, can't say I've ever SEEN a cockfire... but it sure does sound painful! :P<br/><br/>RE: Treks - NG is my fave simply because it was the one I 'grew up' with, kinda like how it was Voyager for Ember. TOS was just a bit before my time. I actually loved the premise of Voyager, but hated the actress they picked for Janeway. I loved the idea of a female captain, I just never appreciated her as the captain. But talk about "PC"... a black vulcan? A character reminiscent of native-american indians? A female captain? I think Voyager more than any of them was the "PC" machine, really. NG to me felt as if it was just trying to be the 'opposite' of TOS : where Kirk had an aggressive, 'let's duke it out and sleep with every chick' attitude, Picard was the constant diplomat, using force as a last resort even though he had a far more powerful ship.<br/><br/>Of course, NG had Wesley "Save the ship every week" Crusher, and though I do love Wil Wheaton, I don't know if I've ever despised a TV character as much as I hated Mr. Crusher. LOL.<br/><br/>RE: Scientific stuff... same here Andy, I am not a techno-geek. I am sure people will have fun making corrections for me pretty regularly. LOL.<br/><br/>-ark