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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

  • I would love to see someone go to a curling rink and demonstrate this this is remotely possible.

    There is no reason to be pointing a finger on release.

    I completely agree. There is absolutely no reason to do it, because there is no chance it will do anything.

  • I have said several time that I have no problem with the rule being enforced.

    a slight drag will prevent over -rotation of the stone.

    I really don't think so, especially the light touch that I've seen on video (which, to be fair, was Homan's throw on the women's side). Again, these things are damn heavy, and you're not going to push them around with a finger without making a visible effort.

  • Look, I find extending a finger to give the stone a boop after release completely baffling...but there's no chance at all that it affected the trajectory of the thing. You might as well "cheat" by blowing on it.

  • The brooms affect the ice in front of the rock, which changes the rock's behaviour as it moves over the swept patch. You have to exert quite a bit of force to push the rock directly.

    And if it had no effect why do they do it?

    Sometimes by accident, I'm sure. And probably more relevant, sometimes out of sheer laziness.

  • this is a common strategy among cheaters in curling

    Very confidently stated, but I really don't think it is.

    it is illegal to do for precisely that reason.

    It's illegal because it's way simpler to implement a "no touching" rule than to try to define game-changing and non game-changing touches in a way that would be enforceable.

    And again, I have absolutely no problem with the rule being enforced, even though I don't think for a hot second that it impacted the game.

  • Having curled myself, I can assure you it does not...and if it did make a difference, it would almost certainly be negative, since you're giving up any semblance of control that you had on the actual throw. There's not going to be some "precision poke" that magically steers it where it needs to go. But don't take my word for it.

    Does it make any difference?

    "No. The double-touching that I've seen has been incidental contact, and that's fingers brushing or hand brushing on a 40-pound piece of granite," said Eugene Hritzuk, a Canadian curler based in Saskatoon who has been involved in competitive curling and coaching for more than 60 years.

    "What can fingers brushing against a 40-pound piece of granite do in any event? You need the palm on your hand against that stone to do anything."

    Delivering a stone entails acute skills to slide on line and on pace, he said.

    Once sliding on target and at the right speed, releasing the stone and then touching it with any force would cause it to veer off its intended line and speed, Hritzuk said. "That would not be advantageous to good execution."

    Canadian curling commentator John Cullen, who hosted the CBC podcast Broomgate: A Curling Scandal, said most top curlers will say that double-touching has no effect on the stone.

    As well, most top curlers will double-touch at times and don't think it's a foul, he said.

    "The idea that a top curler would let a rock go and then want to try to adjust it with their finger —it doesn't seem like there's any way you could get an advantage from that. It feels like it would be worse."

    But as I said, the rules are the rules, and I don't think it's wrong to enforce them.

  • ...if said billiard ball weighed 40 lbs.

    A little finger poke ain't gonna do shit.

    But, the rules are the rules.

  • This is probably as good as you're likely to get.

  • It's interesting that they know that, since it's not in the official release - I suppose they may have seen the screener already.

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    So, definitely a Darem episode, and maybe Genesis as well?

    I can't help but wonder what Caleb's going to do for a "home for the holidays" episode. Staying at the school is possible, but it would be interesting to see him connect with B'Avi's family.

  • For the record, if anyone reading this is that sort of person, you can save us a lot of time and just go away now.

  • The Academy is a fully-functional starship, so she's both the captain and the chancellor. She's 500 years old, is a bit of a hippy, and is happy to lounge around when they're not facing a crisis.

  • The implication is that the portrayal of bad things is somehow an endorsement of bad things, so it most certainly is not.

  • The one that bumps me most is the Totally-Not-Ten-Forward Office of the Federation President.

  • That's a good question. I found this on Memory Alpha:

    A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new starship interiors was abandoned (though a new Kronos One corridor set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the Rura Penthe scenes were scrapped as were plans for new studio models and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of The Undiscovered Country was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used.

    I'm guessing this set was simply not built to hold up under feature film-level resolution.

    Edit: elsewhere on the page, it says the galley was a redress of Troi's office.

  • The way I see it, if there's a big moment and you lost the nuance of what happened with the puck, there'll probably be a replay and I can catch it then.

  • Jettisoning the nacelles was considered in TOS' "The Apple" and "The Savage Curtain", but in both cases they never actually did it.

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