The Captain's Chair

“The average person thinks about the Roman Empire every day” factoid is a statistical error. Tumblr users in March -

Star Trek shouldn't be about saving the entire galaxy and cinematic fight scenes. It should be about what kind of moral dilemmas of the week they can explore with a budget of four cups of coffee, props stolen from other studio sets, and 10 dollars

I fundamentally disagree with Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain. "Never use two words when one will do," "don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do," I'm going to turn a single sentence into an essay and it's going to cost five hundred dollars per word because those are the right words to get across what I mean without ambiguity and misunderstanding, thankyouverymuch