“I guess when it comes to the children and related legal matters the State will eventually have to become involved.”

Since no relationship is impervious to breakup, a Homosexual relationship will suffer the same ills. If not more. Do you really want the State involved in your most personal affairs? On the surface it seems that Gays do not want the state to tell them how to live. But then are asking for special consideration above others.

“That’s the real kicker is’nt it? Because you just can’t have it both ways.”
It’s nice to have the State recognize a union and make things all official, until things go awry in a relationship, then it WILL BE the State telling you how much to pay, or when you can visit whomever.

THE LESS STATE THE BETTER EVERYONE!
And quit being so defensive!

Let no man tore asunder what God has granted.

You should always test with a 486 or P3 because if it runs under those modest machines then ppl should be alright and not everyone can afford to buy the latest dual/quad core speed demons and I should know …I’m a system builder.

When you think of the people the both hooked up with…

Riker – hussies, hence it could be argued that he has a thing for ho’s.

Troi – a-holes and degenerates (except maybe Wyatt Miller), hence it could be argued that she’s something of a trollop – even Michael Dorn’s nickname for her was ’space whore’!

Soooooo – one would think that even with all the ‘oh noes we caaaan’t – you’re my boss!’ kind of tension, that there would have been at least onnnnne day where they had one too many ten-forward martini’s and that woulda been that.

What’s with them needing some funky brain radiation to get past all that? What there’s no vodka, caviar, and slow dancing in the 24th Century??

#183 – Yeppers, at least Data had that whole 24th Century Frat Party thing with Tasha – and there was something verrrry dominatrix-ish about Alice Krige’s Borg Queen – but he didn’t waste any time, that’s for sure!

- 24th CRS!

All of them except Data; he’s fully functional.

Well, apart from being destroyed and stuff.

I understand he’s a motivational speaker who writes alot of self-help material, but what makes him such an expert on the characters of Star Trek?

And claiming that the characters behave “virtuously” doesn’t say much of anything really, since that is relative to the individual’s particular set of values.

Apparently, Kirk’s “moral compass” doesn’t preclude him from apparently sleeping with a slave girl who has been ordered to please him (”Bread And Circuses”). I wonder how taking advantage of a person relegated to sexual bondage fits within Mr. Pavlina’s set of virtues…

I take it that’s not a “moral failing”…since it wasn’t quickly self-corrected as the author of that passage suggests.

It’s nice that this guy is a fan of Star Trek, but he’s hardly an authoritative figure on its characters. His interpretations are just that—interpretations.