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I wonder how that (filched) list compares with my hastily thrown together http://www.amenable.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/2Ksite/allList.html">almost everything?

"Guilty!"

Shakara's entire dialogue:

Book 1 - Shakara:

Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
I have no voice. My voice is their voice.
A death-scream that never ends.
I have no name. My name is their name. Shakara.
I am the dead who will not die. I am Shakara. The Avenger.


Book 2 - The Assassin:

Shakara!
Sha-
Shakara.
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Not...Dead...
Not dead. I am death!
Shakara!
Too...much...talk!
Shakara!


Book 3 - The Defiant:

Shakara!
Shakara!
Shakara!
Leave. Now.
Leave. Now.
Lara Procopio. Murderer.
Lara Procopio. Creator of the Red Death. Murderer of the Shakara.

I like the idea that initially, Shakara was just a pure force of vengeance, but now he's evolving.  

Plus, if she becomes his female sidekick, teaming up with him against the mighty forces of a galactic empire, it'll be even more like Nemesis.

::"I mean who the f#ck actually says "native Americans"!?"

Me.

Although, if it really was political correctness run amok, it wouldn't be "native american", necessarily, because the word native might be considered derogatory, the word "american" needn't only apply to the USA, and the term itself might be offensive purely on the basis that it's been imposed by what may be viewed as an outside force.

Really, then, it's quite far from political correctness run amok, and is more like a term that's used to describe, in this case, I assume, "indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States".  That wouldn't scan so well.

As far as I can find scanning the net, the term "native american" was introduced in the 1950s, so you could argue it's out of place in Stickleback.  (But then, there were steam-powered exo-bots in there as well, and those have never existed.)

I'm drifting now - I leave you with a FACT: "A 1996 survey[59] revealed that more American Indians in the United States still preferred American Indian to Native American. Nonetheless, most American Indians are comfortable with Indian, American Indian, and Native American, and the terms are now used interchangeably."

I love Kingdom.

Everything else also groovy.

Bit unfair there, Bico.  Doctor Neelix was an incredibly innovative character.  As was Science Officer Spockette.  And Captain Upstanding. And...

Potential spoilers for new Trek movie.  Don't read if you don't want it spoiled.

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As phrases go, "fan wank" is probably not a good choice, and I think I only used it because someone else did once and I thought it was cool.

"Unnecessary revisionism" is a more accurate phrase.

Having already had the whole Worf/DS9 look at that, the idea that it would be looked at again just strikes me as very smug, pat-on-the-back, cutesy and trite, when they could be focussing on telling an original story.

As with Dredd's family's mutation being a big chin.  (Although I have no good idea what other mutation would work well, now that I think about it, and have to concede it's probably the best choice.)

As with C-3PO and R2-D2 being shouldered into the new Star Wars trilogy when they weren't needed. (I feel on safer ground now.)

I think my exact words, in posting my thoughts on the prog in which it was revealed that Dredd's mutie brethren had giant chins, were something very close to "disturbing fan wank".

I've had time to calm down now, and can see the good parts of Origins, but then, the only good parts are those that have threaded either from or into other stories.

Origins itself was pretty poor: a shit in a silk hammock.

Well, you see, even that they address that at all makes it sound shit.  They looked different because the design changed.  We all KNOW that.  Including it in the story is just pandering to fan-wank.

And Enterprise was formulaic, predictable pish.  It was like the 50s of Trek series, and the 50s were grey, boring and wore tweed.

::"Voyager was designed to operate in atmosphere and land on planets, and I've heard people say that was the original intention for TOS Enterpise"

I've read that, as well.  Apparently, the transporter was only invented to avoid the cost of doing landing and taking off scenes, or incorporating the ship into planet scenes.

(No idea if that's accurate, or how that ties in with shuttles.)

Things you don't expect to find on a big robots thread: spoilers for Cloverfield.  (I know, I know - I'm a whiny cnut.)

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Lovely robot pics, btw.

The script that opens the new window needs to explicitly set resizeable to "yes" or 1.  At the moment, it's either explicitly or implicitly set to "no", or 0, which Firefox and IE are sensibly ignoring, but safari is adhering to.  That would solve it, in the short term.

The actual problem is that the resize script built into the window that opens: safari has some problem with this: top.window.outerHeight. Whether it's the top, or the outerHeight part that's at issue, I haven't checked.  Anyway, it ignores the code it doesn't understand and instead falls back on the size of the last window that was opened - which is usually the same size as the smiley, as JEB said.

It's a silly script, anyway, as why bother maximising the height?  It looks a bit daft at 1280*1024.  You could just as easily do resizeTo(800,600);, plus make sure the resizing is kept on for poor, undefended Safari.

If Wake sends me the code used to create the preview window, it'd be good experience for me to investigate a solution.

That ghibli-bot's chest puts me in mind of Big George, robot colossus of Mars.