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It's interesting to see the changes made over multiple edits of this script. For me, it's a mixed bag, but one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Yeoman Janice Rand's clothes must be torn off. It's just a question of how torn off they get.

I can't say it's pleasant to hear Harlan Ellison relitigate 30-year-old beef with Gene Roddenberry, but it is interesting.

Wondering if this manic pixie noir girl is going to end up a class traitor. Best case scenario seems to be if she robs everyone blind and lives out the rest of her life glamorous in Majorca while everyone else gets to have a revolution.

Re: The Small Assassin

The ending is a little ludicrous and also unnecessary: being a parent of an infant is horror enough. Between the physical pain, the risk of death and disability, the risk of postpartum depression and psychosis, and the rolling illnesses, it's grueling. Add on top of that sleep deprivation that would be a war crime if committed intentionally, and it's basically torture.

Re: Touched with Fire.

So, she's a salty sonofabitch, but the old men are wholly in the wrong here, so I kind of wish the woman would have beaten their asses. No saints or heroes. Go down swinging.

"My new magical safeguards were the lock on the front door, and the boards over the windows, and the barricades along the sides of the house."

I love it.

And now we're defending the pedagogical value of games. Just swinging wildly between the great and the terrible in terms of ideas.