In Store For 2013-06-27

[Mark N]

It also looks like Pratt is remembering more from her past life. She seems to remember Brandi from before she was star-gated all those millenia ago.

[Dave]

*imagines Phil Swift and a can of Flecth Theal and shudders*

Not a pretty image dude... not pretty at all. I'll never look at thothe Flecth Theal commerthials the thame way again. Even Jeri Ryan can't make Flecth Theal thecthy...

The brain bleach is over in aisle 5, Dily, and I think the pharmacy can sell you a dose of Retcon without requiring a prescription

[Yamara]

Wow...Atsali is about as tactful in revealing familial links as Bia. (though she's twice as confusing)

I second this post. lol

Of course, Nudge was the one who really dropped the bomb there.

I'd say Shelly got carpet-bombed in stereo that day, learning the truth about both sides of her family tree.

Atsali isn't an immortal, nigh-elemental Titan holding on to a secret of her own actions for 80,000 years. Blurty new teen mentat is blurty. Ancient primordial mother holds responsibility-- that's several orders of magnitude above "tact".

Having the accumulated knowledge of a dead civilization firehosed into her frontal cortex can't have made things any easier for her.

But now she can try out all those Etheitian pranks. And they'll all work great, because they're totally akashic.

Plus, if Tina becomes "whole" soon, we're going to need someone who can cheerfully babble mysterious and frightening things to the crew on a reliable basis.

[KnightDelight]

The thing that bugged me about the 7 of 9 character was that she wore very high heels. Yes, I know she was there just for the T&A of it, but comon; I mean what Borg would wear high heels? That was just stupid.

No, no, no! The relationship diagram must fit on a single cork board! And why does this one orange string wrap around the table lamp twice as it jumps from board one to three?

I think the wrap around either represents one of Paul's famous sudden shift of plot direction, or a time loop cycle.

Can we use more than four dimensions?)

I think it best to limit things to 5 for simplicity's sake. At least then you can place an infinite number of parts of a given relationship diagram on the same board. In fact all the diagrams on the same board. That is to say, put up the first part, then take it down, then the second part, etc. That way you will have spread the whole diagram along the time line. Then you can use the 5th dimension to view all the separate time periods at once. How to do that is left as an exercise for the reader.

I don't wonder that they're concerned. Dangerous Directors, exploding helicopters, mummy-golems throwing murderous sucker-punches, ravening ago-old vengeful succubi, unexpected reunions with children you didn't know you had...

I recall a joke by a female comedian that went "I don't have any children <pause> that I know of <elbow, elbow, wink wink>". Paul has just shown such a thing can be real in the Wapsiworld.

[Mark N]

I recall a joke by a female comedian that went "I don't have any children <pause> that I know of <elbow, elbow, wink wink>". Paul has just shown such a thing can be real in the Wapsiworld.

You have never met any women that spent several years in a drug fueled haze then. (I know it is not funny, but it was not meant to be. The joy I could experience with a few shots of industrial strength brain bleach)

[as363]

I still think that Ms. G could become a semi-major player in months to come . And - if she were to adopt Sali - well so much the better. Could get real interesting (not to say that it isn't already)

[scantrontb]

... and it sounds as if they, and Ms. Katherine One-Of-Six, may all be required to trade in their tasteful business dress for highly-revealing spray-on-latex fanservice Borg bodysuits.

actually, i think that Katherine should more properly be called Six-in-One. as she is the six babies all melded together... while yes her ?Mom? Lily is the person that can go by the nom-de-plume of One-of-Six, being as she is (in theory) one of the six mothers that was improperly separated from their babies at the time of storage... um... that is, if she IS one of those women in the first place and we're not all out in left field somewhere...

[Wyvern]

Seven of Nine, one of six, six of one, half a dozen of the other ...

"They say it's six of one and a half dozen of the other, but it's not; it's Six for Two and Two for nothing!"

[My2Cents]

Bud Buys McBride a new bra with a larger hidden pocket.

She might want to introduce her to Monica's bra designer instead.

[MerchManDan]

It also looks like Pratt is remembering more from her past life. She seems to remember Brandi from before she was star-gated all those millenia ago.

I had thought Pratt was talking about when she first met the Senior Director in this week of comics.

[Sidhekin]

What throws me is that the speaker (I'm not sure if it's P or McB; both art and dialogue is somewhat ambiguous) refers to her as "Brandi".

Pratt has addressed her and they both have referred to her, but never as "Brandi". McB has called her "the Director" and "Director Oduya", even in response to Bud's question concerning "Brandi". P has called her "the, the Chess Master", "Ms. Oduya", "Senior Director Oduya", and "the Director of MiB".

Since when is she "Brandi"?

It also looks like Pratt is remembering more from her past life. She seems to remember Brandi from before she was star-gated all those millenia ago.

That seems to me the best explanation so far.

[Julie]

Interesting. "I know Brandi. She wasn't always crazy evil. She was odd, but not evil. Not like that."

So, Suzi knew Brandi previously? i wonder how/when they met before. I suppose this explains how Suzi could tell Bud "the Director's insane"... she was comparing the Brandi she knew, with the Oduya she was observing.

We've seen that Lily didn't know Senior Director Oduya before this incident, except by scary reputation.

It also looks like Pratt is remembering more from her past life. She seems to remember Brandi from before she was star-gated all those millenia ago.

Yeah...I had these thoughts yesterday, too...and then promptly forgot them when going through all of the comments. Silly me and my easily distracted memory!

[kingklash]

Seven of Nine, one of six, six of one, half a dozen of the other ...

"They say it's six of one and a half dozen of the other, but it's not; it's Six for Two and Two for nothing!"

25 or 6 to 4?

[Fairportfan]

I looked around for the "Six of one" segment from the penultimate Prisoner episode on YouTube, but couldn't find it.

[bmonk]

Kath can assimilate me any day.

Are you saying that resistance is futile?

[bmonk]

I've put up several cork boards with lots of colored pins, colored yarn, and colored post-it notes in the confusion corner. Whoever's relationship diagram is the most artistic will have it lacquered and framed to be presented to Paul as a thank you gift.

No, no, no! The relationship diagram must fit on a single cork board! And why does this one orange string wrap around the table lamp twice as it jumps from board one to three?

Can we use more than four dimensions?

Just don't twist the string around the fifth through tenth dimensions. Last time someone did that, it ended up forming a naked singularity. And I don't mean Katherine talking to Oscar.

[bmonk]

Kath can assimilate me any day.

If Kath adopts Atsali like we hope, this will make one heck of a family. Good luck sorting out that family tree in later generations.

I imagine it would look more like a mangrove swamp.

Mangrove swamp? no more like a banyan tree.

How come when I see this, I keep thinking of Mr. Raymond Luxury Yacht -- or maybe it's Mr. Throat Warbler Mangrove?

[NOTDilbert]

Since Atsali is in a Paranormal orphanage, there should be no problem placing her with a nudist genetic chimera mom with an Anasazi vampire grandmother. *edit* Like Granny Ogg said, million-to-one shots crop up nine times out of ten....

[Fairportfan]

"Ogg"

[Julie]

Seven of Nine, one of six, six of one, half a dozen of the other ...

"They say it's six of one and a half dozen of the other, but it's not; it's Six for Two and Two for nothing!"

25 or 6 to 4?

That reference earned a hug. *HUGS!* I'm very fond of Chicago.