And he was just named a Member of the British Empire by the queen! http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/latest/2008/12/31/obe-honour-for-actor-michael-sheen-115875-21005767/
Laser surgery doesn’t fix all prescriptions.
Today maybe, but what about 300 years in the future? They can beam down to a planet but can’t use the same technology to fix things? C’mon.
Hell, they couldn’t fix Geordie’s eyes 100 years later. It’s apparently a trickier problem than it sounds.
I guess because it hadn’t been invented by 1986… 
blimey!!! What’s next? Knighthood!!! (THIS STUPID FRAKKIN’ COMPUTER WILL NOT DO CAPS EXCEPT WHEN IT IS OF A MIND TO DO SO. TIME TO SWITCH FROM STEAM TO ELECTRICITY.)
S’alright. The forums software doesn’t let you do all caps anyway, even for humours effect.
Whew. For a moment I thought my old Univac had gone sentient on me.
And he was just named a Member of the British Empire by the queen!
Heh heh. You said “member”.
Perhaps they are really Lichens. If so, all the hollering in the world isn’t going to scare anybody. (Although, on the other hand some may find the concept of yelling lichens disturbing.)
Heh. “Rise of the Lichens” would probably be a pretty lame movie.
Perhaps suitable for showing in a high school biology class.