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Entry: Star Trek: Nemesis Theory - A817463
Author: Researcher Xer 2 - U201956

I came up with this theory by looking at a trailer. While it is temporary, I was wondering if you could post this temporarily on your Star Trek movies Entry until Nemesis, the next movie, comes out. Thank you!

"Spock - analysis!"

"Well captain, it appears that this lifeform has no concept of what 'peer review' is all about. It is really not his fault, captain."

"I see. But the fact remains, Spock, that this entry *can-not* remain in this quadrant."

"I understand that captain. But does he?"

Duhn, duhn, duh-uhn!

The real Nemesis theory would be an exciting entry. See eg http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~swanson/

Anyone?

Hi Xer 2,

i see you have not been around h2g2 too long, so i feel justified in giving you some advice:

peer review is not the place for this type of musing.

You can write anything you like (within reason and decency) on h2g2 but you oughtn't to enter it *all* into pr.

If you want to know what is and isn't considered 'guide material', check out Writing-Guidelines.

If you'd rather stick with your thing but fancy an audience/some_feedback, you could try Writing-Alternative.

your options are open, but the one place a piece like this shouldn't be, is peer review.

all the best with this and future writings,
spiff

A real nemesis theory would be exciting, but that source is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

it is a bunch of pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo collected together and them stretched all out of shape to fit the theory, rather than matching the theory to the evidence.

A particular problem that the link has is that it claims that few stars have been spectrascopically observed to see their velocity, but ignores the fact that the hiparcos satellite went up a number of years ago and observed the paralax of every bright object within something like a thousand light years.

Trying to say that something as bright as a star within a couple of light years would not have shown up in the hiparcos data (which is generally available) is just not credible (although it is just possible that noone has thought to look).

Hello Xer 2,

h2g2 consists of two basic parts when it comes to entries like this. The Edited Guide, which is what Peer Review is part of, is about factual entries. The unedited Guide, which is everything else, can be whatever you want it to be, including speculation. Just by writing this, you've got an entry in the unedited Guide and you don't need to do any more with it if you don't want to. If people search BBCi for Star Trek Nemesis, they'll find your entry regardless - so congratulations on your first entry into the unedited part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Earth Edition).

But as others have pointed out, this isn't suitable for the Edited Guide. If you could remove it from Peer Review (go to the Peer Review page, scan down the list of Conversations at the bottom until you find yours, then click 'Remove') and then once you've seen the film, if your theories turn out to be correct, then maybe we could have another look at it.



Jimster

Welcome to h2g2 !

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at post 2.

Xer 2 - DontPanic-ReviewForums#12 has instructions on how to remove this entry from peer review

-myre

Well, it still doesn't comply with the Writing-Guidelines... so perhaps a move back to the Entry?

Caper Plip