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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Granted, I have not yet gone any farther with that investigation than confirming that Groombridge 1816 is a real star described in Stephen Groombridge's A Catalog of Circumpolar Stars. I'm planning to refer the matter out to the Astronomy department at one of the state universities I have ties to, though I haven't had an opportunity to do so yet due to some work complications.
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    Bear in mind, those measurements were taken in 1806-1816 using purely analog equipment so they're not going to align well with modern digital measurements taken two centuries later. Like I said, obscure... that one fan blog assumed, like you did, that the star didn't exist based on mainstream search engine results and nothing else. Eden's not in a binary system, so it's definitely not Groombridge 34AB.
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    No, it's not a typo. It is Groombridge 1816 not 1618. You won't find much about it on Google or Wikipedia because it is a relatively obscure star, but it is a real star noted/codified on page 53 of Stephen Groombridge's A Catalog of Circumpolar Stars (1838). EDIT: It should be noted that only a tiny handful of Groombridge catalog numbers are well-documented under their original catalog numbers. Groombridge's catalog covers 4,243 different stars. Exactly two of them have Wikipedia pages.
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    In a completely non-serious tribute to my childhood. "Trukk not munky". Who'd have thought the Transformers movies would be going on long enough to start mining Beast Wars and/or Beast Machines for content? XD
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    ... I feel like this is one title that really won't make the transition to live-action gracefully. Kinda like Dragon Ball.
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    "Hold on, it gets dumber" seems to be the theme for The Witch from Mercury. The entirety of the show's 7th episode can be summed up as Miorine pulling a K-2SO and saying "Congratulations, you are being employed. Please do not resist." At least when Wing and my boy Heero are involved, events have causes and consequences. In The Witch from Mercury, things just... happen. There's no rhyme or reason to it.
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    Now THAT is something I wasn't expecting! I guess now that Maurice Leblanc's works are in the public domain we can actually have the Arsene Lupin (the First) in Lupin III.
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    The best part of "Rascals" isn't even in "Rascals"... It's in DS9's "Bar Association": Not only is "Rascals" the first TNG episode Odo references... Odo had that PADD just sitting there. WAITING. In case Worf came in to complain about security!
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    I'm not sure interconnecting those two would work... they don't really have any themes in common except having been horror episodes. The parasites from "Conspiracy" were originally a part of a larger story arc, but they ended up orphaned from it because the budget wouldn't stretch to doing proper insectoid aliens and the idea was workshopped into the Borg. The aliens from "Schisms" were just this weird one-off thing that shows up, menaces a few crew members on the Enterprise, and then disappear and are never mentioned again.
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    Has rumor said what it's reportedly about? I can't imagine anyone wants to see a post-sequel-trilogy story.
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    Best news I've had all day.
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    Eh... he's had his turn at it a fair few times. It mainly happens in the RPGs like the Paper Mario series and Mario & Luigi series. It was at its most blatant in Paper Mario: the Thousand Year Door thanks to the sheer quantity of irreverent comedy in that game. Luigi just gets hit with it a lot harder since the Paper Mario games often made him out to be the hero of another, much lamer, story and then he got a solo series devoted to his ghost phobia (Luigi's Mansion).
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    ... there's really nothing explicit there to censor. I have no idea why people keep acting like there is. 🙄 Crunchyroll does not censor the shows they license for streaming. Granted, there are titles in Crunchyroll's library that are censored but that censorship was done by the studios that produced the shows to make them suitable for broadcast in Japan. There either isn't an uncensored version available or Crunchyroll hasn't yet upgraded the version of the show that they have in their streaming library to the uncensored home video version.
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    The most likely (in-universe) reason that countermeasures aren't used more often is that many types of missiles used in the series have multiple guidance systems. Especially the long-ranged missiles, which often have three separate guidance systems working in concert... usually radar (bolstered by powerful ECCM to overcome active stealth), infrared, and TV. Flares would be the most useful countermeasure, since micro-missiles tend to be exclusively infrared-guided.
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    While they're seldom shown being used, VFs do have countermeasure dispensers for things like chaff and flares. The one instance that sticks out in my memory most clearly is in Macross Plus. During Isamu and Guld's dogfight on Earth, there is a shot of Isamu using chaff containers against some missiles Guld launches. Tech manuals like Master File and Sky Angels do mention countermeasure dispensers for chaff and flares as a standard feature. The VF-1's countermeasure dispenser is in the fighter's "backpack", while other VFs keep theirs in the legs.
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    Five'll get you twenty they forgot the fleet exists.
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    "Schisms" was a weird one. One of the few times Star Trek has tried to do more or less straight-up horror. They never figure out who the aliens are, why they're capturing people and subjecting them to all of those invasive medical experiments, or really manage to stop them from carrying on. In a way, it feels like they should've come back to that one at some point. Kind of like those parasites from TNG season 1 that were teased as a continuing threat and then were never mentioned again.
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    It's beautifully animated... but my brain is never going to stop saying that the characters sound wrong after 30 years of Charlet Martinet's Mario.
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    At least in the films, Star Wars has always restricted the roles of alien characters to sidekicks, supporting characters, and background extras. I suspect that has a lot to do with Star Wars opting to make its aliens more physically alien. Star Trek can get away with making alien characters regulars in its main cast because its favored approach to aliens is the humanoid "rubber forehead alien". The light prosthetics and body paint they use minimally obscures the actors faces, so they can still emote like a normal actor. It's relatively easy on the actors, unless they develop an allergy to the materials. More "alien" aliens require either digital post-production animation or heavy makeup and prosthetics that are extremely time-consuming, expensive, and hard on the actors. I've heard it said that actors who play those roles tend to ask for more money in casting because of how time consuming, unpleasant, and claustrophobic working in heavy prosthetics is. Easier by far to keep aliens in the background "for local color" and leave the action to the humans. (That and Star Wars made a lot of its more recent aliens kinda racist... the Trade Federation, Jar-Jar, Watto, etc. I'd really rather not see something like that again. Another one of those would make it two steps forward and three steps back in terms of representation.) Yeah. Cassian and Andor in general benefit heavily from defying the usual Star Wars formula in favor of more nuanced storytelling. I'd hate to see them compromise that.
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    ... still not the weirdest question I've gotten in that line of inquiry. Hard to say, though, since Klan Klan's height... varies. If we were to assume that her official line art represents her correct scaling, she should not be particularly large or heavy. Line art published on the Macross Chronicle Character Sheet for her wingmen Raramia and Nene shows that, in her normal/giant state she is pretty exactly between those two in terms of height. We know how tall they are, so splitting that difference is easy enough. Miclone Nene is 170cm and miclone Raramia is 165cm. So a Klan Klan who was halfway between them in height would be 167.5cm tall... or 5 feet 6 inches for the users of Imperial measurement. Klan is as athletic as you'd expect a professional soldier to be, so we'd be able to safely assume she's probably of average weight for her height. That's about 61.7kg or 136lb. (I checked this against a lady friend who has similar proportions to Klan, and it more or less tallies +/- about 6lb and 2 inches of height.) That'd make "Macro Klan" around 8.375m tall and around 7,712.5kg in weight. Of course, of all the Zentradi characters thus far her size as fluctuated the most. In the hangar scene where she's first introduced she's around the correct height of approximately 8.375m but in a number of other scenes she's depicted as being MUCH larger... including one scene where she's arguing with Michael's curiously emotive VF-25G battroid in space and seems to be as tall or even slightly taller than it is (~14.53m).
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    The oldest version of the lore mentions that the ARMD-class was originally conceived as a space station that would serve as a floating dock for space warships and an airbase for space fighters operating in Earth's planetary defenses. The intent was to park them in Earth's geostationary orbit and near any facilities at the Lagrange points as the backbone of Earth's space-based defenses. The UN Forces repurposed the design as a space aircraft carrier after plans for a much larger 800m-class carrier fell so far behind it was judged to be unrecoverable. Later versions of the lore kept pretty much everything except the proposed and subsequently cancelled 800m-class carrier. Both old and new versions of the lore indicate the UN Spacy's L5 Frontline Station is the original design the ARMD-class was derived from. Most statistics involving the Zentradi are a little shocking. That statistically average Zentradi woman? She weighs 7,750kg. Oh, it's everywhere. 40 Eridani is the location of Vulcan in Star Trek and of Richese and Ix in Dune, for instance. Proxima Centauri has an Earth colony orbiting it in Babylon 5, a Starfleet ship yard is there in Star Trek, it was the destination of the titular ship in Event Horizon, and the all-Newtype colony-turned-generation-ship Dandelion c. UC 0653 in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam: Outside Story. It's also home to an Earth colony named Liberte in Southern Cross. Alpha Centauri is one suspected candidate for the original homeworld of humanity in Asimov's Foundation series, the location of the first human extrasolar colony in Larry Niven's Known Space series, it's the destination of the Jupiter 2 in Lost in Space, home to one of Earth's pre-Federation colonies in Star Trek, etc. etc. Epsilon Eridani is the star Glorie orbits in Southern Cross, is home to a Federation colony in Star Trek, it's an Earth colony in Halo, etc.
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    Yeah... nobody wants the return of a minstrel show-like comic relief character ala Jar-Jar Binks, and giving Cassian an alien buddy he had to translate for would not only slow the plot down a bit it'd make him feel like a low-rent Han Solo (like the Han Solo in Solo).
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    Not just that... look at the price tag on those shoes in "Star Date". It's mostly written in Zentradi, but the red text there says these shoes are on sale and the price is 3,679,000. The lack of a decimal point suggests that the Frontier fleet's currency is something akin to Yen. If we were to assume that was Japanese Yen, at the time the show was made the exchange rate to US Dollars would make that one pair of heels cost a whopping $35,318. Those shoes cost more than a new car, by a considerable margin. The amount of force those heels would be under would require special materials similar to those used in starship hulls or armor plating to withstand the forces of walking, there'd be no hope at all of being able to walk on the grass, and the sidewalks would have to be specially reinforced to handle the astonishing pressures involved. It's not like they've completely hung you out to dry... there's Ernest Johnson, Mirage, Mylene, Milia, Komilia, etc. Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Eridani, and 40 Eridani are like THE low-hanging fruit of science fiction exoplanet star systems. Proxima Centauri is probably the most used and abused in all of sci-fi due to it being closer to Earth than any other star besides Sol. I can imagine that Macross's creators would want to avoid reaching for that particular low-hanging fruit, and instead went for creating a fictional exoplanet orbiting a real but rather obscure star Groombridge 1816. I'm not sure why they picked that particular star, I'd have to reach out to an actual astronomer to figure out if there were anything special about it.
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    While the final acronym is almost certainly for the sake of the aforementioned lame joke, the inspiration is again a LOT more mundane and obvious. The ARMD-class was originally conceived as a combination of a space station airbase for Valkyrie squadrons in orbit and an Auxiliary Floating Dock for servicing smaller UN Spacy warships (e.g. the Oberth-class). Its design was inspired by real world Auxiliary Floating Docks (being one turned upside-down), and its hull classification symbol of "ARMD" is inspired by those of the real world mobile Auxiliary Repair Dock (Medium) for servicing destroyers, submarines, and other light escorts which was "ARDM".
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