>Item four: Is Kate Detian? Are we supposed to know? If she is, why
>the stutter---I thought the retrovirus had an enhancing effect on the
>central nervous system, which I expected to cancel out such problems.

Yes. Since it is a dominant genetic trait and her father is a Detian - yes, you can infer that. And see other posts in this thread.

>Item six: What's this Big-O thing? Is it on cable? I don't get
>cable. ;p

A really cool 13 episode TV series from Bandai. Yes - it is/was on Cartoon Network. Coming to 4 DVDs over the remainder of the year - the first on 6/19.

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