He made a pretty good Cardassian — that is, a pretty villainous Cardassian — in “Second Skin,” a third-season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Somehow, when my wife and I watched that episode last year, he was almost immediately recognizable under all the prosthetics, even though I hadn’t thought of him in…

The Delenn scene I’ve thought about frequently for the last couple of decades — and to be fair, also misremembered for a lot of that time — was this one:

I will point out this reminiscence from Stan Sakai about Jack Kirby’s feelings about Nazis:

As much as I’ve enjoyed Carpenter and Quincannon stories by Bill Pronzini, I’m not sure why The Paradise Affair is included here. It’s a historical mystery; I’ve never seen anything fantastical or science fictional in previous stories. Is this a hint or an oversight?

Maybe that’s just the kind of representation you get when you hire a lawyer you sexually harassed when he was in drag:

From out of space came a runaway planet, hurtling between the earth and moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Man’s civilization was cast in ruins! It was in all the papers back then.

I’m a bigger fan of the Hardy Boys than any middle-aged man should be, and I can’t say this particularly looks like the Hardy Boys. I mean, the Hardys as outsiders, a mother who may actually be doing something, the cops not doing the brothers’ bidding, and the huge age difference make the show not feel like the Hardys…

Do you look like a boxer? Biff (real name Allen Hooper) got his nickname because he was a boxer in the very early stories.

But Holly Dolly’s true strengths come from country carols not yet pummeled into our collective consciousness, like a sweet, twangy duet with Willie Nelson (“Pretty Paper”)

I’d recommend a short story by Fritz Leiber, “Midnight by the Morphy Watch,” which follows a similar theme of greatness and madness among chess greats. I won’t spoil it, but it involves an amateur chess player gaining a pocket watch once owned by Paul Morphy, an American acknowledged as unofficial world chess champion…

Well, he was ... but yes, that’s the guy.

For anyone who was confused, as I was, “Bob Harris” is Bob Harras, the former Marvel editor-in-chief who was appointed EIC at DC in 2010. (The typo is in the THR story as well — well, the second reference to Harras is “Harris,” but not the first.)

The Christopher Priest run on Black Panther (late ‘90s, early 21st century) claimed Wakanda had deep-running tensions between Wakanda’s technological urban culture and the traditional rural culture. T’Challa might have been able to make democratic reforms among the urbanites, but those who lived outside city were dead…

If the XFL had existed a quarter century ago, would the Rock exist? Dwayne Johnson played football at the University of Miami, and in 1995, he signed with the Canadian Football League but was cut before the season. If another football league existed at that time, might he have caught on there and never gone into the…

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern came out last November. Is there a reason why it’s listed here — an updated edition, or the paperback version?

Any mention of “How Do You Talk to an Angel” by the Heights will always make me smile. The song was the theme to a Fox TV show called The Heights, which followed a band called the Heights — what a coincidence! — and “How Do You Talk to an Angel” lasted longer on the charts than The Heights did on the air. (The Heights…

The kids are also wearing gloves, even though no one is letting them near food and no one is sitting in the restaurant. I assume Gene has made them part of a (different) musical performance he’s planning, Louise instantly understands their practicality from a prank standpoint, and Tina would be too anxious to do the…

Nixon isn’t dead. He’s just preparing for his really big comeback, and then you won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around any more.

I’ve thought TPM should have been filmed and released as a serial — it would have acknowledged a form that’s one of Lucas’s prime inspirations, it would eliminate a lot of the flab, and it would have been an amazing boon for movies in general at the time. Also, I think Lucas’s moviemaking would have been better served…

According to Wikipedia, which gets its data from https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en, the US has passed its World War I / double Vietnam military mortality as of June 13. According to the CDC, we’re still a little short: 114,625. By their measurement, then, we will reach that milepost — or grave marker, take your…