Not killing off the Borg has to be one of the best Trek decisions. They’re such a perfect bad-guy.

The thing is, while Voyager does make the Borg entirely ineffective as villains, there are a lot of decent Voyager episodes with ex-Borg characters. Seven of Nine, despite being relegated to her eye candy sex-suit, arguably has the strongest character arc in the show. The Borg children were kind of fun. The episode…

Syndication also gave them a lot more leeway. That was basically the Netflix of the day where a lot of interesting shows had a chance to grow an audience without having to be a hit out of the gate. Babylon 5 similarly benefitted from being in syndication most of its run, while Crusade was cancelled before it even…

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Star Trek has succeeded DESPITE Roddenberry, and not because of him.

Not killing off the Borg has to be one of the best Trek decisions. They’re such a perfect bad-guy. They’re driven by such a seemingly noble cause and expand because they believe that their every action is correct. There’s no malice or anger or hatred and eyes. And they have legitimately succeeded in that purpose.

That is Q imitating Data.

It really is impressive how TNG managed to get past not only a really shakey first season but also a writers strike, something that either killed or crippled a lot of shows just a few years ago to become not only the gem in the Star Trek crown but also one of the most popular shows in general.

Yeah, he basically addmitted Blended was so he got paid to take his family to Africa.

Could you just be the designated reviewer of all Adam Sandler movies?

Never saw Billy Madison, but Happy Gilmore is one of my favorite dumb comedies.

“Announcing [Insert film title here]. Watch as Adam Sandler plays [Insert character name here], a [Insert distinguishing feature here] who just wants to [Insert generic goal here]. Along the way he’ll realise [insert generic epiphany here] and fall in love with [insert person with tits here], played by [seriously who…

The first Raspberry Pi

Eh, there are two people in this equation. My parents tried all this tiger crap on me and my sister too - they threatened to yank me out of the Ivy I was going to if I majored in something creative at one point, and I grudgingly went to law school because it was expected of me. But after I was on my own and paying my…

My Mom specifically told us that if we didn’t want to be doctors, we didn’t have to be doctors. When my brother and I both got liberal arts degrees (I got a bachelors in elementary education and my brother got an English degree), my Mom got asked by other Asian parents why she “let” us get those degrees.

Yeah, one of my best friends is from an Asian immigrant family and the parents told all the kids that they could be doctors, lawyers, or engineers but if they made any other career choices they would be shaming the family and driving their parents to an early grave. One child is a doctor, one is a lawyer, and one is…

This seems like a really weird thing to say. This isn’t an example of a stereotype. This is an example of the actual behavior the stereotype is meant to describe. It’s not the stereotype that was harmful here, it was the actual behavior.

People tell me that the “Model Minority” stereotype is harmless.
I think this present case is a good example of why that notion is wrong.

They understand how reservations work, but think that the word revolves around them and that the normal rules don’t apply.

“Oh, they’re a vegetarian, so they won’t eat anything that looks like meat.”

“Oh, they’re a vegetarian, so they won’t eat anything that looks like meat.”