You've sort of convinced me on the merit of the "un-emotional emotional" android stuff, but man, I just can't get past the dialogue in this episode. At another point Troi says: "Congratulations Data! It's a girl!" It's just too goofy.

Ha! Thanks. Just wanted to be clear who I was addressing. (it was me!)

That's cool. I kind of like it, but I also think it's bad.

Huh. Well OK. Ret-con to my previous statement: in the Star Trek future peace is held in such high regard that humans have forgotten how to do really dirty things like being spies, so in the rare case that they need a spy they, just, like, grab O'Brien who is awesome at everything. One could even say he is the true…

Well, agreed that no one else we met in DS9 that works for Star Fleet could have done it. But what about the implied thousands of off screen Star Fleet officers? Surely someone in Section 31 would be trained for this. And for that matter shouldn't this be a police thing and not a military thing? Or is this organized…

Now that's a list.

Oh absolutely! And what he contributes is the last book of SOIAF!

I mostly agree here, but would argue that this categories are for general fiction and not up to the task of measuring science-fiction. For example, a lot of the best episodes don't try to do any of these things. Measure of a Man for example is the contemplation of a idea that doesn't fit a category.

Assignment: Earth is terrible, but also awesome in the way that some times for something to be awesome it has to be terrible. Like to get that awesome sometimes you have to go past the rules of what defines quality in a normal situation.

I appreciate the concept of "Darmok" but don't really like the actual episode. On Star Trek, the aliens are often just funny looking humans or thinly veiled allegory and I like the idea of a species that uses language is a radically different and alien way. Too bad the execution isn't really up to the ideal.

I guess you and I also have had very different reactions to Atwood's books. It's been a decade since I read one. Maybe I should give her another chance. I think of her like the Ryan Adams of literature. She has written, like, a ton of books right? What would you say are the best few?

You and me have very different reactions to this one. Might as well be published in 1000 years as far as I cur. Aren't there enough Atwood books available in our time that I'm already not going to read? Is a rhetorical question I might ask myself.

You and me both. The holy living fuck!

Opps! I'm thinking of the TNG episode "Chain of Command"—There are four lights! You're right about Balance of Terror.

Same problem with the DS9 episodes where O'Brien infiltrates the space mafia. He is an engineer for F's sake!

It's a good one for sure. What kind of ruins it for me is wonder why a ship captian, a doctor, and a tactical officer are sent on a Navy seal style mission.,

#25 (The Offspring) is a good premise but a terrible episode! Troi speaks the single worst line of dialogue in all of Trek: "A friend for Worf!"

The sacredness of the holy trilogy has already been corrupted. Let JJ have at it, I say.

It's less surprising that Chase is gone and more surprising the he stuck around for as long as he did.

Using a word like "quiddity" is only pushing your luck even further. Even if it is a perfectly cromulent word. Humanity, I think, is the way to go; even with full knowledge that it sort of doesn't make sense in a literal way. Using the word "humanity" also makes the comment accessible in context even to the…