It was a completely crazy reversal of fortune (followed closely by Viper doing the same thing)

It would be nice, but I think half the problem is that Romero is just Zombie Guy to people now, and don't know how great stuff like THE CRAZIES, KNIGHTRIDERS, and MARTIN is. He's got more reach. He's very much a prisoner of a couple movies he did.

I am nothing if not a passing-through chaser of 1990s syndicated curiosities.

Shout Factory released the final season of THE PRACTICE on DVD last year. It's bare bones, but it's great to finally see those episodes, and compare and contrast.

It was serendipitous timing. I think it definitely gave the show more encouragement to work with the traditional Trek toolbox and blend the Dominion arc more into that tapestry.

It was a crazy time, and it lasted maybe. . .3 years (I wanna say 1992-95), because no sooner did the syndication boom happen than UPN and WB and the smaller networks choked it out.

Cancer, keep your fuckin' hands off Carpenter and Romero.

"HIIIIS FAVOURITE MOVIE IS TURNER AND HOOOOOCH!"

It was in the sense that it wasn't doing TNG numbers, but when you consider that TNG had first-run syndication essentially all to itself for most of its run and by the time DS9 was a running concern, EVERYONE was trying to cut into that pie (Paramount actually being in the position of competing with itself) then . .…

And then he just shows up in Nemesis because fuck DS9, apparently.

Josh is amazingly sharp on the Cinematic Titanic shows. You feel like with a little time on the main show, they might have brought that out eventually.

The episode with Betty White where he goes home to defend his friend from a murder charge is great. The end cuts so deep.

I don't know that Worf really brought that much to DS9—for a long time the show really grapples with what do with him now that he's here and succeeds only fitfully in accomplishing that for awhile.

*Vorlon Jukebox Noises*
I have always been here

Well, they had one, but apparently Undertaker beat no one at Wrestlemania this year in the new timeline.

It's kinda sad that RVD wasn't there just long enough for Stewart to do the ". . .ON WEED" thing.

Yeah, I'm not really sure, long-term what the point of the Undertaker/Lesnar program is. The streak is broken, and that's that. That bell can't be un-rung, and since part of the story of the WM30 match was (accidentally or no) was that Undertaker was up against an unstoppable force and just spent himself against it ,…

Or they always coulda just punched each other out. I can't remember the last time I saw a double-KO in a wrestling match. You have both guys taken to the limit and it coulda gone either way and now there HAS to be a reckoning.

And then he popped back up to superkick Sting in the face and vanish for ages again. He never really gets any kind of comeuppance or has to account for it.

Yeah, I much prefer the Animals versions—there's a certain polish and clarity to them that the initial versions don't have.