TOS was completely conceived by men who had gone to war. Gene Roddenberry, Gene Coon, Bob Justman, Matt Jefferies. These guys were Marines and navy men and air men. They fought. And yet their shows were pacifistic. They never considered war plots, only skirted them. They understood war and they avoided it.

I always felt Picard flipping out like that was out of character. He acts as if Data could be consciously trying to annoy him, or even harm him. A simple "Mr. Data, would you mind looking the other way" would have been enough. But startled shrieks of "What are you doing! Why are you looking at mmmmmeeeeeeee!!!!!!!" is…

Deep space exploration is dangerous in itself. Diplomatic missions often turn into shooting. If there is a ship in trouble in the Neutral Zone, the Enterprise will have to go. They tried to get around this by having saucer separation, but leaving the saucer lying around on impulse power in deep space is stupid.

Law number 52, never fuck the guy your cyber stalking
I don't know which is more annoying, Leffler's personal laws that she keeps quoting, or their bastard offspring - the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

"The crew has decided to stick together!" I almost vomited in my mouth.

The kiddy season
Just like season 4 was the recurring guest star season, season 5 is the kiddy season. We've got Disaster, the return of Alexander, and Data getting the same orphan sidekick treatment in "Hero Worship" that Worf got in "The Bonding".

The Entity was a psychopath
I never really ever bought the whole "misunderstood Didn't Lore already communicate with the Crystalline Entity? He offered it the colony in trade for his own survival. It new the Enterprise was a ship and that it's shields would be down and that there were little morsels on board. It…

Did that have to be 6 minutes?
I though this was going to be like one of janderson's edits. All he did was replace the game footage with angry birds and truncate the episode. The joke was ok the first time, but then it repeated 20 more times like an SNL sketch. It almost seemed like an ad for Angry Birds. Yawn!

Anyone notice?
Worf is looking right at Sela on screen when she says to start torturing him. He doesn't find anything interesting about 1) that she just confirmed Romulan involvement and 2) that she's freaking Tasha Yar.

Yeah. Like I said, I don't think the writers were racists. I think they were lazy. And laziness doesn't cut it when you have several hundred hours of screen time to work with. Then it just becomes bad writing.

Note to Alurin, if it sounds condescending then it probably is. Especially when you're completely wrong. I think I know history a bit better than you. I said it sounded more like Germany than Japan. I didn't say only German's have Chancellors. The German Chancellor prior to WWII was a nonelected official who presided…

You know, the only character in all of TNG forward who was really realistically portrayed was Kaylar who never grew up around Klingons and didn't give a shit about them. And in a large way Jono, from "Suddenly Human". I have to give strong marks for both those characters. But even Kaylar was prone to animalism and…

The tea ceremony is from the second season, before the Viking Klingons were established. The government is a mix of many things and none of them are Japanese. There is no Klingon Emperor until the Kahless Clone. There is a chancellor and a high council which sounds very pre-Nazi Germany to me.

Thank you, on behalf of the people who like things and can't stand up for them except to say they are "good". Which makes it odd that you are reading a criticism web site.

Thank you for that moving speech on behalf of the Deep Space 9 community.

@alrin. Dude, TNG Klingons are not Samurai. Samurai we're emotionally restrained, artistic, and subtle. Vikings are WARRIORS! They believe in a place where warriors go when they die (Valhalla/Stovokor). They wear furs and horns! The drink and fight and sing songs! Come on, man. It's completely obvious. Yes, the…

It's all down hill from here.
Redemption marks the point where Star Trek as a whole looses itself and starts focusing on areas that Zack has mentioned are it's weakest points: Continuity building, romance, and serious stories. When I say "serious stories" I should really say "stories that are not fun". That pretty…