But Vulcans, Kirk, and all those quotes have a known origin to everyone who says them. They are inseparable from Trek. I'm saying that "Borg" can be used as a reference to someone who's never heard of Trek and they'll get it. It's bigger than the show it came from.

LOL, I saw the Enterprise explode and then realized who wrote this episode. A trip to Memory Alpha confirmed it: If the story has a lame resolution and the Enterprise explodes somewhere in it its Brannon Braga.

I can't think of any other right now, but I think "Borg" is the only term in all of Star Trek that transcended the show in zeitgeist. Borg will always mean an unstoppable force or something that consumes everything around it to make it its own and people don't/won't acknowledge or remember the origin.

Second Chances is basically just the B plot from Best Of Both Worlds part 1 extended to be an entire episode. Right down to the poker game in which Riker gets accused of playing it safe. Only difference being he wins this time. But it's pretty sad for his character development that he can be in the same conflict of…

CP, BSG was better than DS9. Don't kid yourself.

You don't have to do a "gay issues" episode like its some kind of disease or problem. You can just acknowledge that homosexuals exist. I said this in Richelieu's other thread: Write a heterosexual romance. Now change the gender of one of them. Ta da!

Not really. Remember Patterns of Force?

phodreaw, Jesus practically invented the afterlife. There was no hell in Judaism. That's all Jesus.

Oh, and he created their afterlife mythos. He has more in common with Jesus or the Buddha than you give credit.

Except Kahless cried so much he raised the ocean level and made a sword out of his own hair that he plunged with his bare hands into molten lava and then said he would resurrect. Kahless is a divine character.

Yes, but our scientists aren't all stupid jingoists like the rest of us. The klingon scientist was the same pushy growly idiot as the rest of them.

I don't think Kilingons hold scientists in high regard
You know, because you can make disruptors and battle ships without science. And, of course, even the scientist Klingons growl and fight with their hands. Makes you wonder how people this dumb and violent ever got passed hitting eachother with clubs.

You know, there's plenty of romance that's organically sewn into all of JJ's productions. I can't think of any that were homosexual. There were no gay people on Lost that I remember. I don't understand how having a gay romance would be distracting if it was played just like a straight one. I've got an idea. Make Sulu…

Crank: He can't discuss it. The answers you can expect to get from any Lost Finale fan is 1) you where never going to be happy, 2) did you want to be spoon fed, 3) It was about characters not mystery.

That's why we refer to them as the single entity of "B&B".

@Ghost, I think Braga is a pretty sure bet to point fingers at. I don't know if you've seen "Fast Forward", but it's as much a turd fest as Voyager and Enterprise.

I'm actually having a very strange conversation on TrekBBS about whether the Baku should have been removed or not in Insurrection. I only saw that movie once in the theater and hated it. I can't tell why I'm bothering.

@Joe Propinka: It's certainly better than the Augment Virus.

Cause and Effect was way too repetitive and relied on the rediculous "death by slight nick" over and over again. Parallels starts the Troi/Worf romance. First Contact is just yucky, but we'll get into that later. Nothing in Voyager is redeemable.

Don't you know that a bunch of pictures printing from an SD card at Walgreens with hologram boarders is much more important than a one of a kind relic that's worth billions of quatloos? Come on, man!