The argument should be revisited then when we hit that episode in season 7.

Okay this post is a bit late, but I was very busy last night and when I finally came home I knew I was a bit too exhausted to actually write it out.

I feel the episode is not anti-Roddenberry so much as pushing the envelope that Roddenberry created. A pure 'grime and moral hazards' show would be Battlestar Galactica, and as much as I love that show, In the Pale Moonlight would not make as much sense there as this is predicated on it being such an unusual choice…

Okay so if the British are the Klingons, the Federation is the French and the United States are the Romulans… does this make the Ottoman Empire the Cardassians? Because I feel the Dominion fit Germany better here and the Cardassians are kind of an empire on the way out trying to shore themselves up with a strategic…

I would also point to the English language interview they did for Den of Geek, if anyone is interested:
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv…

Right, but I just feel Returned is not invested in its mysteries the way those other shows were (even Lost, which mostly just used its mysteries as plot levers - a way to torture the characters further, not interesting in and of itself.)

I'd say it's more that Gene's setup allows for almost no internal drama. The drama is external - typically, aliens provide drama. The planet of the week that the Enterprise pops over to. Or that planet of humans that Tasha Yar is from. The Federation is kind of a paradise, but it's not a paradise we actually spend a…

STID really is all spectacle first. I feel this problem is underlined with Carol Marcus. It's clear the writers want to do two (or three) things with her - firstly, to provide a character with an emotional tie to the movie's other villain, Admiral Marcus, so his death matters, secondly to provide the crew with one…

Oh I agree Jonathan Frakes is a decent-to-good director (I've liked his directing work sort of since his Star Trek days, he's a very competent TV director and his Falling Skies episode was a standout of that show's season.)

What I'm garbedly saying is it actually got an extremely brief shout-out in the best 40 shows list. It has never been covered here (just season premieres and finales) so I'd figure a regular season coverage an extremely remote possibility, but I thought I'd just ask anyway because I actually really like talking about…

I also love it.

In a sense they did, given how Worf's relationship to DS9 was handled in Insurreciton and Nemesis.

All the setup we would have needed was 'Dominion War, so Sisko and Picard take down a cunning Vorta played by F. Murray Abraham in a role that is not a waste of his talents.'

They were all included, just part of a group. They did grouped articles for Rectify/The Returned/Top of the Lake and Girls/New Girls too, as well as an earlier article on a number of sketch comedy shows.

Let's put it this way: Falling Skies' Jonathan Frakes' directed episode > SHIELD's Jonathan Frakes' directed episode.

Not even remotely. I'm not expecting any Joe Michael Straczynski stuff fro this series.

I have the feeling she's more like Duck, a character doomed no matter what we do (I did tell Carlos he needs to accept she needs to learn how hard the world is though.)

Breaking Bad's ratings for its final eight episodes were actually pretty huge; it's a show that has grown its audience year after year.

No, Gameological is way more polite and civil compared to this.

I did not, but you're right, it did air part of season two in 2013 and would thus be eligible. I have considered watching it because of Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe's involvement (two veterans of Deep Space Nine.)