Again, this is why I want Bryan Fuller's Angela Bassett/Rosario Dawson Star Trek series to be a thing.

I miss Delenn.

Voyager's definitely a mixed bag, but the Janeway/Seven stuff is about as good as Trek gets in this regard, and having Janeway herself was a pretty bold move - she was a woman lead in a genre series in the days before Xena or Buffy. I actually can't think off-hand if she has any predecessor. Help me out there nerds.

I won't rewatch DS9 until the Blu-Rays come out. I'm currently on TNG.

…wait, really?

You were correct. Ron Moore confirmed this in one of those interviews he used to give on chat rooms.

"Spock's Brain" is a camp classic, and arguably the best bad episode of Trek ever.

Eh, the script is said to be less racist because it said all the servants were black but the main characters weren't.

…I had that episode on VHS. (I bought any Trek VHS I could find and watched it a million times because Trek.)

My pick for the TNG episode is always, always "Up The Long Ladder."

On the other hand, there's a credible argument that this dissonance - taking farcical scenes and treating them seriously - is one of the many reasons this episode is terrible.

Hell, Michael Piller worked hard to make the script for Star Trek: Insurrection a personal story for him, one he thought would be great.

I just know that if I think long enough I'll remember some errant officer who got hooked on space hookahs or something (probably one of those rogue lunatic officers Kirk always ran into) but right now my mind is blank.

That's one explanation given, though never confirmed. The other is that Paris is a mildly more sympathetic version of the character - Locarno went to New Zealand jail because Wesley ratted him out, while Paris came clean by himself.

IIRC Chakotay was also the character who said they couldn't afford to lose another shuttle in like season one or two.

I also loved the counter about how many people were still alive.

Oh we did, we did.

Voyager lost like over two hundred shuttles over the course of the series. I just know there's an exact number somewhere but I cba to look it up, but people arguing over it losing too many shuttles was a very frequent complaint (and then they built their own, even cooler shuttle, the Delta Flyer - AND THEY LOST THAT…

Besides - and with utmost respect to Zack Handlen's stellar, top-drawer DS9 reviews - I feel the definitive take-down of Profit and Lace has already been written by Albert Walker, from back in the days that Agony Booth was a good website:

They blew up Deep Space Nine in a Futurama episode. On the commentary, the writers said that they liked Deep Space Nine when Worf joined the cast, and David X. Cohen has said that "Whispers" is his favourite Star Trek episode.