If your AIDS episode doesn't have Willford Brimley and Haley Joel Osment in it, it's not really an AIDS episode: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

The thing about all Enterprise's adventures in pre-technology is that most of the technology was invented as a storytelling short cut: How do we visit exciting planets cheaply? Transporter effect! How do we talk with aliens? Universal transporter! Why doesn't the ship blow up but what can we use as a sliding scale of…

Or get hit a lot. His go to battle plan is the Rocky 3. At one point in the Ferengi episode, his cunning plan is to tell the Ferengi to take everything they want and leave. It's only when they start talking taking the women into sex slavery that Archer decides maybe he should stop them.

"These are the Voyages" is offensive to fans of the franchise. "Profit and Lace" is offensive to all of humanity. That's the difference.

Just coming out of Enterprise Season 1, I think I figured out what should have been the answer to the whole "which species are around but not anymore" question, especially given they touch on it a little (and I remember them getting closer to it in the Journey to Babel prequel in season 4). Basically make it an origin…

I liked to come up with the twist that at one point (probably that one time when he was competent) it was actually Sisko that leaped into Archer from existing outside linear time in the wormhole with the Prophets after DS9 ended. Come on Trek novelists—give me Quantum Sisko!

I let stuff like Genesis and even Threshold get away with the Evolution-stupid because fundamentally it's just an excuse for some weird-ass gonzo body horror. It's when they think they're making an enlightened message episode revolving around Chipotle teaming up with Dinosaur Galileo or turning the ship's doctor into…

Creative fatigue, and creator comfort. Bermaga had been involved with Trek by that point for over a decade, and they and UPN were both happy to churn out what 'worked' over on TNG over and over, even to diminishing returns. The writing reeks of people being comfortable rather than turning out something new or…

I though the set design looked great and felt really nicely lived in.
My annoyance with "Enterprise" the ship comes down to the writing.
Saying you're 100 years in the past, and everything is new and not what
we're used to doesn't matter when you do things like sub in "Hull
plating" for "Shields" when you're talking…

Having just gotten past Shockwave, I think I've figured out the big problem with the Temporal Cold War stuff. The thing about Time Travel is that it's something that realistically breaks all the rules of the game. It essentially gives you an infinite save point in life—screw up here, we can go back and fix it. To make…

More incompetent captain: Gob or Archer?

Ironically, an actual TGIF theme song worked surprisingly well.

Yeah, except the Bajorans actually had a defined culture. And weren't sculpted out of wood.

The thing with Mayweather is that his defining characteristic is that he grew up in space, with the freighter crews, and so none of this is new to him, but then they cast and play him (when at all) like a "Gee whiz!" newbie. That role really needed a Colm Meaney type (even if a young Colm Meaney type) to give some…

The thing about Sato, watching Season 1, is how many storylines revolve around T'Pol or the rest of the crew essentially saying, "God Hoshi! You've heard the other species talk for like an hour, and you still can't understand their entire language and idioms? Worst Communications Officer Ever! Why do you suck so…

Here's the thing about Enterprise: You can make pop song opening titles, have the ship look more utilitarian, use earlier technology. try and cast a big three that's deliberately ripping off Kirk/Spock/Bones, not use the word Star Trek, and it doesn't matter if your writers treat it as Voyager Season 8, with less…

Having just watched the first season of Enterprise, it's painfully obvious that it WANTS to be the most sexed-up of the shows, but also painfully obvious that it has no better understanding of sex than an eight year old boy. The whole rubbing gel on each other in the 'decontamination chamber,' various episodes with…

And yet, in that one Risa episode where she has a perfectly pleasant weekend fling, she's more attractive than Blaylock's overly rubber self was all season.

I generally hate the Plinkett stuff anyway—it's all exceedingly negative and unpleasant to listen to (and the misogynist crap around some of his reviews insufferable). Give me SF Debris, who can tear into crap with the best of them, but is still willing to actually engage with the material.

Clearly Nicholas Cage had the devil's lasagna for dinner.