@avclub-35c76c2cf6a1f61aacd6e62b771c4cea:disqus pretty sure that's how Kit ended up with a knife in his head… :)

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus ooh, decided to lead with fighting words, eh? All right, bring it! :)

OK, enough, enough! I just woke up, I need coffee before I can respond to all this nonsense about gender roles in Shakespeare. Although I'll just say you need to reread Harold Bloom if that's what you think.

@avclub-b894e4330aeaa46a373292d17c62984d:disqus thanks, I'd been trying to use [ ] also

@avclub-b894e4330aeaa46a373292d17c62984d:disqus *MORE SPOILERS* I noticed on my last rewatch of DS9 (I just happened to do one before I found AV Club) that they reboot most of the main alien cultures at the end of the series. I wondered if they did this to free up the writers for whatever series followed it. I don't…

I thought the best part was the shaking-to-pretend-turbulence until I saw Muppet Data and Muppet Crusher, and the TOS matte-painting background. Priceless!

I'm going to have a smidge of awkwardness with everyone's comments once she arrives on the show— she's my husband's best friend's former roommate! (I haven't met her, but they both speak very highly of her.)

and yet that's a pretty good solution.

@avclub-bd847fd835b2c6025557898b6aff7b2d:disqus Hubris.

Interestingly, I watched a science show years ago positing about alien life, and one scientist had that very theory: if we moved out to other planets, the second generation would begin to adapt to the environment, and the third generation would begin to reject Earth-centered fashion and culture, and "eventually it…

@avclub-4b287f908bc71183ecd837b69d417c1a:disqus How do you *do* the italics formatting? (My noobness showing here.)

re: eyeroll, me too. But what really confused me is, if they set the gravity to what she was used to at home (which isn't "zero", right, but just really low?) wouldn't she have just been walking around normally while *Bashir* floated/bounced?

My husband is rationalizing this as being the fashion, which those aliens have plastic surgery to get. Fashion is often nonsensical. Hey, I'll go with it… :)

@Murc "…it's written that way to say "Hey, in the future maybe we won't all be constantly trying to murder each other in order to get just a little more scratch for ourselves, and that will be pretty awesome."

It reminded me of Norman spying on Marion in PSYCHO. (Although when he did it it was a small peephole, tho still behind a painting iirc.)

I like "Sasquatch/Wendigo/Yeti" — as if they don't know WHAT the hell is in that box… :)

I completely agree that the stakes are so high here as to render the metaphor nearly moot. (Perhaps a better one might have been dodging the draft ala Vietnam?) However, as I said, for me it was about how one *feels* and so doesn't have to line up with what it *is*.

@avclub-2a6ac9e5324952e36b40237cf2fcdad8:disqus I think you would like this play: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I think he was worried *because* everyone was accounted for. i.e., "So who messed with the controls?! Did someone survive?…"

I think the upstairs person was Marty (? stoner guy) rerouting power to that elevator. He said he used a maintenance override. (Husband and I were thinking along the same lines when he remembered that.)