Lurky:  Really enjoyed your post about recognizing the benefits of modern medicine despite its excesses.  I'm involved in the medical field and I find myself getting a little defensive of even the fields like the "labor and delivery" portion of OB-GYN when people correctly point out that there are issues.  You…

Even later than the last person who was late to the party, but good to see some like-minded folks.  Canada's character was always my favorite thing about "Rules Of Engagement," and I was baffled by the dislike he got from the original reviewers.  Now the idea of Klingon society with people walks of life other than…

I'd been thinking that I always wondered how Bajor would react to Sisko's rival conveniently disappearing in this episode.  This post reminded me that that was actually Phil Farrand - what *I* always wondered about was how Bajor would react to "Battle Lines."

One bit of commentary that I read and have never been able to un-think since is that post-Season 3, Bajor is written as if for all intents and purposes it has about five actual people living on it.

I Will Probably pretty much explains what goes wrong with an episode like this one from a Quark-centric perspective.  I know it's been said before, but Quark is a great side character, whether he's being an asshole who's tolerable because he's only on screen long enough for a few one-liners, or whether he's being…

One thing these reviews have done is made me really interested in following some of Zack's trains of thoughts about Worf, because I feel like he understands the character way better than I ever have (never been very excited about him).  I can;t say I ever thought about it that way, but I'm intrigued by the notions of…

Then we got BSG, to make our overall space-opera portrayal of smoking fair and balanced.

My entire knowledge about this topic is that there's a line in _Citizen Kane_ about a character's doctor telling him he'll live longer if he stops smoking.

Well, I did hear that they took half a pitch and then went out drinking.  Or at least the freelancer pitching the premise was going on about whatever, and says "and then Odo and Quark and Rom are the Roswell aliens…" and Behr or someone stopped him and said "stop!  That's all we need."  Maybe they should have bothered…

Yeah, with a syndicated show, I don't know how to interpret the MA dates.  Maybe it varied by market, with "Starship Down" coming out on an unusual date and some stations sitting on it for an extra week?  Or something?  Reviewers at the time (Lynch, Jammer, etc.) list SD as airing 11/22 (and Lynch references LGM in…

The bad taste in one's mouth that having Dukat as an ally brings is one of the things I like best about "Indiscretion."

(mini barely-consequential spoilers)

Cyia Batten's Ziyal is the character, as far as I'm concerned.  Then the writers threw in a few other much less interesting characters with the same name and background.

Zack:  I will actually read the review in a moment, I promise, but a quick heads up: my memory, confirmed by the reviews written in 1995, confirm that "Little Green Men" aired before "Starship Down."  Does this knowledge affect your plans at all?  [For what it's worth, production numbers seem to suggest that SD was…

I liked the episode maybe more than ever this past watching, and that ambiguity is part of the reason.  Normally I view it the way most do, where Jake's life is more like something to be mourned.  This time I was seeing it from lens of Jake being the one who gave his life to prevent a catastrophe, saved is father who…

I liked the episode maybe more than ever this past watching, and that ambiguity is part of the reason.  Normally I view it the way most do, where Jake's life is more like something to be mourned.  This time I was seeing it from lens of Jake being the one who gave his life to prevent a catastrophe, saved is father who…

This may be rationalizing, but I'm more inclined to praise DS9 for remembering Joran at all (TNG wouldn't have even mentioned him) than to be too upset about the fact that he doesn't quite mesh with "Equilibrium"-Joran.

It's really fun seeing Zack connect with so much of what the show's trying to do - not only loving the accepted classics, but also enjoying hanging out with an episode like "Facets.".  I totally agree with all the problems that've been listed elsewhere, and don't really care very much for "Facets" at all.  Much of it…

It's really fun seeing Zack connect with so much of what the show's trying to do - not only loving the accepted classics, but also enjoying hanging out with an episode like "Facets.".  I totally agree with all the problems that've been listed elsewhere, and don't really care very much for "Facets" at all.  Much of it…

Why do Sisko et al have to act unprepared every time a visitor does an "I am not here for recreation, let's talk business" routine?  They have to be used to that by now.