It's applicable to the world at large.

I'm in the process of watching DS9 for the first time but haven't reached the part where Alexander shows up yet, so Worf still has this aura of a weird deadbeat like you're saying. I don't think they even mention him going back to earth for vacation to see his son on the weeks he's not on the show, which you'd think…

There are some pretty dire DS9 episodes in the pre-beard seasons (I'm thinking specifically of the one with Rumpelstiltskin), but I agree that they're at worst tedious and frustrating rather than dumbfoundingly terrible a la "Angel One."

"It doesn't quite have that next-level brand of calculated, aggressive idiocy that says "F" to me!"

And, tellingly, it has her doing something non-specific to her character. You probably could have subbed anybody else in there and had an equally compelling (or better) episode; Troi just happened to get the nod.

Wheaton's finest moment: "No, Ace. Just you."

Chico - It was especially weird that they were condescending about the past considering that so many of their hobbies coincidentally came from the 20th century. Keep playing that jazz and enjoying that organized baseball, dickholes.

Agreed — not a great actor. But a hugely engaging presence in everything I've seen him in.

Skinner's great — completely credible as a principled bruiser. The elevator scene was so great because he got the chance to just let that simmering, righteous rage explode into X's face. All the hiding in shadows, the secret communiques, the world-spanning conspiracies — they don't matter when it came down to an…

Keith David
He's one of those guys who elevates everything he's involved with. Why isn't he better known? (This question also applies to Tony Todd.)

Beautiful, Eponymous. Just beautiful.

"We're looking for a certain Borg-like quality."

I like the Crystalline Entity because it represents something we don't see very often on what's supposed to be a science-fiction show: A genuinely *alien* intelligence. This came up in the discussion last week about Darmok, of how almost all of the aliens on Trek were just various flavors of humanity. That's not a bad…

I figure it's just due to different people having different pronunciations for certain proper nouns, just like they do now. Take Iraq:

The essential Nurse Ogawa!

I actually dig PMP, but I definitely understand why people don't. It's trying pretty damn hard — but that's part of the charm for me, I think.

"Post-Modern Prometheus" is another episode that features a loveable loser of a rapist. That's a weird well to go back to.

Well-meaning counterpoints? But this is the Internet!

Morgan's Millennium episodes
Since we're (sort of) on the subject of both Darin Morgan and Millennium, what did you all think of the two episodes he wrote for that show? I ask because I watched them for the first time recently and was kind of shocked to find that… I really wasn't impressed. Jose Chung's Doomsday…