@Windy Shrimp, my theory is that because Spiner had to be so buttoned-up and unemotional for Data, he went way over the top whenever he had the chance to do anything else.

I think he'd just be repeatedly stroking his long, luxuriant tresses.

Ah, good point. It's been a while since I watched the episode. Complaint rescinded!

Because Star Trek.

I'm waiting for Berman to make an appearance and corroborate everything Frakes says.

I wish they'd been a little more explicit that Troi was using her empathic ability the whole time she was there — the only time it really gets mentioned is when she senses the bad mojo from the transport ship that gets blown up. Yeah, it would have been telling the audience something it could probably assume, but it…

Holy yikes. Come for the Star Trek discussion, stay for the comprehensive schooling on photoreceptors and color perception. Thanks, alurin.

Arguments against torture
1. The Reservoir Dogs objection, as noted by JMP in an earlier thread:
"Nice Guy Eddie: If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago fire, now that don't necessarily make it fucking so!" I.e., the tortured will say whatever they think their captors…

French-bashing might be enjoying a renaissance among the hipsterati because of the Strauss-Kahn thing. Or maybe they're just being run-of-the-mill, unfunny dickfaces.

Ah, that's right. Thanks for clarifying. I think I'd put that out of my mind owing to the overall crappiness of that episode (the Tiki torch-twirler? Come on, Star Trek) and to my never really buying Odo's betrayal in the first place. It seemed like a case of a character taking action (or not taking action, in this…

The holodeck, like the transporter, is a piece of Trek tech that would explode reality if it were exploited to its full potential. Like, why not just make the whole ship a holodeck? That way you don't need to have any physical objects, aside from food for the crew, maybe. But then why not have a holographic crew, who…

The UT is completely magical, so Madred no doubt heard the song in Cardassian French.

@Yuri, what DS9 plot point gets resolved with an unseen conversation in season 6? I'm trying to think back but coming up blank.

Totally forgot about those two. I'd put Data's beard ahead of Picard, just behind Worf.

Because this series seems to be about roles the subjects have played in fictional movies and TV shows, not ads or stuff where they're playing themselves (even if the John Hodgman on the Daily Show is a character).

Obtuse but kind of hot, right? You can tell that behind that icy imperiousness is an insatiable sex maniac who's into some truly appalling shit.

TNG's best beards
1. Riker
2. Riker
3. Riker
4. Geordi (I thought he looked great)
5. Worf
6. Kelsey Grammar in "Cause and Effect"
1,112. Wesley (Projected)

The exhaustive list:

Those were getting mini-reviews within the X-Files reviews for a while last year, I think.

Morn can do all three simultaneously. And a fourth and fifth.