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True, but then you get into the whole "When you think about it, the brain is just a biological computer" thing. What was more important for me — and what made Data more than just a machine — was his striving to be something more, not his realization of it.

It didn't bother me at the time, but on subsequent viewings, the multiple this-is-the-ending-no-this-is goes beyond post-sex cuddling into a weeping reminiscence about an ex-boyfriend.

The undoing of the USS Milkrun:

Spiner chews scenery like Cookie Monster chews cookies: With incredible gusto and to little actual effect.

"Warp speed" might be another example — assuming it originated with Trek, which I'm not certain about — but this is a great point.

I love ridiculousness of him peeling off the sideburns. You can almost hear the writers saying "OK, we need to give him some kind of fake beard as a disguise, but we can't risk a beardless Riker destroying our show with the taint of TNG season 1. Anybody have any ideas?"

Everything I've read or heard about Kelley makes him sound like the absolute classiest of acts.

But how do you feel about liberalism?

Obviously, Worf was all spiritually distressed and neglecting his duties, which was then resolved in the next episode.

Are we correct in presuming the impression involves a black magic marker and a ping pong ball that's been cut in half?

Yeah, it's inconceivable that large portions of a society could be suspicious and contemptuous of science while at the same time celebrating the military might that science makes possible.

At what point do we just accept that TV Club posts will have the occasional mistake and forgo smugly pointing them out? Can it be now?

She was also David Bowie's Senior Codpiece Wrangler.

Why is it so easy to abduct Starfleet personnel? Because it's surprisingly easy to abduct anyone. Just ask my crawlspace.

@Mrs. Peel, I think you mean David Icke. He's further refined his theory to posit that the shape-shifting lizards that feed on human blood (to maintain their shape-shifting abilities, naturally) actually live inside the moon (it's hollow) whence they project a Matrix-like reality upon us earth-bound humans to keep us

I heard Frakes picked up a replica of that device at auction.

Yeah, Trek's re-use of actors can be pretty jarring. It's not so bad in the later series because they could apply a different set of face-bumps to distinguish between characters, but TOS just straight-up uses people again without alteration. So you get a lot of situations like, "Wait, why is the crazy commander of the

"I'm… Mott.
…The Hoople."

Ziyal got pretty annoying, though. I don't know if it was because they switched actresses a few times and ended up with somebody kind of bland or what, but I never really got drawn in by her situation.