I have nothing to add except that the concept of one's fears eliminating one another in some kind of terror-based March Madness tournament is terrific.

I have a theory that Schwarzennegger can actually speak English like an Iowa sportscaster, but chooses to stick with the accent purely for the hilarity.

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Every year on Data's Day, the Enterprise unknowingly delivers a Romulan spy masquerading as a Vulcan to his or her handlers.

And neither was the Romulan officer.

A pledge that their enemies would always dress more ridiculously than them.

Weren't rednecks actually shooting down metric speed limit signs? Because something something communism?

I didn't really dig that part of the finale either (sidebar: I loved how Sisko's winning strategy was just to football tackle Dukat — _right after_ he'd been shown the futility of a physical confrontation when Dukat shrugged off his punches), but Wynn had tried to have that one guy assassinated near the end of the…

Is that the one where they decide that's it's absolutely imperative that they bury their dead while hostile natives are right outfuckingside? If I were one of those dead guys, I'd tell them to stop being idiots for the sake of somber ritual and listen to their damned commanding officer.

This is one of the trickier gimmicks to pull off — he's simultaneously satirizing the real-world Rick Berman's leadership on Star Trek while integrating him into the Frakes/Sirtis messageboard continuity we've got going. It's a layer cake of meta-critical commentary.

"I'd also put the blindfold on whenever I went to town on myself in my office."

The Spock/McCoy relationship seemed a lot warmer in the films than in the TV show, I think. In the films, McCoy's bitching seemed more loveably cantankerous — you knew he really cared about Spock deep down. But on the show, McCoy could be borderline-racist towards him, depending on the episode.

I never minded the rip-offery that much — it's a great premise, and the idea of somebody trapped in the loop who remembers every failure was just enough of a tweak to make it compelling.

He turned down Primal Fear? Imagine if he'd taken it — it could have been him curb-stomping that guy in American History X instead of Edward Norton.

Nope.

Yes, though it only works if it's a woman saying it.

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That would have been cool, except I just don't think they had the writing talent to pull that off.

I think it's the inevitable result of a dialectic format. You're forced to consider all viewpoints — even Rick Fucking Berman's.

That wouldn't have been cheesy; it would have been the logical outcome of years of character development. Your 8-year-old self was spot-on.