I, for one, care as well. I was just going through my WMP library and lamenting the fact that there weren't any un-linstened-to DJ Mixes in there. And then I remembered - Beat Connection! Thanks Michaelangelo, your timely post has saved me from slogging through spreadsheets without the benefit of something new to…

C'mon's got a point - it doesn't make sense that the crew automatically accepts Data's presence as 3rd in command of Starfleet's flagship, at least not at first. During the series he does make some progress towards being more human, and he certainly proves his loyalty and reliability time after time.

All of the above! it's enjoyability knows no bounds!

Loki it is!

That lawn's not going to mow itself - get to work!

yeah, it really fits TOS's themes better than TNG. at that point in Starfleet's development, it makes sense that they wouldn't have such strict policies and procedures that the Captain and senior staff wouldn't have had the leeway to go on away teams if they choose to. plus, the rest of the crew is much smaller, and…

oh, I get it, I forgot that guy played the riddler!

According to Larry David's commentary track on the DVD, "The Busboy" was the first one in which the plots tie together at the end, when the busboy gets in a fight with Elaines boyfriend in the hallway outside Jerry's apartment. Apparently it was more of an afterthought, that they could just throw in this little gag at…

Don, You're thinking of "Redemption, Part II" and Data does prove himself quite trustworthy in that episode.

IIRC, he also threatened it in "Let That be Your Last Battlefield" (AKA "Space Racism is Bad")

You're right Inle - that would be a valuable insight. I volunteer you to post this in the comments from here on out!

Bad horse - that's a good point, and touches on something that's always bothered me - Data really shouldn't be allowed to be an officer in starfleet, becuase he can't be trusted the way a human can. Sure, he's always been trustworthy, and he's been a great officer. But he's really only along for the ride becuase he's…

I always wondered the same thing myself - I get that his "Positronic Net" is a storytelling device kinda along the lines of a maguffin - if they were able to reverse engineer it and make a Data for everyship we'd lose a lot of the mystery. but it just doesn't seem likely that a single scientist would be able to make…

Now this collumn can ruin 2 days's productivity each week instead of merely 1!

I've always read it that way as well. Among freinds, I don't see a problem with good-natured racial joking. Hell, I even call my wife a cracker and a honky from time to time. And she calls me out on me being a hypocrite (I'm half white myself). I do think there's a little bit more to it on McCoy's part, becuase he's…

good god, that list is fucking horrible! I didn't realize how much of these channels' progamming has been taken over by the "Watch Annoying People do a Job Different Than Yours" genre. I mean, I can kinda get the appeal of something like "Deadliest Catch", becuase that's something that's fairly exotic to me (being…

DVD Fab is great software, and if you purchase the mobile version, it gives you tons of options for ripping and converting movies into a format that will play on all sorts of mobile devices. You can pick codecs, alter aspect ratios, frame rates, resolution, compression ratios, etc. or you can use one of about a dozen…

I've taken to immediatly throwing away all packaging for any media I purchase, and then just filing it away in those huge 150 disc flip-books. My wife (who loves collecting stuff) is horrified when I sit down every dec 26th and throw away a huge pile of collectible DVD packaging, but to me I only care about the…

I find "Hoarders" to be nearly as harrowing as "Intervention". These people are just too sick for me to enjoy their predicament (compared to most reality TV, for which schadenfreude is entirely appropriate). And if you watch it seriously, it's too damn depressing. Maybe it'd be better if they got more than a week or…

Sucessfully transcribing all that would be like discovering a unified theory of physics, or solving Pi down to the last digit.