I think Picard was fine with showing certain emotions -annoyance, amusement, anger, among others. But those weren't the ones that really mattered to him. The stuff that could make him vulnerable he kept under wraps though - anxiety, fear, love, etc.

IIRC, it was mentioned that he was rescued and raised by a starfleet office, possibly all the way back at "Encounter at Farpoint".

I imagine that'll be somewhat normal by then. Even in the last 100 years or so the average age at which one has kids has risen 8-10 years or so. in the future you probably stay in school till 25 or so, then spend a few years acting young and don't even start being responsible 'til you're in your 30's.

yeah, I'm pretty sure that was on your local affiliate. I distincly remember it following BoBW 2.

Nah, his name's really "John Luck Pickerd". The french pronunciation is an affectation he adopted to sound fancier.

the MLK strip was much, much worse than this one, IMO (and I use "worse" subjectively, becuase for all I know both were unlucky coincidences and not really that big of a deal to begin with). It says something about how sensitive we are these days that the veteran's day strip became more of a controversy.

It sounds like a rip off becuase it was scored by James Horner, who was once a creative composer of quality action movie soundtracks but has not written an original soundtrack in quite some time. In fact, two of the movies you mention (ST II and II and Titanic) were scored by Horner himself.

Yeah, I find myself sympathizing with Adam more and more as well. My job's not quite so crappy and my kid's problems aren't quite as hard to deal with as the asperger's, but damned if I don't want to punch some people in the face every now and then… and that guy sure as hell had it coming. getting called out for being…

I went to Disneyland in august and they did indeed have gilbert Gottfried as Iago. but he's just during the introduction, the rest is presumably authentic (it was the first time I'd been there, so I've no frame of reference).

the opening sentence, "People who know my feelings about TNG in general might be in for a pleasant surprise" could easily have been written by Larry Groznic.

damn, wrong thread. This belogs below.

True, it's more the reset button that pisses me off than cliffhangers in general. But I think that's really what steph555 was getting at anyway, without using the actual term.

I think we can all agree that…
Lens flare from Locutus's laser implant > any and all lense flare in Star Trek (2009).

I don't remember if I was that worried about Picard coming back, but I do remember a huge build up of tension as the episode went on. I didn't know it was a 2-parter at the time, and the further they got to the end of the hour without saving Picard, the more the tension built… and then there's Riker's "Fire", and…

I like that Zach's enough of a nerd to write about insecurity credibly, even if some of his stories hit a little too close to home for comfort… (I haven't ever spent time in a tree, but that's primarily due to my lack of tree-climbing ability).

My god, this is a huge pet peeve for me!

volume 3 only goes to about season 11 or so. The first guide covers 5-6 seasons, and then they're only 3-4 after that (If you're talking about "The Simpsons Forever", there may be other episode guides ut there).
Anyhow, it' s not a bad purchase if you can pick up used off of amazon or something. alot of the trivia you…

I tried The Inner Light with my wife as well, but it didn't work. She's completely impervious to Sci-fi. It's not that she actively dislikes it - she ends up tolerating huge amounts of sci fi between my son and I. It just doesn't make an impression on her at all - she neither likes not dislikes it, and never finds it…

Damn, you shoulda changed out the disc before you got through the cold open! You don't get a chance like that often. I've tried to get my wife to learn a proper appreciation for Star Trek, and it never works. Luckily 6-y old sons are much more impressionable.

There's no need for speculation or approximations, when we've got memory-alpha to definitely resolve any question, no matter how minute or trivial: