Sarah really screwed the pooch on this one. Sure, she needs to set boundaries, that's fine. But when you set unrealistically strict boundaries your kid's not going to respect them and you're stuck between sticking to your guns on principle (and escalating the situation further than you initially intended to), or…

Sorry, I've just got to disagree with your statement: "Things matter less when you believe there are just infinite varieties of ourselves floating around in time and space. They matter infinitely less."

I think Sacreligious is correct, and I'll even go so far as to say that, with another successful movie or two, we're likely to get another TV series as well. There's a built-in audience for a Trek show, and with all the various cable channels out there, there's a need for programming that a treks series could fill. I…

Botany Bay…. Botany Bay….

Agreed. There were really only two options, because rebooting with the existing continuity was simply not going to happen. Option one is simply handwave the continuity and tell a new story from scratch, with no direct connection or acknowledgement of existing Canon. That worked well enough for Batman Begins, but…

No doubt. He was one of my favorite anonymous henchmen from the Bond franchise. Nicely evil without being too goofy, stupid or crazy.

Well, plus he's Spock, so he's just so damn smart that he studies dilithium crystal alignment on his off hours, and actually knows the trainee's job better than they do. At least that was my interpretation of that scene when I was a kid; Spock's such a bad-ass nerd that he assumes he's the only one up to the task.…

got to agree on this one. depending on a nurse's specialty and what continuing education he/she has gone through, any given nurse could potentially have just as much or more education than a Dr. does. A Dr may have more authority due to the nature of the position, but nurses are just as vital to providing proper…

Alright, here's the fanboy explanation: Spock knew that he'd be the only crew member able to survive the effects of the radiation in the intermix chamber long enough to re-align the dilithium crystals because Vulcans have greater tolerance to radiation than humans (an evolutionary response to Vulcan's…

Not bad! 430 is the standard complement of crew, per memory-alpha.

Doesn't he bear much of his animosity for Tom Riker for much of the same reasons though? Maybe I'm reaching a bit here, but he really came off a bit self-conscious in that episode, as if the merest hint of any of his less-desirable character traits really bothered him quite deeply. The same issues could be at work…

The plan is that he's sneaking back into Cardassian space under an assumed identity, as some sort of space pirate / bounty hunter, and Sito is just window dressing for that aspect of the story. I'm not sure how he's going to play off his absence from the Cardassian military once he gets back home (or exactly why…

Happens to me all the time. Sometimes the client's just pissed off at the moment, sometimes they're angling for a better deal. Who knows what the issue it. If you've done your job, made a competitive offer, and are confident in your product you've got to let 'em walk and you'll likely win some more than you lose some.…

How about Dawn of the Dead?

Perhaps this isn't a 100% unhappy ending, but I'll mention The Empire Strikes Back. The whole movie's really a bit bleak, with all of the protagonists seemingly a step behind the Empire even when they think they've managed to turn the tide for once. They just barely manage to escape with their lives (if not all of…

I absolutely loved the ending to No Country for Old Men. For one, I'm a sucker for movies that end unexpectedly*, and the abrupt cut to black when Tommy Lee Jones finishes his monologue caught me completely off-guard and really stuck with me for a while. I literally sat there silent for a moment, trying to figure out…

That was the first thing that comes to mind. The first time I watched it I spent the whole movie rooting for Michael, watching him bounce from one crisis to another, seemingly winning at every turn. But by the last half hour or so you start to realize that it was all falling apart around him the whole time… And to…

Cosby was definitely right, but then he let his argument go off the rails when he made it more about his own jealousy of Dr. Joe instead of the conflict of interest issue. Jasmine actually agreed to find another pediatrician for Jabar, So if he hadn't overplayed his hand he would've actually won the argument…

It's getting a bit more believable; but it's also getting more hackneyed. Of course coffee girl is going to want to give her baby to Julia once she gets a glimpse of her upper-class domestic tranquility. Their lifestyle is pretty much the definition of everything that coffee girl can't provide her child. And July…

I think they only did it one other time, and it was pretty much the same thing, but with a different song. Still pretty damn funny, and they didn't run it into the ground.