Cause and Effect is a fantastic episode, although the explosion is a bit fake-looking.

I also like how Klingons can die for an undefined amount of time before getting back up again. They are the Kenny's of the Star Trek universe.

I'm as old as The Real World. I AM KEEPING IT REAL, MTV! ME!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Democracy just doesn't work.

Seasame Street teaches sharing, and sharing is the mainstay of those Commie bastards.

That sounds about right, Hole.

Oh:

Hey, check it out. Baywatch is on.

As you mentioned before, Billy, we're inching ever closer to the unholy land that is Cost of Living.

You laugh, but I lost an arm in those Eugenics Wars.

The Heaviest Beam in the Universe
Re-watching the episode, I like how that beam that's covering Alexander is so heavy, yet it doesn't crush him in any way, and also after Worf throws it off him it lands on a chair and it doesn't collapse from the weight.

It happens here in Illinois. It's a plague that can't be stopped.

I don't think anyone can really say The Dominion War glamorized war at all. I can't remember what episode it is, but where Sisko is reading over the list of casualties for that particular day (or week) and the list was so long and kept going… plus the aforementioned Siege of AR-558… no way did they make war seem like…

@ drdarkeny: "Nucular. It's pronounced nucular." Sorry, you joke made me think of that Simpsons quote…

ST: TMP implies there is a planetary defense system too, Bad Horse. It just seems like it sucks ass. V'Ger shuts it down pretty quick (granted, it's a super intelligent NASA probe…), *SPOILERS FOR DS9* The Breen seem to get through easily enough to do some damage to San Fransisco, and it didn't seem to be working on…

Watching it back when it first aired I never picked up on it, and even after I found IMDB and read about the goof it was hard to spot. But on a huge flat screen TV it stood out so very much, it was impossible to miss.

Something along the lines of only a few ships near the planet, that does always seem to be an issue in Star Trek ("You're the only ship in range"), which obviously is just a plot convenience. It seems like the Federation isn't the only one with this problem, though. The Klingons get Picard and Data to Romulus…

Tomalak only appears on the show like three or four times, and that's enough for him to be pretty much awesome. Andreas Katsulas was great in that role.

*Conquering. Whoops.

Conqoring a Planet…
Apparently all you need to take over one of the founding planets of the Federation is 6000 troops. That's about enough to take over a few cities I suppose, but an entire planet?