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So I'd really like to watch Skin of Evil before next week's write-up. I remember disliking it intensely the last couple of times I watched it—the tonal whiplash from Yar's death to the boredom of he Troi scenes to hey look Picard just beamed away and the all-powerful being couldn't do anything to stop it to the…

If I'm not mistaken, TNG was the single most expensive television show in history when it debuted. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Dired, as someone who's never understood the love for Pavement and who thinks the first half of Alligator could use a little more of the propulsion of Abel or Mr. November, I don't blame you (or anyone) who finds them just a little too dull. We could call it Walkmen's Disease: the proven capability of churning out…

Chartex, it's been a while and I don't have very fond memories for that movie since, IIRC, I watched it on HBO laaaaate at night and was expecting to not have to wait so freaking long for the ta-tas in question. So they may be better than I remember them being. The universal applause here makes me think they probably…

Also, she seemed to be in a position of real power, as opposed to the head of security who never gets around to securitizing much of anything. And she wore a better uniform. And her character was better written than Yar ever was, so you didn't have to wince whenever she opened her pretty mouth.

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Real Brahms discovering Fake Brahms is the most awkward moment in the entire series, by a mile and a half. The only scene where TNG and the British Office intersect.

Something besides Hyser's tits stayed in your head from that movie? How? Not that her tits were that magnificent, but the rest of the movie was so … forgettable.

I'll second placing "Birthright" at the bottom and agree that "Descent'"s batshit second half deserves some hat, but c'mon—it's got Data beating up on renegade Borg and being tempted all Christ-like by Lore the Devil. That alone pushes it past "Farpoint" or "Gambit," which, yawn. I never felt like the show's…

Hairstyle schmairstyle, Minuet is hawt, particularly if you're a young 'un watching in 1987 and desperate for for some hot space babes and so far not only has the show not had much in the way of space babes, it's mostly been Picard beaming himself into an energy cloud and making P's on consoles and whatnot.

Crooner, I'd be willing to listen to the "best band of the decade" argument. But even the Pornos' overall output yields to Case's, if you ask me, whose accomplishments in the Aughts are kind of staggering: four rock-solid solo studio albums, a seminal live disc, a key role on four more rock-solid New Pornos' albums,…

"Letter From an Occupant" was the greatest pop song of the previous decade, period, end of story. Scientists estimate that the "Letter From an Occupant" reservoir will be able to provide 10 million people with enough clean, fresh hooks for the next 30 years.

Finbad, that's an NP offshoot (one of the band members helped found it, maybe Thurier?) called The Choir Practice. Enjoy:

That is just a shade disappointing to hear about Dahle. I could count the number of genuinely shrewd insights I've read in Pitchfork reviews on one hand, but one of them was that Dahle was the guy who truly powered Twin Cinema. His drumming on "Use It," in particular, is terrific.

1. Twin Cinema 2. Mass Romantic 3. Electric Version 4. Challengers.

It's used pretty prominently in "The Measure of a Man" alongside Riker's chilling "Pinocchio's strings have been cut" line. Man, THAT was a hell of an episode. But it pops up here and there IIRC—usually when Data's been deactivated and someone (Geordi or Crusher?) has to wake him up.

Darth's kind of on to something with the "adventure fiction" disclaimer. Part of the reason all these kinds of characters wind up as pure, unadulterated evil is because they're all fantasy/sci-fi creations; giving Sauron or an early-stage Magneto or Palpatine a three-dimensional personality doesn't really work when…

Every week someone says "Hey, remember how much Masks sucked?" and like eight people (myself included) mention how no, it didn't suck. (It didn't, really; it was a wackily far-out fun episode, as opposed to a wackily far-out idiotic episode like any one involving Alexander.)