The studio needs to take a lesson from another famous franchise. You have to pair the esteemed creator with an up-and-coming producer on a new show set in the same fictional universe. Eventually the jr producer will gain more control, the original creator will go away (or die) and the new producer will carry on as if…

I noticed that the grid patterns for the 2149 cities were laid out in a circular formation just like Terra Nova, which I thought was a nice visual detail.

Is 'Terra Nova' this generation's 'Land of the Lost'? (assuming it isn't that 'Land of the Lost' movie that no one likes)

Shannon running from the explosion into the vortex reminded me of when Capt. Archer had to outrun the explosion of the Xindi sphere at the end of Enterprise Season 3. And Capt. Archer also ended up in the different time. I guess there are only so many ways to film a guy on a catwalk running away from an explosion.

They just watched Planet of the Apes?

When the bomb-difusing soldier told Taylor she could track the "pyro-sonics" did her explanation make any sense? Something about tracing the remote-detonation signal back to the source or something? But wouldn't the bomb itself just have a receiver to pick up the signal that sets it off? So if they were tracking the…

The ship came through the Bermuda Triangle, right? Is that the gag? Is there also a dad and his two kids living in the jungle who came through a portal while rafting?

You "dissed" DS9, clearly indicating you remember it being on, thus invalidating your whole attempt to make a point.

It's Star Trek's legacy and film history. It has nothing to do with "whining"

more people watched DS9 than Voyager and its ratings weren't that far off from TNG. And this is after receiving almost no marketing from Paramount.

It still drives me nuts that they just put him back as the Enterprise security chief with no explanation even though ———SPOILERS———— he was made the ambassador to the Klingons by the end of DS9. It's not like the plot of the movie involved a diplomatic mission where something like that could fit into the plot very…

I wasn't saying the captain's yacht wasn't cool to see. Only that there was this whole subset of fandom that was being serviced by the scene after years of being told in the books about all these things that were on the ship that were never shown on the TV show.

True story: When I saw this in theaters, when someone mentioned the Captain's Yacht, someone in the audience actually shouted "YES!" at the prospect of finally seeing it in action after years of reading about it in technical manuals. Which kind of tells you what kind of crowd was still going to Trek movies in the late…

I actually don't take continuity too seriously on the McFarlane shows

The kid says he'll see Stan again at the Rapture, but didn't the Rapture already happen? And Stan is living out his ideal life through a heaven fantasy?

Interesting comment from Don about kids thinking about death, when Sally made comments about the afterlife in the previous episode.

The thing that irked me most about this episode: I really wanted to see them re-create 1965 Disneyland. Shucks.

Watching the house scene a couple of notions struck me. Would Don lie about who Dick was to his kids, telling them he was another friend or something? The fact that Stephanie was standing right there probably negating that instinct in Don. If she weren't there, would he have lied to his kids about who Dick was?

I think the point being made isn't about what the nature of a critic is, but what the point of these AV Club reviews are. A thoughtful analysis of a piece of filmed entertainment is a given, but there is also a question of perspective. The comment board component lends credence to the idea that, for weekly series, the…

The twist about Stone leaking the documents because he wanted to bring down Kane makes sense on one level, but on another level, Stone was the one advising Kane on how to survive the scandal. So Stone's own advice is undercutting his motives. And it seems he tried to kill the nurse to keep her quiet, so he could stay…