Lord Running Clam and Megatuna, I agree on all your points. By bringing up the idea of a modern pantheon of television writers, I didn't necessarily intend to start a list (though it would be an interesting one and Chase and Weiner would obviously each have an esteemed place on it).

MurraytheSkull, I'll happily include Sorkin in my personal pantheon of great modern television writers. His work on The West Wing (and much of Sports Night), while polarizing, was staggering in at least its commitment to a singular vision (it was also damn funnier than most, if not all comedies, of the same time). I…

I'm hoping Moore pulls the fat from the fire. I loved the mutiny episodes and had hoped they'd provide the narrative thrust for the rest of the series with exposition of the various "arcs" and mysteries coming in on the fly, like in the final season of The Shield (which BSG has emulated in some significant respects)…

Ron Moore Is Pretty Damn Good
That's more like it. I agree with Adama from last week: "I've had it up to here with prophecies and destiny." This is the series at its best; humans (and humanoid Cylons) making tough decisions about their moral beliefs and what side they're going to fight for and die for in the long…

La Dolce Gilda
Tom Schiller's piece (and Gilda Radner in it) are wonderful. I saw this when it originally aired when I was barely a teen and only vaguely familiar of the idea of Federico Fellini. When I as finally old enough to sit down and appreciate La Dolce Vita (one of my favorite films) and 8 1/2, I appreciated…

Shore Leave was written by Theodore Sturgeon who also wrote one of the series' best episodes, Amok Time. His best known science fiction novel is More Human Than Human.

I love A Private Little War for, equally, its trenchant JFK-styled Viet Nam analogy, Nancy Kovak's Nona in skintight black leather pants and the Mugato.

All right — I as wrong! Arena goes on the list — despite the Malkosians' efeiminacy. It replaces Methusalah — which I still like.

Star Trek Makes Me Happy
I'll read through all the comments later — so below I may hit on some points already discussed. I just wanted to note the following:

This is Great
I've never written a comment on any article written on the net without reading it first. This is the exception. I'll come back and look at it tomorrow but for now I just wanted to put in my two cents; HC is one of the great, underrated films. I wound up seeing it in the theater I think six times…

The Death of Jeremy Benthem
I came into this way too late to read the comments but I just want to add that a good episode was made genuinely great by the scene between Locke and Ben at the end. I know Emerson and O'Quinn are great and Giacchino is a musical genius, and that Jack Bender is the most assured director…

I just laughed reading that

Pimpbot Rawks
In terms of favorite moments, I think Conan and his team got it right this week with the segments they screened, notably shooting weird targets with Hunter Thompson (though they did edit it a bit) and Conan's personal fave of the old time baseball on tonight's finale.

What's interesting about the season 4 premiere of DS9 (when Dorn's Worf is added), is that it's like a series reboot. Producer Ira Steven Behr, Ron Moore and all the other contributors seemed required to go out of their way to re-establish the parameters of the show (who and what Odo is, for example), knowing that…

Wook, if you want to give DS9 a real go, start, not surprisingly enough, when BSG's Ron Moore joined the writing staff at the beginning of season 3. I think the show's gangbusters from there (although I have my qualms about the last few episodes and the finale — MAYBE deja vu all over again with BSG, we will see). …

I don't think I can adequately address the first point (though I imagine one could make an argument for Buffy the Vampire Slayer — at least it made exposition engaging). As to the second point, I simply disagree that here it was interesting and tightly plotted. It was a chore to sit through. I think this is simply…

Dump
I don't care how many times fans and critics write how we "earned this episode"; all of those same fans and critics, including noble Chris here have laid out how they understood the mythology as laboriously presented in No Exit, and while there's a basic thread of agreement and understanding, there's also a lot…

This episode verged on being genuinely awful — especially after what has just preceded it. Exposition is difficult to write and make interesting but it is possible, particularly when you've set up a decidedly intense theatrical structure (as in the sense of a one or two act play as Chris' review suggests), but every…

A nice little camera move and musical sting, too. TOS was so good at that. And yes, "hot-DAYUM!"

I feel you're right on the hyphenation.