No, I meant the word I would have used to describe tomato soup through the nose! The picture is brilliant.

Agreed. I guess it's because Data's lack of emotions (or, probably more accurately, the low-key nature of whatever kind of android emotions he has) require Spiner to give a subtle performance and prevent him from giving in to his apparent natural tendency toward shameless hamming.

Yeah, I guess that's fair. I'm actually teaching a remedial writing course like that this semester, and it's almost like a vacation!

I hadn't seen this episode since I was an undergrad (i.e. before I started teaching), and while I don't really object to the plot in principle, it was mildly irritating that Keiko apparently just took to teaching right away even though she explicitly says in the episode that she's never done it before!

Doesn't the closing log entry say they sent the clone off on his merry way to do whatever?

That was it, actually, according to the writer:

Yeah, Troi and Crusher only have conversations when one of them is getting laid.

Pirate Sisko put Avery Brooks' talent for sometimes-inadvertant creepiness to amazing use, though!

The one thing that weirded me out about it when I rewatched it this week wasn't so much that Tahna planned to blow up the entrance to to the wormhole, but that Kira didn't bring up the Prophets as an argument against it, which in later seasons she certainly would have.

I suppose the word "stimulating" does technically describe the sensation of having tomato soup shoot out one's nose.

I've always liked Garak's take on Shakespeare: "I knew Brutus was going to kill Caesar in the first act! But Caesar didn't know it until the knife was in his back!"

There's a difference between tribbles doin' it and tribbles hanging out?

Also, she was played by Terry Farrell from Deep Space Nine!

Obligatory youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I think Ezri's character had a great hook, given the circumstances of how she got joined, but nothing very interesting came of it since the writers mostly seemed interested in who she'd get together with at the end. Which, who cares? I sure didn't.

I also registered just for DS9!

Yeah, it definitely made me think of the Balkans when it first aired too, since that was all over the news…

Yeah, but it's pretty easy to fanwank into one of those wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey things where the thing that should make them not-surprised only happened because they met him in the pilot…

I can't believe I'm using my first AV Club comment on this, but if you can only give one F to DS9 it has to go to "Profit and Lace." That episode has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.