First of all, it's not like the dead cadet didn't agree to do the maneuver. Second, I'm willing to bet there's a long Starfleet tradition of accepting ambitious mistakes more readily than we would. Hey, at least they tried to do the Culvord Starburst. Shows balls and initiative.

Ugh, you just reminded me that C&E has one of the least forgivable TNG tropes - making up some phony-baloney subatomic particle to speed the plot resolution.

I don't think the Jem Hadar really get nerfed at all. All you see in the first engagement is that they're well-prepared for a small rescue party, and know how to make a suicide run. They're committed, and badass to be sure, but not Borg-level unstoppable.

Definitely not like Voyager ruined the Borg.

Mrs. Peel: You're not hallucinating, it's just Season 1. So you might as well be.

One thing that still supposedly holds up is Data's estimate of his memory capacity in The Measure of a Man, which someone did the math on. Apparently 800 quadrillion bits comes to something like 100 times larger than all information on the Internet circa 2006.

"There IS not alternate reality mechanism in Trek"

Jeebus: The First Duty is to the TRUTH!

Pre-credits fakeout that makes you think Wesley is killed (satisfying, if briefly). Cool mystery with a cool, consistent solution. Boothby. Picard tearing shit up. What's not to like about The First Duty?

^ boooooooooooooooooooooo

Nope, he's just a shiny-headed stud.

By the way, how lame is "Temporal Prime Directive?" They did miss a golden opportunity to call it the Time Directive.

They even do the "myself, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Ensign Ricky" to him. They didn't wink about it like Trek 09 did, but you knew what the fuck was up.

Memetic Frakes is becoming a bigger and bigger sex criminal.

My dad watched it on original airing & so did I. I can remember watching the first run of most episodes from the 4th season forward. Besides, the Enterprise is irresistible-looking to a kid. The alternating red and blue lights, the stretchy-engine warp effect. You can't be 4-5 and watch that and not be sucked right in.

For the love of God, what kind of sadistic fuck would give that instruction?

No word on whether the Frasierprise explodes, but I'm gonna go ahead and guess that it doesn't, and they just don't make em how they used to.

badcyclist: He looked at Riker at that point in each time loop. He knew he'd do it again.

Well, maybe it was bad directorial choices. Fire the director! *checks Memory Alpha* Winrich Kolbe…surely we wouldn't miss anything if he were fired. whoops, wrong again.

Man, I hope whoever wrote Cost of Living got fired…*goes to Memory Alpha*