Starring the Star Trek version of Omar, no less.

The Wrath of Khan, probably, or the reboot.

I hope my tastes are maturing. There's things I really liked as recently as 2007 that embarrass me now.

Star Trek TAS has been covered.

Eponymous: They could both be true. It's not like Section 31 is going around ruining your shit if you decide not to join the Federation. By and large, the organization is as benevolent as it appears to be in TNG. But if you mess with the bull, you get the horns.

Gotta give it to Move Along Home for its shaggy dog ending, especially seeing as how TOS-ish its premise is. Of course they're in the game. Of course the hazards are real, why wouldn't they be? Then the ending hits you with "why would the hazards be real? It's only a game."

I don't think anyone in Section 31 would argue the Federation is founded on bullshit. I'm sure Sloan or any other 31 agent would say they believe deeply in the Federation and its rightness, which is essentially the rightness of Roddenberry's vision. If a few of them need to get their hands dirty, so be it.

Firefly is really a lot more potential than it is actual show, isn't it? Clearly planned with at least a couple more seasons in mind. It's fun and unique but it never went very far. I don't know how much I need to see TV Clubs of it.

Duet is fucking great. Just great. Just fucking tremendous.

Does anyone dislike Chain of Command? I have never heard anyone rag on it.

Hayden Christensen has a lot of amazing voice acting to do if he wants to be redeemed like Hamill.

Frakes…wow, Frakes. That was brilliant. I have tears.

I can fanwank you an explanation for that. Since the Briar Patch makes everyone revert to a younger version of themself, Picard becomes the brash Academy cadet from Tapestry from the time they arrive at the Baku planet. He makes more impulsive, idealistic decisions throughout than he would otherwise.

I seem to remember there was an awesomer S5 finale draft script that involved the Enterprise crashing a la Generations, or maybe the Enterprise becoming a cruise ship (more than it is already), or something else weird like that. Budget and irrevocability concerns doomed that script, so we get warmed-over Doctor Who.

You want ham, Sajanas? F. Murray Abraham delivers ham with a capital H in Insurrection.

Birthright also leans on Part 2, Scruggs. But if you forgot Birthright existed, I can't blame you.

GAAAH, Alastair Reynolds. GAAAH. I have only one uncontrollable nerd rage, and it's him.

Good catch. I knew there was something familiar about "this is not my beautiful wife".

True, Todd, I came off a little harder on early BSG than I meant to, and I still think season 2 is its best overall, Black Market aside. Maybe it's more that BSG actually went farther with its whole spirituality aspect than DS9 did, and actually made it weird, and confusing, and a matter of faith.

In addition to Sisko's moral ambiguity, Moonlight has the cool framing device, a sense of spiraling disaster, genuine suspense with galactic stakes, "IT'S A FAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE", and the confrontation scene with Sisko and Garak is lights-out amazing.