Indeed. And I like that even in such a state of turmoil, O'Brien was considerate enough to only smash up Cargo Bay 7: Empty Tupperware.

It's good to know that in an age where most work is done with Optronic De-Re-Uncouplers and Sonic Ultracalibratomatic 3000s, Starfleet still keeps a standard-issue BIGASS FUCKIN' WRENCH around for when someone needs to smash up a cargo bay.

Loren Bouchard has a superhuman talent for conversational timing — it's apparent in Bob's Burgers too, but he uses it in a slightly different way there, with tighter comic timing, whereas in Home Movies all the dialogue feels (to repeat the word I praised above) *eerily* natural for a cartoon. Home Movies has a lot of…

Apparently nowhere special… the only other thing I recognize from his IMDB page is a couple minor voice appearances in The Boondocks…

Ooh yeah totally forgot about Lucy — that one's great too… It never became as amazing as Home Movies or Dr. Katz, but the graphic satanism and all the horror-movie techniques made it so gloriously weird.

Yeah, I well up a little at that final scene every time… Simply could not have been done more perfectly.

I'm diverting from BB to Home Movies talk but…

Perhaps it takes her some time to fully divest herself of *all* suspicions, but I think that's just because she *wants* to have suspicions. The truth is she's known from the very beginning that Sisko was something special that she could never ever be — because everything was set in motion by him *speaking face to face…

It's an interesting idea, but I think the last bit does indeed preclude it — and rightly so, since it wouldn't fit. Winn's issue with Sisko is the exact opposite: having spent her whole life treating the Bajoran religion in exactly that way (a game of power plays and manipulation and even assassination, all backed up…

Heh yeah I think you're right, and indeed that is even funnier… Also kind of a nice callback to Worf's reaction to darts

Games we know Nausicaans like: Dom-Jot and Throw-Knives-At-Each-Other

War in DS9 brings out some of the most enjoyable sci-fi colour — it's fun to consider what actual fighting-in-the-trenches goes on (even if, really, it's kind of hard to believe that human soldiers would play such a huge role in war in a universe with such technology). Here we get Kira's awesome class in comparative…

"considering how long he's been "awake" as an intelligent life form, he's kind of in adolescence still, emotionally."

That's what synthahol does, but we know that they use real alcohol too — that's commented on even as far back as the Irish settlers on the Enterprise. In DS9 you've got blood wine hangovers, and officers secretly acquiring Romulan Ale, and references to Bajoran drug addicts on the station during the occupation, and…

Author, Author was indeed great, largely because the Doctor is one of the few strong characters on the show… But I still think their handling of holograms-as-people is so awful. They just go all over the map with the distinction between the computer program that is a hologram's brain and the construction of photons…

It's interesting that both Voyager and DS9 explored the "set up the holodeck as a single, static location for everyone to visit" idea

Also worth noting, though not on the malfunction front: as much as the antics of Barclay were fun, "It's Only A Paper Moon" is a far more compelling look at holodiction and how bizarre it would be to live in a society where you can retreat into tangible fantasies.

True. Whenever I show praise to a Voyager episode, it's from within a framework of not expecting much :) Voyager episodes are only ever good in retrospect once you've had time to forget all the pointless bits and remember only the stuff that worked…

Heh. Yeah, the irish village concept was so idiotic. All so Janeway can have a creeeeeeepy relationship with a holopoet. I'll say this, though: Robert Picardo sure can rock priest's vestments.

Voyager did have at least one holodeck episode that I thought was pretty well-executed, with a cool twist: Worst Case Scenario, where *VOYAGER SPOILERS NOBODY CARES ABOUT* Tuvok's old simulation program for a Maquis mutiny contains a virus planted by Seska.