I still chuckle at the fact that French people call each other "cabbages" as signs of endearment.

When you have an idiotic decision that is completely ruinous to everything you know about Picard, at least while you're still watching the episode, awesome is no longer a proper description. "Mildly hypnotic insanity" might be a better term. He leaves the ship in the hands of the chief medical officers and a couple of…

Q Who?, BOBW1&2, and I,Borg are all pretty awesome I think, and form a great sort of "Borg Trilogy." That's a solid 165 minutes right there.

What if it had been the beard? Evil Season 1 Riker!

I think we can suppose that because of the fabrics of the 24th century, Starfleet uniforms would last wizardlessly, right?

Zach, as a fellow English nerd, I'm curious if you were referencing Hamlet, PKD, or both?

It's a really cool idea, but in the end I think it would have been too weird to see everyone going back to work the next week without any grief and no extended follow up to the killing off of the second billed character!

You know, the more you think about it, the crews of all of the shows have a "chosen one" aura, (especially Deep Space 9 where Sisko, [oops spoilers] nvm…). Like Todd says, on the show, the purpose of the entire universe is to provide cathartic experiences to help our heroes grow. But most ensemble shows are…

Sometimes I think the lack of cohesion is the price to pay for truly standout eps like BOBW and "The Inner Light." When every episode (or pair) essentially stands alone, I think the producers are willing to take more risks then they would on a serial show. Personally, I felt like Deep Space 9 suffered in it's later…

You actually can create a trombone out of thin air. It's called replication.