OK, here's my pet peeve. The Nexus provides your paradise, your heaven, your perfect fantasy. Dr. Tolian Soran is willing to kill literally billions of people in order to reattain it after experiencing it for a good 30 seconds.

I'm going to have to give it up for…
Assisted Living Dracula.

For what it's worth, I was enlightened by this thread, and appreciate the clarification. I also give mad props to Captain Angrypants and ToddG for backing me up.

Question
Zack,

I had the exact same opinion when I saw it when it first came out. Heck, I remember the 1980s horror film "There's Nothing Out There" doing that exact same schtick, and it wasn't all that great then either.

Zack,

I think there's a strong and a weak definition of retcon, both of which are valid.

Historical Context
I remember watching this when it was first run in 1991, and it was an event for some contextual reasons as well:

Here's one of DS9's best conversations in that regard: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I wouldn't say that viewing DS9 as un-Trek is an 'uninformed opinion', but I would nonetheless disagree with it. It seems obvious to me that the writers of DS9 had a great deal more respect and love for the Trek universe than that of the contemporaneous Voyager. I find the Borg only showed up in Voyager when the…

I mentioned this in a prior TNG article, but in Star Trek Online Sela goes on to become Romulan Empress after the Hobus Supernova destroys Romulus. Which is only slight less ridiculous than Shinzon becoming Praetor, I guess.

Agreed. I can't say enough about 'Dirty Harry'.

@Walter Abundas: Why do you think that Robinson didn't like being associated with the character? He seemed to speak affably enough about playing him on the DVD's special features. Heck, he talked about some of the personal characteristics he brought to the role. For example, he stated that he ad-libbed the line…

On a tangentially related subject…
…I love Andy Robinson's portrayal of the Scorpio Killer would later inform his portrayal of Elim Garak on Deep Space Nine.

I'm with Henry on this one. I think there's every reason to assume that Det. Callahan has given this speech dozens of times before, and that toying with criminals in this fashion is one of the few pleasures in his otherwise wretched life. One of the themes of the movie was how the Scorpio Killer took even that away…

No, it wasn't. As we learn from Mr. Plinkett, it was well choreographed but emotionless. Also, Darth Maul let Obi-Wan kill him because the script told him too.

I think that's correct. It's more of an homage than anything else, I think. Heck, I think the Sturges film 'Ace in the Hole' is probably more of a deconstruction of the genre then 'Hudsucker'.

Deconstruction
I'm intrigued by Nabin's comment that this movie is a 'deconstruction' of the '40s/'50s screwball comedy. I always saw it as just an example of same. Is there anything we can point to in the film that would make it a deconstruction? I would argue that 'The Apartment' or 'Bringing Up Baby' or 'Some…

As one of the few people in God's green universe who defends Enterprise (well, most of Enterprise, anyway), I would note that the Klingon lawyer in that fourth season show where Captain Archer gets put on Klingon trial reacts with bemusement at Archer's presumption that Klingons were all warriors. This might just be…

According to Star Trek Online, Sela gets to become Empress of the Romulan Empire after Romulus explodes. So, uh, good for her, I guess. Makes you wonder what she was doing for the whole Dominion War cycle, though.