They did go there in 'Brothers', when he singlehandedly took over the ship against the combined efforts of the rest of the crew.  That was a great moment, I thought.

This actually puts a really unfortunate spin on the events of 'Measure of a Man'.  It certainly suggests that Data is a lot less than ruled to be in that episode.

It strikes me as a question that might be too subjective to answer, but if you held a gun to my head, I'd go with "The Immunity Syndrome".

Also, the chip will magically change appearance and size.

The answer to this question is clearly 'no.'  While TNG occasionally has offhand references to the original series, it is almost entirely a stand-alone show.  The sole exception is when the episode is based around characters from the original series, and there are only three of those (Sarek, Unification Part 2, and…

I, for one, am not mad at Mr. Plinkett; I'm rather grateful for the hours of hilarious, top-notch entertainment he's provided.  I simply think that his review of First Contact is too nitpicky, and misses the forest for the trees.  I think Picard's actions are explainable in terms of his PTSD, and that Mr. Plinkett…

Yup.

'Fanboy stuff that doesn't appeal to fans'.

Heck, violating secondary and tertiary directives are practically required.

Just because you agree with him doesn't make him right.

I think people were positively responding to the idea of Nemesis rather than the reality.  It reminds me of when The Phantom Menace came out.  Criticism of it was more or less muted, simply because people couldn't and psychologically wouldn't process how terrible it was.  Trek fans were so happy that a new TNG movie…

To be fair to Mr. Plinkett, he's usually on target, often hilariously so.  I think his First Contact review was a rare misfire.

To be court-martialed?

Fair enough.

That's not what an ad hominem is.  Eponymous is criticizing the arguments in your posts, not attacking you personally.  An ad hominem argument would be 'You are a bad person, so your posts can be disregarded.'

What did you hate about the Eye of Sauron?  It seemed to me to be a reasonable adaptation of the book.

It was and it wasn't.  It's not like it's hard to guess, but seeing it actualized at the end of the movie was pure Trek magic.  There's a reason we love this franchise, and that moment captured it.

The universally-reviled finale of Enterprise, "These Are the Voyages…", was also described by Berman & Braga as 'a love letter to the fans'.  There's something about those words that jinxes the whole endeavor.

I'm also punctual, insofar as I exist at a point.

2nd season, actually.  The show was entitled 'Regeneration', and it was one of the high points of Enterprise's generally misbegotten second season.