Perhaps this is excessively nerdy of me, but I was kind of hoping for an opinion on the upcoming Expanse TV show, even though I know it doesn't start until December. (I'm optimistic, but that is mostly because I'm hoping that Zack will cover it and that we get the old DS9 gang back together.)

And of course, part of the tragedy of all this is that the motherland they serve is falling apart at the seams. It is what? 1984? 85? here? The Soviet Union is already starting to show its cracks, and it has only four more years of empire left, and another three after that to trundle along. Where will the Jennings be…

Is that true, as in something said repeatedly and not in jest? Cause that would kind of suck as an ending.

Wow.

Of course, an interested amateur is almost certainly familiar with this period of history, in broad and dangerously facile outline, and much focused on the Second World War and Hitler: the incredibly pernicious commonplaces of Versailles and Munich, Fraz Ferdinand and Gavrilo Princip, railroad timetables and and how…

It is impossible to translate. Sorry.

Technically, the last we see of the AQ' is after Spock shoots back to AQ'' and then ST:Online starts up a quarter century or so later. It has its moments, but for the most part the story is terrible, and since it has gone free to play, it has gotten worse. Unless it has improved a great deal in the last year or so; it…

I disagree. It is a style thing; I think Quantum Leap is an 80s show with early 90s concerns; Law & Order was an 80s show until it was killed and replaced by zombie!L&O in 95/96.

Be advised: while iTunes sells the first three seasons, for reason that I do not understand, the pilot only downloads (at least for me) as a 30 second clip. All the rest is fine, though.

The first five seasons, L&O was just a great show, something it is really easy to forget now. Stone was both a more interesting character and Moriarty a more interesting actor than McCoy and Waterson (and he was at his best when they were still trying to write toward Stone); ones Moriarty left and they dumped…

I've always really hated that NCC-7425-X shit, you know? I get why they did it. But it is really stupid all the same, and my real hope is that in the unlikely event that we ever again get good Trek again — and that Paramount ever gives us back the twenty or so years of Trek continuity that made those fucking Abrams…

Yeah. That's a very good point, actually. And given that you can still see that it is wrong if you look at the FX shots no matter what, there is no good reason not to except — something? (god help me for knowing this: the second Defiant keeps the Sao Paulo's hull number, as God intended. The FX of course has the old…

That, and effects budget stuff — they used the same sets and many of the same FX shots. As far as renaming goes, during WW2, any number of ships were renamed while they were still on the ways for reasons both political and sentimental: off the top of my head the carriers Wasp, Lexington, Yorktown, Hornet, and…

Yeah, this is spoiler stuff.

Yeah. Just… yeah. I will never forgive JJ Abrams. Ever. His whole film making career has demonstrated that he flat doesn't get that just because you didn't understand it when you were twelve doesn't mean that there was nothing there to be understood.

Falling Skies isn't even close to the same. I've watched it as well, although I think I drifted away toward the end of last year. It HAS A STORY TO TELL, for one thing — 10, 12 episode seasons, again — and on top of that it often doesn't know quite what that story is. It has had some strong moments, especially in the…

God. I'm kinda heartbroken to reach the end. Because I've enjoyed the
commentary so much, and the chance to watch along especially with Zach
being essentially unfamiliar with DS9; it really did give me some of the
feeling of being able to watch for the first time again. I miss DS9 a
great deal, I find. None of the…

Hah! Someone else who has read The Bear went Over the Mountain. Totally off topic, but interesting all the same, if you haven't read The Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon. Not closely related, but very interesting on the subject of the experience of military organizations that find themselves entering war after an…

… Wow. That was some serious mental whiplash. Having an actor named David Haig come up in a discussion having to do with the first world war creates weird imagery.

The Cardassian Voles!