Existence has no bearing on grammar. Go over to the DS9 reviews and try saying Bajor or Starfleet shouldn't be regarded as proper nouns because they refer to fictional entities. No one will care, but they'll briefly think it's a very strange point.

I was rewatching the regeneration scene, and "pure fucking class" came back into my head. It's so true. I conceptualize what regenerating "feels like" as being something like getting all the personal growth between, say, graduating high school and graduating college in one instant. The ingredients are all the same,…

I heard that the accent was Nimoy's idea, or that he was at least on-board for it. That's part of the reason for Spock's somewhat stilted diction (he always says "Please" and "Thank You," even in a crisis) and his unusual pronunciations and ways of emphasizing syllables. It's most noticeable in the earlier episodes,…

I don't think they particularly liked Garrett Wang (or maybe just the character of Kim) in the writers' room. He was originally going to be killed off to make room in the budget to hire Jeri Ryan, but was kept on after he ended up on People's 50 Sexiest Men list or something, so they got rid of Kes, instead.

I was so delighted that Day of the Doctor didn't have any of the stuff I hated about the Tenth Doctor (which had really started cranking up near the end there), but then I remembered the he was never really objectionable in Moffat's episodes, so it made sense.

The Doctor says something about how two sets of them being there made it a vulnerable point in history. It's a bit like "The Angels Take Manhattan:" too much time-travel changing history in one place and time makes bad things happen, or un-happen. Rose saving her dad in that way caused an ontological pile-up. If Pete…

That's originally from Allan Sherman's "Shticks of One And A Half A Dozen of The Other"

Looks like. I'm not going to go so far as to say it's a shame, but the Moffat design could've been salvaged. The original designs didn't have the hunchbacked look to them (and to their credit, the production team quickly learned to shoot around their hump, so the new Daleks have looked much better in every episode…

Not happily. There were some novels that stitched together what we knew of the occupation. When Dukat got bored with Maru and moved on to Ziyal's mother, Meru was sent away to be one of Crell Moset's lab rats (a "Voyager" reference, where an episode introduced him as the Cardassian Josef Mengele). The "Cardassian…

This vignette seems eerily familiar…

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They did start to play with the idea of an international UNIT in the season three finale, where the U.S. President comes in as a representative of UNIT, and in the season four finale, where we see a UNIT office in New York.

Someone in Miami is in love with the Rockford Files. They've been running reruns of it at 1 or 2 in the afternoon on the local Fox affiliate for, as near as I can recall, my entire life.

Same. I watched TToI and "In the Loop" a couple months ago. I second the recommendation to watch "In the Loop" first. It also helps that I'm bad with faces, so I didn't really recognize anyone when I started watching the show to the point where it was distracting, but after four seasons, I definitely notice the reused…

The retractable-roof back porch is way more awesome than a lousy slide projector.

"No one seems cool in front of their parents."
"Not even Sean Connery?"

But was Baldwin using the terms specifically in a homophobic sense, or just as profanity? In my experience, if you're using homophobic slurs where "you're gay" is an insult, you're much more likely to use "polite" ones like "pansy" or "fairy." When it's just a stream of bleepable words like Baldwin's outbursts, it…

Also, "The Name of the Doctor," which revolved entirely around ambiguous grammar. Both the title, "[In] the name of the Doctor" and "The Doctor will take a secret to his grave. It is discovered," which has three levels.

The in-joke with the flour sack was cute. http://www.animatorisland.c…

See, that's the exact problem with that sort of casting. Rather than allowing the continuum of types that white people are afforded by being the "default" of America, shoving minority characters into leadership roles sets up a dichotomy. Black characters become either criminals and poor people, or they're the "good…