Remember, though, that people were supposed to be less freaked out by death in the 24th century. That's all over the script for the one with the kid's dead mother.

@Asuka:

@The Pig In Zen:

President Bush doesn't sound very pleasant to me, Paul. I grant that Paul O'Neill isn't an unbiased source himself, but his descriptions of GW Bush make him sound very unpleasant. He forced nicknames on everyone, certainly not names they came up with themselves. O'Neill characterized that as, "I've given you a name,…

I'm not buying your confluence of technique and content, Foosball. Making them synonymous eliminates a useful distinction.

I had never heard of them until this week. Somehow, "The Suburbs" wound up in the corporate playlist at my store, and I liked the tune, so I wrote down a couple of the lyrics, and voila! A new band to listen to.

"…[A]s soon as he no longer makes me feel like a pedophile." Well, jeez, idiotking, how long are you planning to wait? He turns seventeen in less than month.

@Jean-Luc Prickhard: The problem with Sisko is that his bad-assness comes from him basing decisions on what he feels. He's too emotional, and it blinds his judgment. Picard can be equally devious, but one gets the impression that everything he does is the result of icy deliberation.