Exactly! TNG is supposed to be an uplifting series. It ends with: "The crisis is past and they're going on with what they do; the work and the friendships that define their lives continue."

I see your snowglobe and raise you a porcelain revolving Snowman that plays an instrumental version of 'Walking in the Air'.

In addition to the above:

I'm pretty sure that DiCaprio's character did the railing in "Total Eclipse." It was the whiny married fellow who got railed.

He does have a point, Buckaroo….

Jesus, the two of you should just get married and be done with it.

"And if I find that that trust has been misplaced, then I will have to re-evaluate the command structure of this ship. Dismissed." Definitely non-beige.

I always thought of it this way: DS9 is how the future would unfold, given technological advances and alien races. TNG is the way I wish the future would unfold, with fundamental changes to beliefs, motivations, and goals.

What I was saying is that the president should be advocating for a second stimulus, in addition to a hike in the debt ceiling, not calling for a contraction of government when the economy is already wobbly.

A good point, Continue Swimming Naked. It is weird, in a society where people can live to 130+ and 60-something starship captains get to go "Die Hard" on repair crews, that everyone's dad is dead.

@dgf:

You know who acts a lot more like Captain Jellico?

I admire Jon Stewart a great deal. That said, if this secondhand anecdote is true, and Mr Stewart declined, then he's a fucking moron.

The (full) authentic Frakes quote:

Walter, right on about the McIntyre novelizations. They were pretty good, and TWOK was pretty hardcore about the torture, at least when I was reading it in elementary school. One part doesn't hold up: they discuss part of the Genesis programming that's been repurposed into a computer game, and it's (get ready) 50…

I always thought of the Bozeman as being on its own loop, and still do. Think of it: despite all the reminiscences of the Enterprise crew, the only way they can get a message to themselves is through Data's positronic brain. The Bozeman doesn't have an android, so they're helplessly stuck. As for what marked the end…

@Walter Abundas:

Then he'd be caught up in a temporal causality loop, forever reloading and re-reading, with warp core breaches in between.

I single-handedly destroy Professor Kemp's thesis with the following name: Corey Flintoff. He has the perfect voice for a newscaster, and I miss the days when the top of the hour was heralded by, "From NPR News in Washington, I'm Corey Flintoff." Good for him, though, to want to go back to foreign reporting.

@Eponymous: