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Every time I pick up my boxset of the show, I flick through the episodes trying to find the one that is great and has a great story and acting and action and one liners and…

The BBC are showing it on the digital channel (BBC4) the government would like to cut funding for too.

No no no. These are Irish Protestants and Catholics we're talking about. One is as horribly conservative and backward as the other.

Breasts? At least he wasn't angry because she's black. Wow, we seem to have shed a prejudice on our way into the 20th century.

More likely she was surprised by the Cork accent in Antrim, or where ever the fuck "Tah, by garrah" is supposed to sound like.

I liked Invasion and The War Games enough to buy the stories instead of waiting on re-runs, but a lot of the episodes are filler in TWG. Could our intrepid reviewer not combine the two reviews into one?

What annoyed me about this episode as a teen, was that this probe interface was another cool bit of technology, that we never saw again in any show or movie in the franchise. Everything boiled down to force fields or psychic powers, nothing more solid and "real".

This is news now? There's been a Who Christmas special for the last couple of years, there not being one would be sort of newsworthy.

At first Serkis and Pegg's accents annoyed me, two English actors putting on a Northern Irish accent in Scotland.

Would Ellison sue 1980s child me, if I confessed dreaming of a world where your lifespan was determined by a watch on your wrist counting down?

I never really thought about it, but the final TNG Borg episode (ignoring the awful feature length episode First Contact) really was a touchy feely 80s send off for the Borg.

GB? Great Britain? OK for us to continue to be racist here in Northern Ireland then? Cool.

Also, nice way to wish Star Trek a happy 45th by suggesting that First Contact is on a par somehow with The Wrath of Khan.

Stewart is an actor the movie didn't deserve, but got and was saved from being more atrocious because of that.

Assimilating Earth in the past would minimise the technological haul. The Borg were originally all about assimilating your biological and cultural distinctiveness. It makes more sense for them to allow a culture to develop before dipping in and sampling.

Totally, I never knew till I watched it.

I don't mind registering and logging in, I do mind the requirement for IE8 or Flash 10, which I of course don't have in work. So I spent an hour glowering at the screen and watching comments build up, half an hour walking home, fifteen minutes waiting for this damn thing to boot up, go online and login.

The Caves of Adrozani is the earliest story I can remember in full. But if anything from earlier Who stuck in my mind, it was the Cybermen smashing their way out from hiding on the freighter, stern stuff for a youngster!

Just so you know, tests on a UK viewer of 5 1/2 years of age proved it to be not scary after all.