not getting any results YOU STUPID CHIEF!

Do we know Kirk had the technical know-how to fix the core?

Isn't the whole point of Spock's character arc (and Kirk's eulogy) that he discovers the limits of logic and the appeal of human 'qualities' like self-sacrifice?

That was amazing.  Thank you sir.

touche.  Children's television, wildlife documentaries and comedy explains a lot about next's week's "Genesis" i suppose.  Joke's on us, I guess.

I didn't feel like they were particularly one-dimensional (at least given that they were one-off characters).

Indeed.  I agree it doesn't strike me as whining, but then again I've been stuck on the lower decks for a while.

arguably, i've done more in my life that I thought would please Captain Picard than I have for my own father.

"And I don't even know WTF is going on in 'Masks'."

I loved that.  I can never do anything but laugh at the whole R. Lee Ermy brash and abusive drill sergeant character, but for some reason Tuvok in this role was intimidating as hell.

In the future, it's normal and acceptable for waiters to have Master's Degrees.

Both Nog and Rom started out this way.  Rom in particular was a complete throwaway Ferengi in the early eps.

Cookie, your Junior officers take over plot actually happens in DS9.  They're cadets, though.

This was originally supposed to be the structure of the West Wing.  Martin Sheen was only supposed to be in like 4 episodes per season.  JLLemur outlines the problem with that below…it's kind of like at my job when my boss gets called in to deal with something with her bosses…and I go to the bar and muse about what…

"the main cast is functionally immortal."

yuck.

Nice. I feel like that has to be an ol' timey jazz standard.

agreed on the exclusion of Shades.  it's just not fair.

you know what, to hell with it: Up the Long Ladder was bad, but fun.

Angel One
Code of Honor
The Child
Sub Rosa
Up the Long Ladder