He was a day player at first…I think he was probably in a different classification of character…kinda like an orphan owned by the studio.

weren't there some twins?  That had good potential.

I go to Chernoble in Modern Warfare.

I had the SNES version.  In retrospect, pretty terrible, but I ate that shit up.

yeah depending on where they work, they also make a metric fuckton of money without having to worry about malpractice insurance.  Many docs, especially the young ones, envy the nurses.  They do just as much cool stuff, professionally speaking, without the med school debt, the insurance bill, and the tireless schedule.

yeah, nurses are a lot more important to our medical system than is commonly thought…but a lot of the work patients see them do is equivalent to someone seeing an executive make his/her own copies and thinking they only do secretarial work.

I believe, once again, Plinkett gets it right.  The point of including the Kobayashi Maru wasn't to mine and develop a rich character touchpoint, but to include a reference trekkies would get without alienating a mainstream audience.

broader cultural commentary on our times.

right, or that someone can't learn something about you by watching how you approach a task you know you can't achieve.

physics joke acknowledged without the need for wikipedia.  No luminiferous ether for us!

Hey!  That one time they played the credits before the title sequence.  That was bold.

indeed.  Amazing stuff.

I've given that exam to my wife.

Let me ask you this:  Since Kirk did not know the nature of the problem (and that it would require a sacrifice) would a single line of throwaway dialogue: "Spock, get down there and see what the problem is" alleviate your concerns?

It says the same exact thing (well, more or less) in here: http://www.usni.org/node/1480

if everyone had an automatic instinct for self-sacrifice, that would kind of dilute the profundity it when it happens, right?

I would like this, but Disqus sucks and won't let me.

I agree, but I see a crucial difference: in generations it was part of Kirk's arc that he was a has-been.  Sacrificing himself (twice) was a bid to be relevant one last time.  Genesis sucks, but there's a nice theme in there somewhere.

Let me get this straight. You were so unimpressed with the drama of Lower Decks because it centered on 5 new characters with no backstory…

No way, man.