What it says about the effectiveness of Starfleet counterintelligence
that this state of affairs continues I leave for the reader to decide.

Klingons also revere poets and singers. I mean REVERE them. If you can write and sing an awesome ballad you can be more renowned than many warriors.

It was in fact called Our Universe, it was indeed a National Geographic book, and that section with speculative illustrations on what life on other planets might be like was indeed awesome.

"The Klingon Empire is dying. And it deserves to die."

Logically, there should have been… quite a lot of half-castes on Bajor. The Cardassians were there for fifty years, and Gul Dukat was hardly the only Cardassian to like him some Bajoran ladies.

Why wouldn't they be? Leaving them behind is a win-win for the Cardassian Empire on every level.

I never really get the feeling that Bashir changes Garak's mind about
anything—Garak is extremely difficult to persuade of anything—but he
likes that Bashir tries anyway.

This begs to be a companion twitter for the Season 8 TNG one.

Am I the only one who thought that little Cardassian girl was cute as a goddamn button?

Hard to believe Garak was only in 37 episodes, isn't it? Less than a fifth of the series.

Wait, J.G Hertzler is an actual writer?

You can make a case for that, yeah. "My father is going to burn down the Earth Kingdom, which means you have about a month to learn enough firebending to at least acquit yourself well. Whatever else you think of me [Zuko] I would hope you would at least think I'm not in favor of worldwide genocide, and in the absence…

You are assuming that I'm making a complaint about the writing, rather than a criticism of Iroh as a PERSON.

Sigh. Ignore the double post. The first one didn't go through and also didn't show on my post history, so I assumed disqus ate it. And then of course it did show up in time to embarrass me.

Huh. I feel kind of weird starting a new sub-thread a day later, but I have this big thing I prepared about Mai that I wrote in preparation for this week, and the other Mai/Ty Lee sub-thread isn't really relevant to it, so.

Oh god. It gets worse if you click on him and read the caption on that picture in his profile.

Firebending and airbending actually seem to be "sister elements" in a way. Fire is the only element contingent on another (air) to function, and we're told repeatedly that firebending 'comes from the breath.'

Sorry, but everyone knows that the cartoon litmus test for a soul is "Jurassic Bark."

The Avatar wiki, which is easily found by googling "Avatar Wiki", does in fact cite it's sources.

I dunno, @avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus  Katara says it's an incredible tale. "She was in prison for eight years until we descended in overwhelming force and sprung her" doesn't seem like it would qualify.