"Bruce, it is your…destiny…to be the best fighter in the world."
[lens flare, enormous explosion, people running around]

"Chuck Norris doesn't endorse candidates, they endorse him. Speaking of which, Chuck, when are they finally going to inaugurate President Rick Perry?"

You'd probably have to make the premise "kick the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan" which was invaded that year, because otherwise it sounds like they're going to torch collective farms and blow up factories of people who didn't really do anything to deserve it.

Sadly, I doubt it'll ever get made. Carell's momentum coming off the Office has petered out. Bryan Cranston, be careful. Take whatever lessons you can.

A reparations plan that every white Mississippian can endorse!

On the other hand, the lost version of Orson Welles's Magnificent Ambersons is supposed to be great, as opposed to the studio-butchered one that made it out.

Yeah, the most recent guy they named was the guy who tried to stop NY from legalizing same-sex marriage. So, a perfect fit for New York, obviously.

Amelie Gillette, back in the house?

Well, the women's rights progress had been building really since "Family Business" in season three. And women are typically more progressive then men in most places, so it's not much of a stretch that their integration into society had huge changes.

Definitely tough stuff. And the ending is just perfect. He's not the same person afterward.

Cool! I'm a subscriber to the podcast, so I'll be hearing it soon enough.

I thought they were doing another iteration of The Swan. Only now it's celebreality, so I suppose it's not exactly like they used to…

Old people like what older people before them liked. Just think of Baby Boomers listening to Rod Stewart singing How Are You Going To Keep Them Down On The Farm or whatever. So today's middle-aged people will discover the glories of CSI soon enough.

Underwood stated in the first episode that he will drive a stake into the heart of the President Walker’s agenda, thereby crippling his effectiveness as leader of the free world.

Chris Brown and Rihanna: our generation's Sid and Nancy.

It's never explained. I like the idea that Quark is different from other Ferengi and doesn't quite fit in a pure Ferengi mold.

True enough, and "Moonlight" definitely feels like a climax or resolution to that thread. Arguably, you could say that it continues in "Inter Arma" except that the focal point goes from Sisko to Bashir. But the corruption/compromise tension is still there.

The glib response to the late Ms. B would be that TNG was indeed the sort of show that Gene wanted. And so was Voyager. And so was Enterprise. Series after series followed his dictates (or their own interpretations thereof), and it turns out there a wee bit limiting.

That's an interesting connection. The decisions that have to be made in both episodes strongly parallel each other. Different tones and everything.

Trek always seems to be taking place in an alternate timeline in which the Beatles never happened, let alone punk rock.