I'm pretty sure at this point, Dax is a Lt. Cmdr, while Julian is just a Lieutenant, so her command authority is a given. Plus she commanded the Defiant in Sisko's absence during the occupation arc.

I would argue that StarBrand wasn't covering exactly the same topic as Moore.

I less saw it as "not bogged down" and more, "continuity focused and streamlined". Ultimate Spider-Man, especially, came off like someone had taken forty years of Spider-Man stories and boiled them down to a purer, more focused essence.

The New Universe certainly suffered from saying, "Everyone should be on the same page" and then no one was on the same page at all. Psi-Force and DP7, and to a lesser extent Star Brand, were the strongest because they hewed closest to the underlying concept: the "real world" where suddenly super powers were just…

I thought it was Jess, Finn and Abbey.

Second most perfect.

No comments on the other guy's "trapped in the closet" power?

Isn't that, in essence, what Eragon is?

I loved Quantum Leap, but it definitely would rip its still-beating progressive heart out of its chest and strap it onto its sleeve.

Was he also going to college at the time?

True, but I can see how you can take that as people saying, "Hey, you know which episode of your space show was best? The one that ignored most of that space stuff and was set in the 1950s."

And also, perhaps, the idea that the fight in and of itself is sometimes of greater value than whether you can win the fight or not.

I'm given to understand it's not about constricting or impeding growth. It's more like Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, just obscuring the obvious femininity.

Three O'Clock, that is!

So you're the other person who loves that movie.

Damar go all Alamo, you say?

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus Actually, it was Tim Lynch.  He did a rather neat two-sided review, that on one-hand the episode was good drama and worldbuilding, but on the other hand the underlying "genetic destiny" and bad science drove him NUTS.

Prelude to Foundation/Forward the Foundation: "What if I wrote myself into a corner, so I just wrote prequels instead?"

I had read somewhere that the original plan for "Insurrection" involved the bad guys being The Dominion, but studio edict demanded a re-write to make it more standalone. (And thus the So'na had two 'servant' species on their ships.)

Klingons have a lot of organ redundancy (from TNG's "Ethics"), so it stands to reason they could have similar lifespans but be heartier in those end-of-life moments.  One liver goes, you've got a back-up, so… all good.