I think you should read the novel - still in print, and continuously so since 1959 - and then revisit the issue of the movie's satiric content in the context of the Mobile Infantry being without their powered-armor suits. In the novel, the MI in their powered armor were not at all subject to "pointless" deaths; in…

I think you should read the novel - still in print, and continuously so since 1959 - and then revisit the issue of the movie's satiric content in the context of the Mobile Infantry being without their powered-armor suits. In the novel, the MI in their powered armor were not at all subject to "pointless" deaths; in…

"Life Is Hell" is a somewhat forgivable error, because the "Life in Hell" book-length collections did use that formulation, e.g., "School Is Hell."

David Chase
Any re-analysis of The Sopranos should ideally give some consideration to Chase's various Rockford Files scripts featuring (sometimes comical) mobsters, and whether they were in any way antecedents to Sopranos characters more than 20 years later.

Schiavelli was for me the only memorable character in the movie Ghost, as the subway dweller.

Crosetti's suicide was because Jon Polito had "not been invited to return" (as I've seen it written) to Homicide for its first full-length season in 1994-95, following the 9-episode spring 1993 run and the 4-episode early 1994 run (can you believe NBC only gave it a 4-episode order that year?) - not sure what the…

Carolyn McCormick (Minuet in both TNG episodes) was indeed also Dr. Olivet on Law & Order.

No, sorry, it's simply not true that "They dusted off a lot of Star Trek Phase II scripts to work for TNG" - there were exactly two: "The Child" (first episode of season 2, a result of the writer's strike) and "Devil's Due" (season 4 or 5).

Eponymous has a point. During TNG's original run, "Coming of Age" was the first episode I saw that elicited the reaction "Now that was a decent episode." (Although "We'll Always Have Paris" had its moments too, and that one came earlier, I think.)

Speaking of writing ability, did anyone here ever see the novelization of Star Trek - The Motion Picture that's (probably accurately) credited to Roddenberry? Nearly one word in ten must be italicized in that thing.

Here's a relevant passage from San Diego Jewish World that includes a quote from Armin Shimerman (one of the actors in the first TNG Ferengi episode, and later Quark on DS9):

No, sorry, it was season 2 of TNG that was affected by the writers' strike, not season 1. (The first episode of season 2, "The Child," was adapted from a story treatment written for the revived Star Trek series that was to have anchored a UPN-style network in the mid-1970s, with all the original cast returning except…

The albums would also be good starting point…
My first exposure to most of the Python sketches (including the Spanish Inquisition, the Piranha Brothers, and Spam) was on the album "Another Monty Python Record." The albums are well worth seeking out because they are entirely new syntheses and the sketches flow together…

ST V's big stupid moment, for me, is the scene in the huge maintenance shaft (how many dozens of decks are there in ST V's Enterprise!?) and the fact that, just for the sake of mirroring the opening fall-off-a-cliff rescue scene, there is another long fall, etc. Any Trek fan with half a brain would assume, rightly,…

"Undiscovered Country" title
With respect to "I know Meyer loves Hamlet and all, but he does realize 'the undiscovered country' is death, right?":

My compliments as well.

"Hawksbill Station" was originally a novella (not a short story) and was superior to the later novel. This sort of thing has happened more often than I would like; readers learn of the novel but may never have heard of the more memorable novella. (Other examples are Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon" and Larry…

I would add that Diana Muldaur was not only in two TOS episodes but was also the featured guest star in Roddenberry's 1974 TV movie/failed series pilot Planet Earth - she led a matriarchal society - and perhaps they were simply friends who respected each other. By the time of Planet Earth (a somewhat revised version…

Well, no one calling himself "Daniel J. Travanti" wants to be thought of as young, certainly not by casting agents, but on Lost in Space he was billed as "Dan Travanty".

Just tried it again and it works for me (current version of Safari for Mac). Or try googling "Joanna — precursor of The Way to Eden".