Sorry, I should have been clearer: I meant she's had virtually no opposition even among other Democrats. I do know that the winner of the Dem nomination becomes the very likely winner in any general election in DC, including mayor and city council elections.

Although I haven't seen it, I know that Streets of Laredo was itself turned into a miniseries (with James Garner as Captain Call). Does it follow the plot of the novel in killing off this same character? (As an admirer of Lonesome Dove, I did skim through the Streets novel once, and I think I know which character you…

It's a reboot because, even if you exclude its sequel-to-"Space Seed" elements, The Wrath of Khan places TMP into its own "pocket universe" (a term I borrow from Gregory Benford's excellent 1980 novel Timescape). That is, in the world of TWoK, the events of TMP never occurred and no time has elapsed from one to the…

True, but if the position meant anything, Eleanor Holmes Norton would have had more than the token opposition she's faced during her thirteen re-elections to the delegate post she first won in 1990.

Huh. I didn't realize there are any such series today, although I thought Wiseguy (1987-90) did a good job mixing arcs with stand-alone stories (which sometimes referred obliquely to events in prior arcs). What current series are you referring to?

Star Trek II would qualify, except that it's (i) not a sequel to Star Trek TMP but rather to "Space Seed," (ii) a reboot of what they'd started with TMP, (iii) a little of both; take your pick.

Even venues that would seem to be safe can be incredibly dangerous. Oscillations from people rhythmically dancing on badly engineered suspended walkways in a hotel atrium led to a much larger loss of life in Kansas City in 1981; search for "Hyatt Regency walkway collapse" for details.

Yes, it is ironic - an irony Meyer himself would appreciate. (His memoir is good - I recommend it.)

That's not saying much, is my point. TNG already performed this trick once, and only by dint of lucky personnel changes did it eventually succeed.

It's largely because the whole effort is (ostensibly) dedicated to keeping alive something that's better left as it is - a show (and movie series) that was a product of its time and worked as well as it did because of the original set of characters and the actors who played them. Some TNG episodes rose to the same…

Despite the hiring of Nicholas Meyer, it's beginning to look like this series will be Star Trek in name only - and in that respect much like the recent movies. Who needs it? Why should I believe that whatever they eventually produce will bear any resemblance to the dozens of episodes of the original series and the…

I see it's corrected - thanks.

Because Logan's Run is mentioned by another commenter, thought I'd mention that co-author William F. Nolan's SF detective spoof Space for Hire (1971) includes a scene aboard the passenger spaceship President Reagan.

Marj Dusay is possibly better known as the main guest star in Star Trek's third-season premiere, "Spock's Brain" (September 1968); she gets the immortal line "Brain and brain! What is brain!?"

I question the idea that a "close adaptation" of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? could be made; Blade Runner, whatever its merits, certainly wasn't that. A close adaptation would have to provide the context of the novel: the post-apocalyptic aftermath of the final world war (i.e., World War Terminus), which is…

"Carrie-Anne" by the Hollies.

Palladino, as he is want to do…

It would have been so easy to indicate that they were crossing the line into VA or MD if this had been the case. More likely the writers (or the story editor) were simply unaware.

Unmentioned in the episode: Whom would Kirkman and his wife have voted for in the congressional election? Washington, D.C. has no full-fledged members of Congress - only a single nonvoting delegate in the House, and no senators. Does DS take place in an America in which D.C. has been granted statehood? Or were the…

I know the novel quite well, and the series has little in common with it. Very few of the characters appear as they do in the novel; most of them were created for the series.