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    Your remarks about Voyager and Janeway point out one of the big problems with that show in general, and not just with Janeway's character: most of the Voyager cast didn't really have a significant character arc. The exceptions were the Doctor, who wasn't considered a "real" character at first (whether or not the…

    There's actually the seed of a better movie in the middle of TLAH, where Jack Slater (Arnold) is talking about how his life just keeps getting more and more fucked up—that is, the sequels in his movie series keep getting more and more brutal—and later, when he gets to confront Arnold (Arnold) and the people who make…

    I always knew that RJS was an OG (or should that be OT?).

    Speaking of whom—there's someone who could probably do a corker of a Random Roles.

    @avclub-b542b0acd215780e72110581624d3593:disqus : point being that these airships had other vulnerabilities besides what they were filled with.

    IIRC, the Hindenburg was originally designed to be filled with helium, and the U.S. had a near-monopoly on helium; the Germans either couldn't buy all that they wanted or didn't want to depend on the U.S. for their supply. (Incidentally, although the Hindenburg's end was much more spectacular, more than twice as many…

    Bowie's not exactly buried in the mix for "All the Young Dudes"—you can definitely tell it's him in the chorus. (Ditto for Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love" in the coda.)

    @Prankster36:disqus : This stuff is actually not that bad. (It's supposed to have zero calories; I'm not sure what it's made out of really, and I'm afraid to ask.)

    Already have, and even though it was probably the most TOS-like of ENT's fourth season (and not in one of the better ways), I've had worse times.

    Funny, I was just thinking of the inevitable porn parody, Much Ado About Cock.

    I'm pretty sure that in Voyager's case, their heavy use of the reset button had a lot to do with the (now-defunct) network UPN's reliance on it (and, later, Enterprise) as its anchor show, which meant that they used reruns of older shows in between seasons, and would therefore try to steer away from any external…

    In addition to the excellent DS9 Companion book (which, if you're seriously into this series, you seriously need to get, seriously), there's an excellent DS9 Technical Manual, which is somewhat less technical than the TNG tech manual (in the sense of being less chock-full of Treknobabble; since the earlier book goes…

    Star Trek Online does that too—taking place thirty years after Nemesis, which is also after Romulus is destroyed, and the galaxy isn't at peace, largely, which gives you more races and starships to fight.

    You're familiar with the Worf Effect[TVTropes]? It mostly goes away in DS9. My theory is that he held back a lot in his earlier years with Starfleet, probably feeling a lot of responsibility as the first Klingon to get a Starfleet commission, and that once he got on the station and stood out a bit less, he got into…

    If you want to see more of the first actress (Cyia Batten) to play Ziyal—a lot, lot more—she's in the fourth season of Enterprise as an Orion slave girl.  (She's also a former member of the Pussycat Dolls.)

    I think that the DS9 Companion has something about that, although the connection was never made in the series itself.

    It had been previously established (in "Paradise Lost", at least, and maybe also "The Search") that the Founders have a vast contempt for "solids" in general, and that contempt could easily lead to underestimation. Witness Weyoun's reaction to Sisko suggesting that the Founders aren't perfect: his reaction suggests…