Whether or not the Dominion "scoff[s] at the idea of gods", I'm pretty sure that they're aware of the existence of higher-level beings, and try not to mess with them if they can avoid it.

That looks like more of a collector book, with a corresponding price tag. The Star Charts book is much more affordable (at least, if you get it used), and gives the basic info, although one of the reviewers faults it for not getting some of the Delta Quadrant info from Voyager correct.

The Pah-Wraith-Crazy stuff pretty much works for me. Even though his role in the series-ending arc is a little, ah, improbable, it makes for a great little moment between Weyoun and Damar where the latter thinks that the former has busted him for a bad thing that he did, but instead it's the former talking about what…

@avclub-434595294319a649cb06aa9f6b039552:disqus : Do you even like DS9, bro?

he's ultra-conservative and thinks sex needs to be validated by marriage. (Don't recall if they explicitly say this, but it's a credible reading of stuff he does say.)

You left out one of my very favorite lines in DS9 (and, therefore, the entire Trek franchise): "Time to start packing."

The old adage that those who can't do, teach, may be the most true with regards to film school graduates. Or, to put it in Breaking Bad terms, "just because you shot Jesse James doesn't make you Jesse James."

That was my impression, too. I wonder if he's the sort of guy who has problems with personal boundaries; he's had a tendency to date his female co-stars, and his opposition to vaccination lasted about exactly as long as his relationship with McCarthy. (He ended up getting a vaccination for a film that he was shooting…

@avclub-52ed1f89cb6f846e8efba0e4eacf9c27:disqus : Are you talking about the Laser Cats sketch that Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron took part in? Because that was hilarious.

It's worth revisiting what Phil LaMarr said in his IAmA on Reddit: "I really enjoyed the work we did in the first two years of MadTV. Unfortunately, I was on it for 5."

I ran hot and cold on it. When they were really on, they were loads better than SNL, but when they were phoning it in it was just sad. I stopped watching maybe five years before it finally went off the air, and even then some of the performers had stopped being funny. (Michael McDonald had been on the show for ten…

@avclub-d1348cfe54a94fe6f986775cedd75fdd:disqus : I got to the point where I'd have to leave the room during a Stuart sketch to avoid putting my foot through the screen.

There were basically two types of celebrity impressions on MADtv. One was this sort of over-the-top hatefest where they had to keep telling you who was being made fun of because the comedian looked, sounded, and acted nothing like the celebrity. (Think of Will Sasso doing Kenny Rogers, for instance.) And then there…

@avclub-d7ef203a5de7a79bebb72394bac866f7:disqus , all of Voyager could have been pretty amazing. Imagine a show in which the Starfleet-Maquis conflict isn't papered over quickly, but becomes a running source of tension, conflict, and even growth among the crew.

Me with the 47-shot Beretta automatic pistol, blowing bad guys off balconies and stuff while “Red Rain” was pumping in my ears.

You think that's something, look at some of the names floated for Superman.

I thought it was the result of an imbalance of humours.

@avclub-8e3d05b3a02cebcb45d304a5224a6113:disqus : We get it, Dad. It's all been downhill since Matlock went off the air. Speaking of which, I'm emailing you a list of other things to talk about at Thanksgiving, please have Mom print it off for you.

I was pretty disappointed by Let's Dance myself, especially after Scary Monsters, which was just brilliant, but this version of the title cut goes a long way toward redeeming it. (The best version of the Cat People song is still the original with Moroder, though.)

Vajabsolutely!