Maybe it's all those years I spent temping, but I always tense up watching scenes that take place in an office and someone's holding a coffee cup. Stop flailing about! You're going to spill coffee everywhere!

Maybe it's all those years I spent temping, but I always tense up watching scenes that take place in an office and someone's holding a coffee cup. Stop flailing about! You're going to spill coffee everywhere!

Star Trek is a delightful mix of smart and dumb. You get some neat concepts played out (ooh, a Dyson Sphere!), and some moments of awesome silliness (Kirk making a bazooka out of shit he just found and using it to shoot a giant lizard man!).

Star Trek is a delightful mix of smart and dumb. You get some neat concepts played out (ooh, a Dyson Sphere!), and some moments of awesome silliness (Kirk making a bazooka out of shit he just found and using it to shoot a giant lizard man!).

Wouldn't she be a fetus?

Wouldn't she be a fetus?

I'm all for experiencing art before you criticize it, but dude, you watched all five seasons and hated it the whole time? Stop wasting your life and go out and have some fucking fun!

I'm all for experiencing art before you criticize it, but dude, you watched all five seasons and hated it the whole time? Stop wasting your life and go out and have some fucking fun!

No "Who Loves The Sun" by The Velvet Underground? It's my favourite happy-sounding sound about feeling like shit.

No "Who Loves The Sun" by The Velvet Underground? It's my favourite happy-sounding sound about feeling like shit.

@avclub-92a4841c9f86965effbc29fa6eae9f77:disqus What's really funny is that is that twinge of self-loathing he gets when he tries to convince non-sci-fi fans that they should watch BSG. "No, it's just the name that's nerdy! It's a really awesome show!" It's so adorable that I just can't stay mad at him.

Mine's not too bad, but the other day I finally got my boyfriend (who hates Star Trek but loves BSG) to at least watch Trekkies with me. When they interviewed the guy who explained that he was dressed in drag as his fan fiction character based on "The Royale", my reaction was, "But that wasn't even a good episode!"

It seemed to me that Greg's arguments about going back to Vietnam are good arguments, but the point is that those aren't his real reasons. He didn't join the army out of a sense of patriotic duty, he joined so he could realize his dream of practicing medicine. He's using arguments about patriotic duty to justify…

I agree that Wiener totally misfired in thinking that the audience wasn't going to hate Greg after that rape scene. Did Wiener really think that the audience would judge Greg less harshly because of the time period?

@E.Buzz Miller: I think Joan's priorities have changed a lot since earlier seasons. She likes her job and has figured out that she doesn't need a man to take care of her. I doubt at this point that she even wants another husband.

@avclub-85bd06050f1868adf468605465df26f8:disqus I'm not seeing why you interpret Joan's behaviour as selfish, or that the issue is that she thinks she's more important than the army. Greg keeps making these decisions that have a huge impact on their marriage without bothering to consult her, which is especially…

This is like if someone wrote fan fiction about their own life.

Excessive Shakespeare-quoting Klingon Christopher Plummer is goddamn awesome. People who can't see that are beyond understanding.

I hear you, Yummsh, but some of us like our crazy space costumes and space politics. That shit's exciting for us, and that's why we're nerds. Just live and let live, you know?

My first thought upon seeing the new movie was that all that Kirk/Spock slash suddenly makes sense!