Not uniformly; most DS9 fans I know think there's some good stuff in the first two seasons, it just hadn't all started clicking yet.

If someone were going to do a BSG-esque re-imagining of TNG (and let's be clear: why would they?), Jack would've been a Q in disguise, helpfully explaining why Wesley's "special" and why our Q is so fascinated with Picard.

Agreed on the Joel/Sydney scene. Even though I knew he wasn't going to hit her or anything, and even though I think he handled it the exact right way, the expression on his face just did such a good job of conveying that feeling of JUST BARELY holding back the dogs of war that I still felt uncomfortable.

I wouldn't call the Sydney resolution a logic problem, just working on an abbreviated time scale. Which is annoying, but one of those things I'll just accept in episodic TV.

I don't know that she's that much prettier than Jasmine or Julia, or even Sarah, but that's also not a very useful comparison. For all the mundane elements of the Braverman world, this cast is actually gorgeous.

Your analysis ignores the critical aspect of why thinks postponing it will help him get re-elected. Don't worry, I'll fill it in for you: Because there's been a massive display of public anger at corporate influence peddling.

Yes, people like you, and ideas like that one.

I like to think that Ron single handedly and successfully campaign to have "NONE OF THESE" placed on the ballot for every Pawnee election, and votes for that. Yes, he's libertarian, but besides Leslie, anyone who can actually attain enough power to put themselves on the ballot is not to be trusted.

I really fail to see how it's appreciably dumber than chanting the school's initials or colors. College athletic chants are unkind to truly chilling threats.

No, he's still a commander because he's a high functioning alcoholic. We covered this in like, season 2.

I just don't see what good Kirk was going to do down there- see who was up and about and could explain and fix the problem? I guess, but I don't know why he'd assume someone was that up and able when they weren't even answering the comm. He could go down there and try to fix it himself, but 1) we also seem to be…

It's not that it would "push it over the top", it's that it would add nothing to the scene. You actually don't need every other possible scenario eliminated for the plot to work, in this or any other work.

I don't think so. There are a dozen arguments that Spock would find compelling as to why he had to be the one to die, from the fact that yes, he was second-in-command, but first in command and the rest of the senior staff could handle the mission admirably, to better for an aged officer who's already lived a valiant…

I think, also, from Spock's perspective he might've been "second-least expendable", but he was a lot closer to #3 than he was to Kirk in that ranking. As I recall, the only threat remaining on that mission was outrunning the Genesis device- after that, it was just getting home, with no indication that that was going…

Then Spock did the right thing by going down there himself.

Then what's the problem with the captain just calling down to engineering to make them fix it?

I think that stuff is pretty realistic, though. Of course they worry about impressing superior officers, their career track depends on that. And of course they vent to their friends about that, and of course friends gossip about each other's love lives. Yeah, they're on a spaceship, and there's danger and science and…

Well, I think part of the issue is, there WAS a pretty strong undercurrent of Diane acting like she had to "fix" everyone else at the bar- she tried to raise the level of culture they experienced, tried to make them more tolerant or less petty, etc. Which, most of the time, she was probably right, but I think it's a…

…you are correct. Comment rescinded.

In other words, as with all forms of pop culture, you have to engage with it on its terms a little. You can't go around complaining that "Schindler's List" wasn't funny enough, or that Die Hard fails the Bechdel test.