Wait, ALF was a puppet?

Trilobiter, you're my Internet Hero for the day.

WHY WON'T BLACK PEOPLE LET ME USE THE N-WORD? NOT THAT I WOULD EVER SAY IT, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE BLACK PEOPLE, BUT MAN AM I AS A WHITE PERSON BOTHERED BY MY INABILITY TO USE THIS ONE RACIAL SLUR THAT I OF COURSE WOULD NEVER USE!

I doubt that the movie version of Ra's is actually immortal. Hell, Nolan said that the Penguin would be too weird for his "realistic" Batman movies; I seriously doubt he's going to have Lazarus pits. The one nod to Ra's al Ghul's comic book immortality in "Batman Begins" was the notion that there's always a stand-in…

McCarthy is playing Egghead, Herzog is playing King Tut.

Data's brain isn't the same as a human brain, but it's not as different from being a human brain as, say, an end table is. It's a brain. Some are made out of squishy carbon stuff, some are hard and made of silicon and metal. They're still brains. Presumably, bodiless brain-possessing energy beings can still possess…

SEE YOU AT DA PAHTEE, SUPA CAH

Whedon and Claremont
Whedon's built his career from riffing on old Chris Claremont comics, so it's not surprising that he'd do his own take on "Dark Phoenix" here. What's always sucked about this storyline is that Whedon wusses out - much as Claremont originally wanted to - by letting Willow live.

My biggest problem with "Eye of the Beholder" is that it's so obvious from the start that since Picard and Crusher's faces are always in shadow, that once they take the bandages off Troi's face that she's going to look normal and they're going to be fucked-up-looking pig people.

Re: Data getting possessed: there's nothing particularly magical about Data's brain versus a human brain. Data has a brain made of silicon; humans have brains made of carbon. They both store memories and fire electrical impulses. In the world of TNG, some forces and technologies can affect human brains, some can…

"the Klingons, originally based on the Zulu"

Picard would only be Space Obama if Picard was going around blowing up Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, and the occasional Vulcan on a daily basis, under the pretense that this somehow protected everyone from the Borg.

"Anonymous Marilyn Manson Fan"

Biggie had asthma?
No shit!

So
Equus was about Harry Potter having sex with horses, right?

Hey, racists - here's a tip! When you shut up, you sound less stupid than you do when you're talking!

I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all!

The Penguin is not insane. He's a straight-up criminal; when he gets arrested he goes to big-boy jail.

"it wasn't that far of a stretch considering the (lack of) genetic diversity in Egyptian high society."

I never knew why Worf, as a Klingon, would be sexually conservative anyway. Aren't they all about the freaky kink sex? Don't they have "mates" rather than, or at least in addition to, by-the-numbers human-style lifelong monogamous pair-bonding? Hasn't every Klingon woman we've ever been introduced to seemed pretty…