That's mostly me forgetting the names of actors and I jumble up some of my favorite pop culture in my head. Also I can't remember the name of the character in that episode either (Loki maybe?). Having loved Batman growing up, he's The Riddler.

I don't think I've seen it since it first aired. Hated it then. The opinions expressed about it from other people have kept me from ever wondering if it is worth revisiting. I mostly remember hating the Okona guy and also thinking Data's attempts at comedy were really awful.

Er, oomph? Umph?

Totally agree, Eponymous. I like that the GLB retains its alien-ness. With Q, we get to know him, and eventually even like the omnipotent scamp. On TOS, we had little shits like Trelane or Adonis. The monkey-face-in-space of "Silence" stays more or less inexplicable. Even the killing of a redshirt packs a very…

"In Theory"?

Is that a Titleist?

Pron? Patriotyczny Ruch Odrodzenia Narodowego?

I appreciated that.

The headline here seemed like a joke. I'd not known that superhero panhandlers (band name idea?) were a thing in LA (never having been there).

That's the episode I was referring to; I forgot the name.

Didn't that Raymond show do a bunch of episodes in church?

That episode and the one with the Scrooge-esque guy who at the end ends up giving people gifts because he just wanted to be loved or something are two I remember a lot from being a kid; not sure they'd do anything for me emotionally now, but they did when I was very little.

RFD?

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Self-destruct use
Zach: Yes, Kirk did use the threat of self-destruct before, in the episode where The Riddler took over the ship with his mind.

"it plays like a Merchant Ivory production of a V.C. Andrews novel"
That's PERFECT. Yeah, it seemed like a TNG version of some story that aired on Lifetime after Unsolved Mysteries. I *despise* that episode. (But I'm pretty sure - and some Trek nerd will correct me - that "The Child" was originally an episode…

I always saw it as the kind of shit short-tempered people do when they are angry. McCoy obviously cared a great deal and was passionate; they built his character that way, so it was easier to forgive him for those moments. Pulaski, though, didn't "earn" it. Her character was a pretty large miscalculation, I think.

IRON EAGLE!

I agree. I actually just watched Ship in a Bottle, and it was pretty great.

Samantha is the smoke monster