You mean ScariPRACTICE?

I understand the music thing was largely a Berman thing.  He didn't like bombastic music as he thought it sounded cheesy.  He preferred it as low-key as possible.

It was.  In fact, before Takei left to do that movie, Roddenberry showed him the script as a way to encourage him about his expanding role in the coming season.  But he was off filming for the beginning of season two, so a lot of the things Sulu was supposed to do went to Chekov.

1996.  It was the 30th anniversary.  I remember because thought I liked these, I was extremely excited by the episodes that aired in the early fall of 1997.

@avclub-0806ebf2ee5c90a0ca0fd59eddb039f5:disqus @avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus : When I first saw the Sontarans in The Time Warrior I thought of Star Trek: Voyager.

When Garak holds the phaser.

Oh, I certainly didn't mind the fireballs, no matter what the explanation.  The only problem is that explosions like that should have done more weathering to the ships, but that would have gotten out of hand quickly, continuity wise.

I'm guessing around the same time they stopped animating the shield bubble, and started just bathing the ships in fireballs.  I don't think I picked up on it in the 90s, but I guess the reasoning was that the Dominion can fire through shields.  It was probably just and excuse to get it to look cool though.

This is turning into this: http://blip.tv/file/get/Ind…

It's one reason I like Brighton.  I drive maybe once a week tops, and even then, never downtown.  I'd rather go all the way around 95/128, than drive through the mess that is 93.

Well there was Anne Shirley, who named herself after the title character from Anne of Green Gables, after she played her in an adaptation in 1934: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

If the FCC wants to ask The Internet what it thinks about nudity, then soon they'll say "Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually that I hardly noticed."

Earth will join the Federation in 2161, but as a founding member, it probably doesn't apply.

Exactly my point.  The fact that it's uncompromising is what leads to cynicism and what makes it unworkable.  It's often the idealists that turn the most cynical.  Idealism should be tempered with pragmatism and realism.

I'm not sure I'm on board with the glorification of cynicism, as this suggest David Mirkin is.  Cynicism is what happens when a realist worldview gives up hope; it's just as lazy a mode of thought and action as the regurgitation of catch phrases, itself a form of cynicism.

Well also, it reminds me of Plinkett's review of The Phantom Menace in which he asks people to describe the characters without saying what they do or what they look like.  DS9 passes that test with flying colors.

I thought that was 200 Cigarettes or something?

One of the interesting things about DS9 was that the writers tended to say "Who's the best person for the job?" instead of "Who's the captain?  Who's the security chief?  Who's the helmsman?  Who's the engineer?"

They didn't know TNG was going to last seven seasons when they signed everyone on for DS9.  They also didn't know how long DS9 would run.  Any show would be lucky to have six seasons, and lucky to have basically the same cast the whole time.  At least they didn't go through the cast changes of a seaQuest or an Earth:…

@Raymond Luxury-Yacht: Hopefully preparing for next week's battle to the strong?