No. JMS had the advantage of having an unprecedented amount of control over the series, because Warner Bros. wanted its own version of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was at the time (and may still be) the most popular syndicated program ever. JMS has always been singularly obnoxious about insisting that DS9…

IIRC, goatee at the beginning of three, shaved head at the beginning of 4.

And while we're at it, who can't do the Bartman, if a bunch of random grade school kids can?

Christ, what an asshole.

Voyager had some surprisingly good episodes that were better at being science fiction than most Star Trek in general (for example: "Blink of an Eye", in which the ship orbits a planet on which time passes much faster than in the rest of the universe), and it had a lot of interesting premises that never got followed up…

I can understand someone wanting to cut to the good stuff—there's a lot of episodes that concern themselves with Bajoran politics in the first two seasons that I'm not fond of—but there are still so many great individual episodes there: the first Mirror Universe episode, "Duet", "The Wire" (no relation), and if you…

It's not canon (i.e. in one of the shows), but the official "technical manuals" that accompanied TNG and DS9 made it clear that, yes, having a starship-scale replicator (or transporter) wasn't really feasible; in one episode, they made a big deal out of some industrial replicators, and the tech manual illustration…

My list would be:

Cohen would be bigger if his smile didn't look like an O-face, as above.

This. And having Bruce do the 70s version of himself rocked my world so hard that it cannot be unrocked.

He doesn't. Here are my two theories:

Meh. They really should have gone with someone like Dolph Lundgren or Martin Kove (the sensei of the Cobra Kai dojo in Karate Kid) or some other eighties action type as the villain. Seeing Kilmer in the movie just reminded me of his own great eighties movie—Real Genius, which still holds up very well—and it's just sad…

Oh, and she named her son "Draco".

Counterexample: Danica McKellar, aka Winnie from the Wonder Years. Smart, sexy, has an 
Erdős–Bacon number of 6 (the same as Richard Feynman and Natalie Portman).

What the F is your problem? Or did "Dispatches from direct to DVD purgatory" somehow confuse you?

Read an interview recently with some BioWare person who hinted that the planet-mining may be going away in ME3. Me, I thought that the ME2 mining was something to do while you were chatting on the phone, since it took so little of your attention, and if you play through the game again, it gives you a starting bonus of…

No Mass Effect 3? The hell, man.

They really call their network this? I thought that it was some sort of sarcastic nickname by the AVC writer. (I also initially misread it as Smell of a Child, which is disturbing for all sorts of reasons.)

The only Garth Brooks song I've ever owned was his cover of "Hard Luck Woman" on the Kiss My Ass compilation. It was pretty good.

Other great unresolved Trek plotlines: