This episode is some of the least artful art I can think of. All the ingredients are there, but short of a couple grace notes (like Auberjonois' understated performance) I find that they're clumsily handled and amount to less than they should.

Ah-ha! The Vulcan bolt-ons explained at last. I wouldn't really have thought they as a race would have gone in for cosmetic breast augmentation.

Yeah, there were a dozen tweets or so put up over six months. They were mildly funny.

The same could be said of TNG's "The Inner Light", though.

That's rough. Lofton comes across like he's auditioning for a bit part in a local production of Guys & Dolls.

I don't entirely hate it, but I don't much like having to deal with it either. These boards have lost a lot of appeal for me since they changed the appearance and interface to something unpleasant.

Jesus Christ, singling out McCoy like that is rough. He might not be as high-energy as Kalan or as dry as Wellington, but he's the glue holding the whole thing together—the bread in the sandwich, if you will.

I dunno, seems like a pretty fair grade for 'serviceable'. You won't particularly enjoy a C- hamburger, but it's not disgusting and at least you won't be hungry anymore.

There's Thor. Dude's got dreamy blue eyes and arms like prizewinning hogs. Seems to go over pretty well with "the ladies".

Oh shit, the Neutrinos. That just unlocked a lobe of my brain that I'd no idea was dormant.

TMNT 2 was a good time at the movies for this eleven-year-old. Even at the time I don't remember thinking it was good, exactly, but fighting Tokka and Rahzar while Vanilla Ice jammed in the background put a smile on my young face.

I agree, but I suspect that sentiment is verboten around here.

Are you implying that Colonel John Matrix isn't a well-rounded, fully fleshed out character rife with subtlety and death?

It's sometimes good but wildly uneven. Generally worth a watch, but be prepared for some dramatic fluctuations in writing quality, performance and general plausibility.

Not to mention that he just sits there listing his bona fides. That's as Sorkin as a walk-and-talk.

@stepped_pyramids:disqus That's what Star Trek needs: Ur-Quan and Kohr-Ah.

@Kumagoro:disqus Ward's immaculate appearance is, at least, part of his character. He's a young, ambitious, by-the-book FBI agent, so it makes a certain amount of sense that he would be fit and well-groomed. Too well-groomed, really, because it's a Marvel TV show, but what're you gonna do.

Agreed. Those are all of them problems, and big ones. I don't know how they can make the show interesting without profound changes in pacing, tone and content, because right now I feel like I've seen it before I've seen it.

I hope so. That would show more depth and long-range thinking than this show seems capable of at the moment.

There's "pretty" and then there's "TV pretty".