I don't really blame him, though. The other marshals seem to hold "all that computer stuff" in contempt, even when it's directly responsible for them closing cases.

Agreed. I'm not sorry that everything isn't revolving around Mara Paxton, but it's still a little weird that they set up this character with many layers and icewater in her veins just to have her … scared away, never to return.

Danny really is stupid like a fox, as they say. He's absolutely dumb enough and impulsive enough to be completely plausible when he disguises a crafty maneuver as something moronic.

Well, they're not really cougars.

I really enjoyed Raylan's spectacular lack of class in sticking her with the bill.

Your mind will be blown when you see what happens when you find out what this article is talking about! - Perd Hapley

With your particular username I see an opportunity here.

Funny, the TV edit I saw had it changed to "I hate sunshine", which in my opinion is a far funnier phrase to make a group of homeboys super mad.

Huh. I rather like it. It makes a lot of sense for them and it's encouragingly pragmatic.

True. I'm just saying that at a certain point it's distinction-without-a-difference territory.

This is based on the assumption that they wouldn't have a huge amount to gain by simply ignoring the legitimacy of the nation regardless of its trappings.

Interesting thought, given that both of the examples you cite largely got where they got by wiping out the competition (and their family lines).

Well, the changeling was wounded, wasn't it? As has been said, their powers aren't infinite, and it's possible for them to be tired and afraid.

He would have fit right in during the last series of Blackadder, for instance.

I love looking at the Federation from the perspective of the other major races.

Ferengi may or may not have had slaves—I suspect that they did—but you can't convince me they wouldn't historically have been big fans of indentured servitude.

Well, either "led by white people" or "led in the European manner according to European traditions by people who effectively act so European as to make no difference."

Yeah, they establish Sharpe as simply being lucky early on. He's clever, tough and experienced, but he's in a lot of situations (such as battlefields flooded with cannon and musket fire) where none of those things means a damn for survivability.

The dom/sub thing between Boomer and Brother Cavill was pretty creepy, I know that much. It's like she was involved in a co-dependent relationship with a leather wallet.

I don't know how advanced they would have to be. If they were a timid race of forest-dwelling primates they'd probably be pretty good at flight and concealment.