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    Realtime?
    This is what I hope 24 will devolve into each season.

    The inevitable licensed video-game
    I've always thought that Cosmopolis would make a great video game.

    Turns out Sulu's dad orchestrated the attack on Pearl Harbour.

    "Naked Now" was TNG, "Naked Time" was TOS.

    "The Naked Time" was their first episode after the pilot, so they should be cut a little slack. A drunken party is a pretty good way to introduce the characters.

    In the book "Worlds of the Federation" (proudly displayed in my bookcase, 20 years after the original purchase), it's said that the Iotians took the transtator and created an imitation Starfleet planet.

    Also the Greek planet and the Roman planet. And the studio back lot planet.

    Memo for J.J. Abrams
    Keeping with the tone of the original series, I'd love to see the gangster planet pop up in the next Star Trek film. Or the Nazi planet. Or the cowboy planet. Or the other cowboy planet.

    Memo for J.J. Abrams
    Keeping with the tone of the original series, I'd love to see the gangster planet pop up in the next Star Trek film. Or the Nazi planet. Or the cowboy planet. Or the other cowboy planet.

    I considered most of your options, Aioli, but didn't include them in my original list.

    Here's a thought experiment to illustrate my point: What do you imagine would happen in episode two of Virtuality? Episode 20? Season 2? Season 5?

    I loved the Life on Mars finale.

    The faux-reality segments felt like they were written by someone who read about reality TV in the newspaper, thought it was an interesting idea, then spent a week doing research.

    Non-sustainable TV
    I wasn't terribly impressed by the show (C+, maybe), but I'm surprised that it made it even to the back-door pilot level. Is it sustainable as a weekly show?

    I made a joke about Dee Dee Myers, but no one shared my encyclopedic knowledge of White House press secretaries.

    rsh: You toss beanbags through the cutout holes. It's a game of surprising depth.

    They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays but not be destroyed by them: Earth. So all over the world couples stood together in…

    "Echo Beach" by Martha and the Muffins. My favourite song as a child, I remember perking up whenever it came on the radio on long car trips.

    I've never actually seen the movie…
    … but I know the song pretty well. For the longest time, I thought this film was a musical. Also, I always pictured Liberty Valance and Liberace as the same person.