I didn’t make that connection until you mentioned it, which shows how much of a mark the Tigans left on my memory.

I liked Meaney in this as the shy guy caught up in his own thoughts. It’s pretty much what you’d expect a 1950s hard SF writer obsessed with robots to be like (though of course Asimov was rather different).

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Unless we count extras and two-line ensigns, I think DS9’s human main crew leans brown, or at least more brownish than the other shows. I don’t think that was necessarily intentional—Bashir was originally supposed to be Italian or something, and the casting for TNG was to some degree colorblind (Yaphet Kotto was on…

Some of my favorite touches are the hints of Benny’s 1950s afrocentrism.

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In the Companion, Auberjonois really praises how the writers set up his character—he’s not really driven by bigotry or a disdain for Russell, but he’s accepting of the status quo and that’s what makes him a villain.

Even without Dowd, this film would have been doomed to C+ (or worse) by the simultaneous interview with Forte.

We take several hundred years to negotiate our independence, but we accept the Alien Queen as our sovereign.

Eill Smotb, the distinguished Gaelic-language thespian?

They invaded before…

In light of Smith’s decision to decline to return, Emmerich decided to go the highbrow route and cast a fine British actor.

And Hrunting is his penis!

With our heads, like the Norsemen of old!

Judging by the look on his face Beowolf’s already been to Taco Bell and is starting to regret it.

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It’s almost at the level of that first season Star Trek: Voyager episode with the Beowolf holodeck program!

And after the spanking, the aural sex!

Why not skip all these watered-down iterations and just strip them down to their skivvies and release the lions?

White? Okay, it’s a segregated city, I can understand that.