I thought it was a fine cold open, but strange … in that they run the titles in the teaser.  Why?  Did they think this was a special episode?

Yeah, I'll take an Okana, Piscopo, Goldberg sandwich any day.  Most of season six (for me) sucked it raw.  Excruciating.  I noticed Handlen didn't mention fucking "Rascals".

Starfleet and Admiral Bitch apparently like to pretend Picard (and Company) doesn't save their asses on a weekly basis; sort of the same conceit of X-Files.  The superiors have short-term memory problems and don't realize they should be on their knees praising Picard or Mulder and Scully or any similar characters.

It must-a been while you were kissin' me…

At ease Lieutenant.  At ease.

Mother-Puss-Bucket!  Did I just reply to myself?  I've just Shatnered myself.

Change it back please.  My eyes hurt.

The one that isn't half bad…

Wow.  I am really not liking this new comments section.  Everything runs together and there no subject lines to divide everything.  Confusing as fuck.

The one where somebody gets laid and LeVar Burton takes pictures…

It occurs to me I may have made a horrible mistake citing Christ as an example of a mythic figure as opposed to a real-world persona; as there still seem to be a decent percentage who believe such a person truly existed. Perhaps I should've referenced Mother Goose or the Easter Bunny. My initial point remains about…

Every culture (I suppose) must have a Christ-like figure or a Christ-like allegory, but the difference being (at least in comparison to the admittedly fictional-metaphorical worlds of Star Trek) Kahless is regarded as an actual real figure in the importance of the history of the Klingon Empire, whereas people today…

. your mother

Commenting here is one of my few joys.

To each his own I guess. I get the feeling these later season writers didn't know what they were doing and just pulled this stuff out of their collective ass and yet Handlen does the write-ups like they're "Catcher in the Rye" or "Ulysses". I include the "giants" like Moore in that group of writers. I never much…

A million words or less please…
I enjoy Handlen's reviews but I could do without the tone of lecture he takes when he grabs a subject that irks him and hangs on for dear life. This week the subject is "faith". Two/three paragraphs on the subject of faith and comparisons of Kahless (who, I don't care what he or the…

The reason I don't like these Klingons is because, sooner or later, every alien race in the Star Trek morphs or transforms into a very thinly-veiled variation of humanity (or our humanity); unimaginative pseudo-intellectual line-produced writing that depicts aliens that are not truly alien, but somehow meant to be a…

Seems like it would be more of a Data or Geordi thing than Crusher. Once again, they shoe-horn her character into a story so she can get a little screen time.

Jurassic Worf…
Kahless (The Unforgettable) was represented in the original Star Trek episode, "The Savage Curtain", as setting the pattern for his planet's tyranny. Vicious, conniving, not particularly thoughtful (and also an unbelievably skilled mimic). What Handlen refers to as "world-building" (what I call…

Sorry Mrs. Peel, I don't live that far up. I kind of wish I did.