Well Spock and McCoy on several occasions - mainly thinking of "The Tholian Web", "Bread and Circuses", "The Enemy Within"…

I love your final piece of dialogue when your skin is being stretch to bejeesus and back - "Jesus wept."

I say go to hell, Barbados Slim!

At your service, Sir.

Actually I thought the whole "killing your own clone" angle was fairly clever…

We'll discuss in the next episode thread…

It's like the eventuality of the Bush Doctrine - the "one-world" nation, the "thousand points of light" - Team Starfleet, Galactic Police and I'll reference "Insurrection" here when the baddie tells the Admiral the Federation is a dinosaur…it is weak and frail…

Never got off on Kira - she's a little too Ethel Merman for my tastes…

I am but love…(to quote Shakespeare)…butt love.

Carnivale was such an incredible show - a visual treat, mysterious, haunting.

"Let's put it on a space station" - such a douche comment from Moore, and also indicative of the writer/producer's mentality and the work-shopping methods they use in collaboration these days.

I thought I already explained, Badass.  Mainly I see it as a manifestation of American Imperialism - what with humanity being better than anything…but that's neither here nor there.  If viewed in this context, Star Trek adds biting satire to its collective strengths.  Discuss.

Nicholas Meyer confirms "wagon train to the stars" is what Roddenberry always wanted for his show.  He didn't want conflict.  He didn't want war.  He didn't want the Naval rhetoric.  He wanted peace and love and happiness and shiny happy people in the 23rd century on a good-will good-lovin' cruise through the stars,…

Well, what is the inter-web for if not making sweeping statements without backing them up?  I'm just giving the geeks what they want.  I love you, though - don't ever change.

What?  What's your problem, Rich - in these threads, it's hard to figure what you're responding to.  E-lu-ci-date…

Duet came first.

True, The Cage doesn't really come up in discussion, but I am surprised Handlen didn't reference it.  I don't think he even did a write-up - just "The Menagerie" - without that awkward envelope story for the two-parter, it was Roddenberry's best piece of writing.

Ron Moore is everywhere like herpes and…cockroaches.

There's nothing wrong with the action coming to them.  It's just not Star Trek.  It's a million different things, but it's not quite Star Trek.  Voyager and Enterprise were more in keeping with the tradition. They weren't quite Star Trek either.

Bah, semantics alurin - adjust your argument.  Star Trek was "wagon train to the stars" because it was about the journey.  If you look at the original pitch, it didn't really stray from the classic 79 episodes - nor did TNG.  DS9 was the first Trek product (not counting the movies) not to be put together by…