A bunch of humans and Bajorans totally hand Gowron's Finest their asses, tied up in a pretty bow. It's just…embarassing.

"I mean, I happen to agree that Edward de Vere wasn't the author, but it's not regarded as a quack theory propounded by 'twats' except by overly zealous English department types."

@ weaseltease — MAN would that scene be better if that's what he meant. That IS creepy.

Yeah, exactly. Garak is a fucking badass killer, but come on. He wasn't gonna win that one. And they totally disregarded the whole point of the Jem'Hadar Thunderdome sequence, which was that Worf was essentially undefeatable.

Yeah, that's actually some pretty good twenty-years-after-the-fact writing. I would totally watch that. And that Russell lady was a bit Pulaski-esque, after all, only LESS charismatic.

I liked how impressively bleak it was. That Lee and Bill just both completely went to shit for that half-season, or whatever. I know a lot of people say that's where things went off the rails, but I enjoyed that stuff. For me, things went rapidly south AFTER New Caprica.

@ Bad Horse — They're supposedly very intelligent, although I've never seen any evidence of it.

We've seen the Dead Ringers scrubs before, though, right? I don't remember when. Maybe it's on DS9…

Emperor Jim — I complain about that "Way of the Warrior" battle all the time. Bashir, steely-eyed, warns his staff to prepare for lots and lots of bat'leth wounds. Severed limbs, deep poking, that sort of thing. (Luckily, Sisko must've overheard that pep talk, because it dawns on him that "hey, we could just SHOOT…

Jimbo — agreed. The Enemy did it right, and it was a powerful moment. TNG didn't hit that dark of a tone many times, so it really hit you. Picard's speech in "Ethics" is just annoyingly glib. "I'm so enlightened that it doesn't even BOTHER me that a colleague wants to die."

Yeah, but Picard's a Level VIII Operating Thetan. His name is a killing word.

Just…just don't ever ask what the transporter can or can't do. Just don't. It can't lead to anything good.

And okay, this is, like, Data 101, and this point has probably been made a thousand times. But Data's desire to experience human emotion an emotion in and of itself? If he were really emotionless, why would it bother him?

Heh. Yeah, I remember thinking that. "Wow, fancy new room! Cool!" Sort of preposterous episode, but I didn't hate it.

Highly — agreed. I liked that the injury was stupid and meaningless. That made it worse. I'm not saying it was well done, but it COULD have been.

I'd go even further than Zack in saying that Picard's behavior in "Ethics" really rubbed me the wrong way. It just seemed grossly out of character that he'd be so cavalier about Worf's sudden turn to suicide. I realize it was dramatically necessary; Riker had to butt heads with somebody. And Picard's the only one…

"Something about TNG just makes it always eminently watchable."

Can Radiohead win this on a technicality? "Creep" did go to #32, which is just barely "crashing the pop charts." Of course that was long before anyone thought of them as artistically credible.

Yeah, that album spun my whitebread head around. I freaking loved it, and it holds up pretty damned well. ("By the Time I Get to Arizona," "Shut Em Down") It gets lost in all the praise for the early records. And of course they were never the same after it.

Ah, that's right. Sorry to accuse you of such a thing. Disintegration is the best album ever, as someone once said.