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There's one episode with Hayden Panettierre and she is just so drunk, it's almost (but not quite) too much. She gets up to dance with Robin Thicke during the musical number.

He looked Botoxed to hell, though.

Well, she can clearly attract men. The show does a pretty good job of showing that her romantic issues are something deeper.

True. Like most Americans, I didn't read the entire comment.

Sun Kang.

A Vietnamese kid in my middle school whose name I forget now. He was kind of an asshole smartass, which I guess works for me, I don't know.

Han in the later Fast and Furious movies! But I mean, there's no way they could get away with keeping Han loveless.

Exactly. Towards the end of my DS9 watching, they'd almost won me over…and then something reminding me of how inherently terrible they are would happen.

Godfrey Gao is not standing for this.

As an amateur history buff, I'd love to see a Star Trek (or other sci-fi/fantasy, to be honest) take on a real mercantile civilization, something like Venice. Unfortunately, we got the fucking Ferengi. The wasted potential is probably the main reason I hate them so much.

There's a lot of kinds of (historical) cultures that Star Trek hasn't bothered with which would contrast nicely with Starfleet. They could have antagonists that weren't another patriarchal warrior race, for example.

Ugh, the Ferengi in TNG. DS9 tried to redeem them as an interesting mercantile culture with just a different morality to Starfleet, but their origins hamstrung them too much.

And the well-maintained forested paths that made up every planet the DS9 cast ended up on.

Yeah, I'm already curious enough about it to think I'll probably get something out of it. I'm starting with Voyager, though, as I didn't watch that much at the time.

Us outside of the US get it there already!

Yes, but I do get to personally refer to it as Star Trek Disco, so it's not all bad.

And thanks to that, Netflix NL has all the Star Trek now! Which means, alas, I'll probably guilt myself into watching Enterprise.

I'm disappointed that they won't go to any more planets that look like a well-maintained Southern California state park.

Wait, are they not on random cable channels all the time now? America has changed since I left…

The children had to learn about it sooner or later.