avclub-dbdec92c1a47832b13fc9f11e75ca600--disqus
Rimjob
avclub-dbdec92c1a47832b13fc9f11e75ca600--disqus

My favorite episode of '80s Twilight Zone is "A Small Talent For War."

I love the fear in Jeffrey Combs voice when he reports Damar destroyed the cloning facility.

The attack on Starfleet and the Golden Gate Bridge always struck me as strange. I think a present-day military could probably do more damage to a city, let alone the entire planet, than what the Breen do to San Francisco. I don't know if the writers or Paramount didn't want to go darker, but it seems like that if the

No. All of the post-Nixon presidents are different, since they're all shown or referred to in one of the later seasons attending a president's funeral.

If I remember right, there's an explanation/speculation that "The West Wing" takes place in an alternate timeline that diverges from our's at President Nixon's resignation.

When Back to the Future Part II was released, there was a behind the scene special that aired on NBC. In it, Zemeckis claimed the Hoverboard was a real piece of technology, but parents groups were having 'em pulled from store shelves because of safety concerns.

I would guess that they automatically return to earth. Although, if life is designed around the universe wanting to test people's ability to move past fear, that creates the question of why would people be sent to earth crazy in the first place?

Since they both share Ronald D. Moore, BSG has a lot of Deep Space Nine's DNA. The Cylons are basically all the aspects of the Dominion combined; the fear that anyone could be a Cylon is analogous to the threat of the Founders, the ability to resurrect is like the Vorta's ability to be cloned with the memories of a

Any theories on what we're supposed to believe Tom Baker's character to be?

Although, Donna is probably my favorite companion of the lot, and she is not a romantic interest for the Doctor, her character has the best arc & growth of any of the companions, and for me her departure is one of the most tragic moments in the show's run.

When I was in college, I remember a paper in the Sociology department's academic database on depictions of diversity and media. The paper argued that the future depicted in "Star Trek" is not necessarily a future with a true depiction of diversity, but a future where everyone, including the aliens, are assimilated

The original anime with subtitles was on YouTube, and it's really good. "Star Blazers" cuts out a lot of the deaths and the consequences of the characters actions that are present in "Space Battleship Yamato."

It'll be interesting to see what they keep and what they change, not only from the original anime, but also from "Star Blazers."

Just voting her out wouldn't be the end of her connections with Lockhart-Gardner, would it?

Given the legal mess with Fox's license of the X-Men I guess it was pretty much a sure thing, but this episode seems to imply there are no "mutants" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or at least no one knows that mutants exist yet.

According to TNG's "The Chase," all of the humanoid species in Trek share common genetic material from an ancient humanoid species.

It's interesting, as much as people have problems figuring out how the Federation's "no money" system would work, I've always wondered how a government or even something akin to the Federal Reserve System would function in a nth degree capitalism Ferengi society, since they don't seem to like taxes and believe

I know there was no real way to expound on it within the series, but the fascinating thing about "Statistical Probabilities" to me would have been if the predictions of the crazies were actually valid. What if there was no way for the Federation to win? The conversations between Bashir & Sisko and Bashir & O'Brien

Wikileaks actually threatened to sue The Guardian over the leaked material when the Guardian got ahold of the cables from someone within Wikileaks and wanted to publish on their own timetable, and not the one Assange was dictating. Assange claimed  that he "owned" the cables and had a financial interest in them.

How "happy" an ending was it though?