and by "fleet" he means, like, 6 ships. Classic TNG there, but totally silly by DS9 standards.

It does. They ratchet up the tension to "Sacrifice of Angels" levels toward the end of season 3, and season 4 is generally a lot of fun. I wouldn't say that the characters become any more likable, though, and there's a fine layer of cheese covering some of the plot elements.

If by "touched on," you mean "beat senselessly into a wall by a pointless 2-parter," then yes.

This is actually the point in the series where DS9 switched over to all-CGI (there might…and I emphasize might…be 1-2 more original model shots in the last two seasons). At this point, Voyager had been almost entirely CGI for an entire year. DS9 was the last holdout. I remember reading an article about how they split…

Whenever I watch an episode of TNG, DS9, and Voyager, I love tracing the lineage of their "guest" ship sets from episode to episode. They bled dry that poor bridge set from The Motion Picture (used for everything from the Enterprise-D brig to a courtroom, mercenary ship, and any Starfleet ships of the week that show…

SPOILERISH, but nothing too specific.

@LaurenceQuint:disqus I just rewatched that scene from "Waltz" on Netflix. Sisko walks through the Defiant hallways, then stops in front of the door to the Voyager brig set, which has a TNG style nameplate stuck to it! They must've really been scrimping and saving for those CGI battle scenes.
Speaking of CGI, the…

I think it was one where they try to rescue the starship captain who they talk to over the comm. It was one of the last ones in the season.

I believe her original contract (and everyone else's) was for six years. When it came time for year 7, everyone re-upped except her. When she decided not to renew, they even gave her some time off to audition for other roles, which is how she got Becker (and why she's absent for an episode or two at the end of this…

You mean the zat gun? The second and third settings are pretty much forgotten after the third season of SG-1, and in the hundredth episode they self-parody the idea as being really stupid.

That would make sense, but in TNG the phasers were depicted as extremely powerful. In one episode, Riker puts a phaser on wide beam and says it'll take out half of a very large building or something. 

The wormhole is in the Bajoran system. I think moving the station was just a way of preventing the Cardassians from entrenching themselves at the wormhole.

I think the sets in question are modified Defiant sets. Sisko's office in the Starbase shows up in a later episode as the Defiant's ready room, I think.

I read somewhere (not a confirmed news source) that it was going to be an "appearance," not a live performance. Could have been a taped piece exclusive to Colbert.

@avclub-94fb25de29c41081a956ec738a8faedf:disqus Stewart has writers, too. In all honesty, I look forward to the Daily Show more, but have more respect for Colbert. He stays in character all the time and spends more time on screen in each episode. Stewart isn't as good about going "all in" with segments where he's…

It's funny, that's the point where I consider TNG to have peaked. They could've done some cast changes, found ways to work the characters' logical real-life progressions into the series, but they didn't. There were still plenty of great episodes, but never the same level of risk as in BoBW. I feel like that was a big…

Season 4: Love it or hate it, two things are pretty clear. 1) The new format, and the negative reception that resulted, was dictated largely by actor availability (or lack thereof). 2) Despite its limitations, the writing was just as sharp, perhaps moreso than the original, proving that the bones are still there.…

Apart from Sound Effects and occasionally Moving People, the audience participation games weren't that great. I also didn't care for some of the new games they tried to add in the later years. The comedians always seemed so awkward and the clips never turned out that funny.

Whose Line is one of those shows that makes more sense to produce today than in the 90s/early 00s because the episodes can be parceled out into individual game segments and posted online with ads. The economics of the show are better now than they were when it was ABC's slot filler against "Friends."

I know. Definitely a combination of age and HD broadcasts. :(