The fish flopping was funny until it went on too long, I know that's supposed to make it funnier, but it din't. Did love Ned's mustache shower cap though.

We'll always have Youtube…

Oh horrors, uber-geek must correct his previous post. I meant *Nemesis* is definitely the worst, not Insurrection, which was lame but not barf-worthy. That is all.

Insurrection is definitely the worst, with Generations and V battling it out for second. II, III and First Contact are the hallmarks for me (plus the new one, which will be awesome!, Rod willing).

Best not to talk about the Enterprise theme song, though it got a little less criminal when they removed the vocals. Still…

"Religion goes out of favor in 2037 when science discovers the gene that regulates fear."

I vote for continuing on to season 2 TOS, Zack.

The pathetic thing was that the aluminum only needed to be transparent for *our* benefit (oooh, cool shot!). To spend that much screen time and risk to the characters - to say nothing of timeline fucking - for no good reason was ridiculous. And IV relied way to heavily on jokes, sort of an Ewok syndrome.

Always good for a reminder anyway for trivia gluttons who might've missed it.

Oooh, Foreman! Lousy or not, color me impressed!

Yeah, I'll give you all that. Plus the fact that originally they were only interested in assimilating technology not bodies. I guess it was the awesomeness of the actor(s) who played the Queen that overrode any dopiness of the plot for me. And the whole Unimatrix Zero stuff was a big disappointment.

See, I thought the Xindi season was the strongest of them all, although it was very complicated and had to be followed closely and in order.

Hmmm, my take would be to watch each ep in the order they were aired because that would most closely replicate the experience of watching them originally on TV.

Thanks, herk. I just remember wishing there were subtitles for that ending.

OK, thanks GL, I remember the helicopter ep. Maybe what I'm thinking is that there never was an ep where he falls *off* the wagon?

Plus 7of9 was taken as a child before her body had finished developing, so she depended on some Borg tech to live. And Picard took a while to come back to normal after being rescued.

Well, I can't counter all that, lord knows - my brain hurts just reading your post :-). What I'm saying about the babies is that they assimilated them AND the adults. Plus there's something about their growth rate being accelerated.

Good point, Thants. Adaptation proves he's still got the chops but spends most of his time going for the payday instead of using them.

Ebert has always been too forgiving of movies in general. But his writing skills and journalism are second to none. There's a reason he's the most recognizable film critic ever. It's such a shame he won't be able to record any more commentary tracks anymore.

I love all the eps where Kirk out-logics the computers.