Toppington, thank you for making me almost choke on a potato chip at your comment. It was as close as I'll ever come to being president.

Right on. Without exception, all the Goosebumps books I ever read were turds.

Favorite example of effing up a timeline with time travel: Lallafa from Life, the Universe and Everything.

That's a good point…

I could never get over why that skinny weird-looking lady was all over Schisms. She was the only non-regular character in the holodeck recreation, and the conference room briefing. Did she win a contest or something?

I always had the feeling Bernsen was trying to channel Jack Nicholson with his performance.

Yeah, I feel the same way. Yesterday's Enterprise is flashier but there's some solid gold in "The Offspring." Let's not forget it has Picard's mega-facepalm, Lal's "without understanding humor, I've somehow mastered it!", and the scene with Data on the bridge you mention.

"Professor of the Humanities"
That always gets me, for some reason. Great snide characterization from Q.

So, if I parse your sentence correctly, Tony Blair married Till Death Us Do Part's daughter? Yeah, probably no one has said that before.

Yeah, Picard was just calling him by the station he was manning. Like e.g., "Tactical, raise shields."

I agree that the original Guinan-Picard meeting is never shown, but I REALLY think Time's Arrow II retcons to the reference here.

Yeah, Time's Arrow Part II, when he helps the injured Guinan like 500 years in the past. I was a little confused about that, too. Zack, were you being ironic what?

Aw shit, I'm a guidette married to a nerdy Asian man.

For the love of god, you guys, Zack didn't even mention the worst line, when Daddy McIrish says, winkingly: "Well, then…send in the CLONES!"

Guys, we have about 900 million years left — not billions. The sun's gradually getting hotter and brighter (it seems paradoxical, but it's not). Within the next few hundred million years, it'll get so hot the oceans will boil away. So no worries about the sun not being burny enough.

YES. Exactly how I feel.

Pretty good episode overall…
…but I can't wait to see Bakula next week, so this felt like a lot of treading water for me.

Great fight scenes tonight
So pleased with the excellent fight scenes tonight — there were a lot of them, they were well-staged, the camera work was fun. That, and the story was great, and actually seemed to have some real implications for the future of the characters (I know Casey won't be a civilian for long, but…

Ellie, you seem like you'll have a worthwhile opinion someday, if your vocabulary is any indication of your brainpower. I used to be an naif like you. Your problem is that you have probably only lived inside the same comfortable cocoon your whole life. So, a little living ought to get that big brain back in gear. …

So, possible A-Team reference, too? Nice.