Yeah, I actually really like BoBW II, and it's one of my favorite cliffhanger resolutions of all time. I think it's all nicely set up story-wise, and pretty much awesome how everyone plays SOME role in defeating the Borg.

Hercules, sounds like you hate the reset button more than cliffhangers. I love a good cliffhanger, as long as the tension is real and everything doesn't just revert back to normal immediately after.

Prankster: Brothers! I can't wait till we get to that one (girlish glee!).

Yeah. It would be better if they wrote it differently.

Yeah, actually, as a gen-u-ine ladyperson, I do always take the side of the bed on the side opposite the door. So do all the other coupled girls I know — not sure if it's explicitly for my reason (zombies will be slowed and escapable by stopping to feast on my husband first), or just coincidence.

YES Light Yagami. I really wanted him to get away with it, especially at the end against those two annoying little kids.

Good point — and to shore it up, isn't telepathy on the show purely biological? Like that episode where Pulaski helps the genetically-engineered children that make her age rapidly — she can hear them in her head, but Data can't. I can at least buy (from the show's internal logic, such as it is), that Troi might only…

Ok, the issue with the analogy to human emotions is that they are chemically mediated for reasons that usually ensure the survival of the race, right? So, aggression/fear can be an automatic fight-or-flight response (based on the need to quickly assess a dangerous situation and then act), love is basically chemicals…

But I have so many more.

Is there some parallel with telling an account of something that's happened recently (which is usually in present tense, right? E.g. "and then Mable says…") to preserve the sense of anticipation for what's happening next?

If you mean the "I do not feel pleasure" part of the episode, I agree. But it's not only killer for this ep, it's one of the best encapsulated moments in all Trek, for my money. The scoring, the lighting, the camera pulling in right with the kicker line…

Totally how I imagine this scene in my head
"Perhaps something occurred (puts on sunglasses) during transport, Commander." (walks offscreen)

I thought the nervousness and annoyingness was necessary to the character. Someone calm would have just undercut the whole idea that here's this guy that can't shut off his "gift," no matter what the personal cost to his mental state. Yeah, it was sort of annoying to watch, but it fit the character and the story.

Couldn't they just have, like, made the Uthat necessary for the time travel they were doing (like, it needed to exist in order for time travel to be possible for them or whatnot?). Then, when Picard blows it up, it's possible that it happened in the first (second) walkthrough of the events, so the aliens couldn't do…

Excellent stealth firstie.

It's too bad. That computers still apparently can't tell said writers: where "and how to" place punctuation Huh

Rowan, remember the involved "Growing the Beard" discussion in last week's TNG comments? American Dad is a perfect example. Like others said, it's definitely worth checking out from about season 3 on.

Well, Rick Sanchez DOES have a lot of free time on his hands, now.

Jesus, at least it wasn't a Kedollarha song. That shit nearly turned me off the (somewhat upward-trending) Simpsons last season.

I am pleased that this thread has turned into a discussion about cat pensises and calicos with Klinefelter's.