I'm just a Ganymedean slime mold. We don't care about honor. Ima upvote that bitch.

Putney says the Boorman 6 girl is got to have soul!

Robot House!

And we get a shocking return to Angry/Lonely God as The Doctor goes all Dante's Inferno on the Family of Blood.

"Dropped the copter" has replaced "jumped the shark" in my personal lexicon.

"Nooooooooo!"

…calling the Pol Kettle a genocidal maniac.

But Dax loved Worf as much as Jadzia did. Ezri was understandably overwhelmed, (possible misogyny alert) especially since Worf's coldness toward her probably tweaked her "challenge" circuit.

Yep. Braga should have been a staff writer, never a producer.

When they hit on the idea that the 13th Colony was a completely different race of Cylons, they just missed brilliance. How much of a gorgeous mind-fuck if, at the end, the one true God was revealed to be old BSG's Lucifer?

Voyager—as much as i loathe it—did a great PKD with the Doctor. Forget the season and title.

Which is why I love "Trials and Tribble-ations" even though I'm not a fan of "The Trouble with Tribbles." Along with "Far Beyond the Stars" (which implies—believe it or not—that Benny Russell created all of Star Trek and that Richard Daystrom [!] was an early prototype for Ben Sisko when Benny Russell "echoes" his "I…

She was also a colleague and intimate confidant of The Emissary, pretty much Peter to his Christ. It does smack of small universe syndrome but it can be justified.

Klingons went from a totaltarian society that excelled at skullduggery and realpolitik and was dimensional enough to contain three men as diverse as Kor (oily pragmatist who saw war as glorious), Koloth (oily but slightly foppish smiler) and Kang (humorless, ruthless but honorable warrior, the only one in the TNG…

Simply having several diiferent, distinct factions or generations of Cylons—some genocidal, some oppressive, some truly benevolent—would have done it without requiring aliens. But they folded all that into the inconsistent seven models and it was only partially successful.

Oddly enough, since the two most important Romulan episodes of DS9 rely on the Federation using espionage and dirty tricks to dupe the Romulans, it is very much in keeping with "The Enterprsie Incident" from TOS.

BSG was also limited by the fact that are no aliens to speak of (the original had plenty; in the original, the Cylons were aliens pissed at humans for intervening when they tried to subjugate another alien race).

Sloan always reminded me, in a good way, of Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H*.

"Sloan probably sees himself as a guy who has to get his hands dirty so that everyone else's can stay clean." Slaon says precisely this to Bashir in the episode in question, much as the Operative says to Mal Reynolds in Serenity.

I think (as does the guy who wrote the TNG episode "Tin Man," Dennis Bailey) that the Cardassians are more like TOS Klingons than they are Romulans—more like TOS Klingons than TNG-era Klingons. Arne Darvin and Garak are more alike than Darvin is like any Klingon seen in 24th Century Star Trek—arguably, he's more like…