As we run out of episodes I suspect we'll see lot more of these gimmick posts from the cast, but this was well done. +1 to you, sir or madam.

As I recall, this episode was roundly and thoroughly despised in the circles of fandom I inhabited, specifically because THEY WERE FUCKING WITH THE WARP DRIVE!!! They could have done almost any other sort of "environmental" episode (and really, hadn't we already covered this ground somewhat in ST-TVH?) and people…

Tuck wins the internet.

Styles change. Plus, there were plenty of attractive people in TV. They just weren't on Soap.

Is Suburgatory another one of those "dark underbelly of the burbs" things? Haven't we been seeing those since Levittown was finished? I mean it's practically a cliche`. No, not practically, it IS a cliche`.

"A face like a sensuous pixie" was invented for her. Simply amazingly gorgeous.

Ah yes. I recall Ebert's comments on that one. So [SPOILERS] They get offed one by one as the laser changes its movement pattern, and then the last guy gets shredded by a zillion lasers at once. As Ebert said, why not do that first? Did the room have a sense of humor or something?

My memory of the time was that the Go-Go's were seen as the flighty gimmicky girl band and the Bangles were the serious musicians who just happened to be chicks. Which is not really fair to the Go-Go's, IMO. I preferred the Bangles, but the Go-Go's had a lot more going on than you might think from their radio hits.

Yeah. Being willing to admit you done fucked up needs to be worth something. Better to have not fucked up in the first place, but still, first rule of holes and all that.

The Kama Sirtis would be an awesome band name.

Well, she puts up with me, which must rank pretty high in the awesomeness scale. Oh, you mean probably saving the kid's lives, don't you? I suppose that is worth something too.

A rare name that is vastly easier to pronounce than spell.

The classic "drowning person splashes and makes noise" thing is very very often not the case. The prospective drowner often slips under very quietly and with no obvious struggle. My wife has actually witnessed this twice, having had to leap in and yank little kids out of the water almost right next to their parents.

Or even blue, eh big guy?

An interesting observation. Certainly superhero action the way we think of it would require a considerable budget.

I dunno, we've gotten some good TV with reset buttons. See also, Star Trek: TNG. But how much is a reset seen as a requirement anymore? There has been a lot of serial drama out there now for years. It's not exactly terra incongnita.

HBO used to show Broadway plays and stuff (maybe the still do, haven't had HBO in 20 years). It rocked (Camelot! With Richard Harris!). How the hell else is a kid in a small Texas town supposed to see good stage drama?

It would have been nice if Privateer 2 had actually been Privateer 2, as opposed to some other game with that label slapped on it.

I was hoping for a Wing Commander question, if only to hear what it was like to work with Biff. And people forget how different Wing 3 was from the stuff that was out there at the time.

You'd be amazed how often one can work "nuclear peptide cake" into everyday conversation. Especially around nerds of a certain age.