@avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus  (spoiler)
A critical dividing line between TNG and DS9 is that whenever TNG goes to Earth, the plot always plays out at Starfleet Command or the Academy — really the ep could be changed to take place on a "Starbase 25" with only a few added ADR lines and two changed…

@avclub-566b971589b228d3b6e5af8123b3c1d4:disqus And Gul Dukat became a beret-wearing Martian security officer.

@avclub-566b971589b228d3b6e5af8123b3c1d4:disqus And Gul Dukat became a beret-wearing Martian security officer.

@avclub-adb4c903674d579c1a43dbf3ae93f077:disqus I don't think the show gives you enough information to conclude Klingons are "feudal," for example we never see Klingon serfdom, there's no clear social distinction between villeins and the nobility, and we never see anything resembling subinfeudiation.  Aside from…

@avclub-adb4c903674d579c1a43dbf3ae93f077:disqus I don't think the show gives you enough information to conclude Klingons are "feudal," for example we never see Klingon serfdom, there's no clear social distinction between villeins and the nobility, and we never see anything resembling subinfeudiation.  Aside from…

I sorta hesitate to bring it up, but does anyone else note the shock value in hiring the world's preeminent Israeli Jewish actress to play a girl who's boy-crazy for Nazis?

I sorta hesitate to bring it up, but does anyone else note the shock value in hiring the world's preeminent Israeli Jewish actress to play a girl who's boy-crazy for Nazis?

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus LEAVE EZRI ALOOOOONE!!!

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus LEAVE EZRI ALOOOOONE!!!

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I can't watch Rene Auberjonois do anything without thinking of him as Father Kudos in The Big Bus.

I can't watch Rene Auberjonois do anything without thinking of him as Father Kudos in The Big Bus.

I seem to remember him turning in a charming performance as an avuncular, dorky scientist who gets his neck snapped in Independence Day.

I seem to remember him turning in a charming performance as an avuncular, dorky scientist who gets his neck snapped in Independence Day.

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Ahem.  Little Green Men.

Ahem.  Little Green Men.

@avclub-77b4256b06873e148ee566d00acda135:disqus  (SPOILER)  Later on in the series a certain General Martok becomes an important part of the series.  It transpires at one point that, due to family dishonor, his first job on board a Klingon ship was as a civilian technician.