"HARCOURT FENTON MUDD! Have you been drinking again?  You worthless good-for-nothing -thing -thing -thing."

The military not being accountable to the civilian government is different from the military running the civilian government.  The Cardassian military might simply have been autonomous for the past 700 years, only taking control of the civilian government in the last generation, in the way that Iran's Pasdaran are…

The military not being accountable to the civilian government is different from the military running the civilian government.  The Cardassian military might simply have been autonomous for the past 700 years, only taking control of the civilian government in the last generation, in the way that Iran's Pasdaran are…

Well she is visibly carrying his child next season, one whole year before they were married.

Well she is visibly carrying his child next season, one whole year before they were married.

Who we might add, still has a very successful career.  She probably made a good choice passing on DS9.

Who we might add, still has a very successful career.  She probably made a good choice passing on DS9.

@avclub-2b4398f8c60d5dd9b8e3c786a3745192:disqus Suddenly reminded of the "baby food" machine from RoboCop.

@avclub-2b4398f8c60d5dd9b8e3c786a3745192:disqus Suddenly reminded of the "baby food" machine from RoboCop.

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus Strictly speaking they could replicate torpedoes, there was nothing particularly exotic about them, it's established in canon that a starship can manufacture it's own antimatter if it's in a situation where it's energy-rich but antimatter poor.

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus Strictly speaking they could replicate torpedoes, there was nothing particularly exotic about them, it's established in canon that a starship can manufacture it's own antimatter if it's in a situation where it's energy-rich but antimatter poor.

"Oh, and Kira and Bashir’s aggressive make-out is amusing because they’re both into it, even while realizing they probably shouldn’t be."

"Oh, and Kira and Bashir’s aggressive make-out is amusing because they’re both into it, even while realizing they probably shouldn’t be."

Any discussion of this topic is incomplete without citing the case of 1982's Annie, produced by Columbia and Ray Stark for over $50 million, a year before a little movie called Return of the Jedi was made for $32 mil, and two years after Empire was made for $18 million.

Any discussion of this topic is incomplete without citing the case of 1982's Annie, produced by Columbia and Ray Stark for over $50 million, a year before a little movie called Return of the Jedi was made for $32 mil, and two years after Empire was made for $18 million.

That sounds nuts.  IMDb says it was $12 million.

That sounds nuts.  IMDb says it was $12 million.

@avclub-53e4db6f596904f154b5efa09193e3ab:disqus  and @avclub-40904cf5a179d97beb9f7f3f8c02e080:disqus  I meant Lancaster California.

@avclub-53e4db6f596904f154b5efa09193e3ab:disqus  and @avclub-40904cf5a179d97beb9f7f3f8c02e080:disqus  I meant Lancaster California.

@avclub-53e4db6f596904f154b5efa09193e3ab:disqus It sounds like you feel about ST-IV the same way I feel about the J. J. Abrams.  I'm totally isolated among my friends but I think the Abrams is a shlockfest that sold out Trek in order to make it palatable to unengaged non-fans who wanted a dumb adventure movie.