Huh, why shouldn't Skynet send back his killing machines in the shape of a old, deflated former muscle man?  No one would see the danger until it was too late.  Hell, why not send back a Terminator in the shape of Jerry Seinfeld, or a small child.

I think once people pointed out to them that doggy style is the best Cylon detector their is, they backpeddaled it.

You're not, not, not, not, not, not going home tonight, get back in line, because its time to say goodbye to everyone, because you are going on to the next round, in your dreams, dreams that are fulfilled.  Actually, I don't have a fucking clue if you're in or out.

I think its also because all of their deaths happened to *no* bad guy cost, and almost not chance for them to fight back.  If Robb had died in battle with The Mountain, or Caitlyn had Iocane powdered herself to get Cersei, it wouldn't have had the impact of their utter and complete defeat in the Red Wedding.  We…

Its especially disappointing when you could have had some honest evaluations of how good, useful and necessary the Prime Directive really is, particularly in a situation where following could put your life directly in danger.  In some situations, the Prime Directive is just an excuse for cowardice and laziness.  Just…

Yeah, I felt like the desire to return to a more TNG/TOS episodic situation was the wrong move, particularly after DS9.  Voyager might have worked if they'd given it a bit more grit, but it still seemed like a Federation ship visiting a different sci-fi plot each week, but just having the local aliens low powered…

While they were all clunky, the fact that no one thought to simply start up the Send Us Back machine and leave a few timed bombs on board set to go off a few seconds later kind of bugged me.  It didn't need to be some dramatic sacrifice at all.

I thought it worked mainly because Lorien was there.  And really, its kind of like the end of the Mass Effect games… in both the younger species are presented with a threat they could never resolve with conventional forces.  They had to hurt the Shadows and the Vorlons in their philosophy.

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Ah Lexx…. where everything looks like a reproductive organ.

You have to give a lot of credit to a batch of warriors that when faced with an unstoppable threat, think calmly "So… how do we kill these guys then?"

I'll be interested to see those opinions down the road in the recap.  I'd imagine that for an adult viewer, that kind of talk it out ending would seem a little pat.  There's something to be said for seeing something with out much of a sci-fi background… B5 blew my little 13 year old mind.

It still baffles my mind that they could put all that effort in to the TNG movies and the last two would still only have space battles involving 3-4 ships.  I know that's the standard ST movie template, but it'd be nice to have something like a DS9 or B5 battle once in a while.

Its an easy answer, but for me, TNG was never better than Best of Both Worlds Part One.  Seeing it again as an adult, it was even better than I remembered it.  The whole crew was looking Human Extinction right in the face.

The teenage me still loves Into The Fire best (If I recall the name of the episode that had final battle of the Shadow War).

I think B5 shows the value of living, disturbingly organic ships better than most other Sci-fi.  They seem to  feel pain, they produce swarms of little baby ships, they can stick to one another.  That sort of adaptability on the fly fits very nicely with the Shadow's philosophy too.

Hell, if a man wins that would be a US Masterchef first.

Yeah, I never trusted anything Bester said.  He's The Man that Always Lies from that logic puzzle.

I don't really think the Borg are as invincible as they like to think they are, as nothing that is defeated multiple times by Janeway is truly invincible.. Particularly, when the mass of a Dyson sphere would outweigh even a million Borg cubes… seriously, TNG does not do the scale of that structure justice.  Plus, the…

Ah, right.  But a lot can happen in the hundred years between TOS and TNG.  The Romans weren't far off from 20th century technology, which is a hop skip and a jump from warp drive, if Star Trek is to be believed.

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