Exactly.

You people are talking about "Critical Mass" but I don't the phrase means what you think it does.

The studios write those ratings tags.

obscure reference
I got a laugh out of the reference to a "Silkwood shower" from Jack. This series has a higher joke density than anything else I've seen in a good long time.

I think that was part of the idea for Deep Space 9, though it went in other directions pretty quickly

I always thought the obvious representations in the original series were

This movie did give us…
Something. It gave us the concept for an annoying series of Insurance (?) commercials.

Where is Frampton?
This movie sucked when it was called "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" but I sat through that pile of steaming crap anyway.

I saw this
I took a 12 and 14 year old to see this and they liked it. It was pretty much torture for me.

Threaded Discussion…
…is an excellent idea that would make comment threads like this much less painful to read.

Totz
"Neuromancer" would be the best novel to start with, but if you have never read any of WG's stuff you might want to start out with the short story collection, "Burning Chrome". That will give you a good feel for his style and ideas.