Like we're really going to entertain commentaries on morality from a bad horse. Come on now.

No love for Data's Day or Hero Worship? I haven't seen either since air, I don't think, but I remember them both being pretty good…

Preposition
"it's an excellent reminder of Data's potential to make the right choices the rest of us might not be capable of [making]." BAM! Problem solved.

Also
If he finds the show so offensive to his experience, why is he watching it into its 4th season?

EXPLAIN YOURSELF, AV CLUB!

Yes.

Clarification: Zack is only referring to those of us with beards.

The Show clipped an office? What?

Cloneasaurus already took care of it. Settle down.

If you have any connections *there*, they are almost certainly evil and will deny this request.

Wrong Troi.

+1 to Clerks. Why are we walking like this?

It received like 10 points for that (1 point each time), which brought its grand total to -23498938 points, which is still (barely) an F.

Aha, it was a ploy to get everyone to actually read the review of an episode no one likes! Very clever.

Grade
I did like a quadruple-take when I saw the B grade at the top of this review. Glad to see it was for the season at not this episode.

The game board from season 1.

Take heart! Apparently they will be hardcore again in another three hundred years.

I always assumed that clip was from Cause and Effect, as I heard the track probably at least five years after seeing either episode.

It's only ridiculous when compared to modern military structures and sensibility, which I think is not necessarily what they were trying to emulate.

I always thought they should do a gag that you needed to wear special glasses to play the 3D chess game. Alas.