Pete's overreacting petulance will always get a big laugh out of me.

Speak for yourself, my comments are only ever delightful.

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus   So admiral was going to show up to attack the Enterprise either way?  Yeah, that makes more sense than my recollection.

I think it's definitely worth seeing to form your own opinion, and I don't think even the most stringent detractors would disagree.

The admiral was only trying to kill Khan at first.  He doesn't know about the guys in the torpedoes, and expects Kirk to fire said undetectable torpedoes at Khan and come home, end of story.  He's willing to RISK a war to hide his crimes, but isn't trying to start one.  Then Kirk doesn't kill Khan and finds out what…

The guise of a vendetta against Roxxon is what they are using to cover up the fact that their plan is a VP coup.  I get the sense that they paid the guy to fake his own death, without Roxxon knowing.

@avclub-323ca7b091beb1b26cc7a2612f1475d5:disqus   And also, in my estimation, fairly inaccurate.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus   Well, once we realized it was sentient, we took it out of the centrifuge.  That counts for something, right?

It's ok.  You didn't even know he was a life form!

Also, it's interesting to think of Odo vs. Bullock.  The characters don't seem all that similar, but I feel like Odo would have behaved identically to Seth in Deadwood's first scene.  Which is probably the most defining scene for Bullock in the whole series.

A lot of DS9 episodes would have turned out very differently if Quark had employed a Dan equivalent.

I would think the beginning of Star Trek (2009) would be more appropriate.

I think it's more complicated than even that, though.  I may be remembering incorrectly, but he was clearly not going to ever regain consciousness at that point, right?  So holding on to his visions was a moot point by then, which was solely and explicitly why he wanted to not have the surgery.  So it's certainly…

He also does the theatrical over-enunciation which, while I realize is generally what you're supposed to, can be occasionally off-putting.

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I am sorry you regret it, as it is a compelling and informative read.

It is, despite not featuring Lee Pace somehow.

Well, he does mention the Admiral's son and their conflict, which is at least extant, even if we don't know if the son actually forgives his father.

"This television program is intelligent, but the dragons are unrealistic.  Therefore, I give it 1.5 stars."

I disagree, such a hypothetical story IS a good moral lesson, as the punishment is the best narrative mechanism that the writer has to convey their moral stance to the viewer.  The problem is that it's not a good *practical* lesson, as you correctly point out.