Hot take: Deep Space Nine is a deserved classic not because it was the black sheep of the Star Trek clan, but because it remembered best what made TOS the classic it was (and is) in the prior generation. The problem wasn’t DS9. The problem was that everyone else, including Gene himself, had changed their minds about…
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So this asshole was in the theater with his phone out taking pictures? He’s worse than the spoiler.
To be fair, that’s an Australian cow. It’s size is greatly exaggerated by the Mercator projection.
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io9 has traveled 10 years into the future. That future is now.
Of course the black dude is the one with soul.
Anyone else notice how The Orville is getting no coverage on io9 at all anymore? We got reviews of all the early episodes, but now they only seem to care about Discovery. It’s a pity, there have been some good ones.
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