On the contrary, episodes where crew-members are off the ship with no combadge do exist, there are quite a lot of them, and usually it’s much more important to the plot than one momentary acting decision from one episode (no matter who ultimately made it).

But then you’d have the same problem every time a Starfleet officer was captured by the locals on a planet and had their stuff taken away. The first one that came to my mind was “The Chute”, but there are many, many other examples. They have to be implants.

The Star Trek translators aren’t in the com-badges; otherwise every time a Starfleet officer went rogue and left their combadge on the table, they’d suddenly be unable to talk to anybody. For example, O’Brien in the Tosk episode.

Or Rutherford B. Hayes.

Or maybe Barbara Broccoli can step down and be replaced by Carla Cauliflower, Doris Daikon, or Elizabeth Edamame.

That was my reaction. I think we’re all being Colbert Report-ed here.

I wish Comedy Central would offer her a show. I still miss the days of Stewart and Colbert...

I don’t know, but afterwards he’ll wash his hands using a Pfabulous Pfaucet with a Pfunny name.

Agreed. If this is a B+, what the heck does the show have to do to get an A?!

Boo. I miss Disqus and its downvote button.

Also, is it just me, or does Charles II look a bit like Inigo Montoya?

“Hello. My name is Charles II. You killed my father. Prepare to... oh. Hrm. WELL PREPARE TO DIE AGAIN!”

Yeah, to me, “things that make it understandable to want to dig up someone’s corpse” is a pretty short list, but “cutting your father’s head off” is probably gonna be on there.

So it was oversold then?

Adding a fridged woman as a nonsensical plot motivator, blowing up the moon, adding sentient holograms that still function and have power after being abandoned for 800,000 years, adding a sinister End Boss who knows everything about the time travel shit in the movie’s plot, and then exterminating the Morlocks in the…

I remember during the lead-up to Star Trek: Nemesis, finding out that its script was being written by the guy who wrote this thing and thinking,

Past film version of Wells’ book previously arrived in theaters in 1960 and 2002, with Rod Taylor and Guy Pearce playing their respective travelers. Both film versions stick to Wells’ basic plot

Oh, please.

I think you missed the coup de grâce for why you shouldn’t make your own Halloween candy: even if you do it absolutely perfectly, all of your painstakingly crafted confections that you give out are just going to end up getting thrown in the trash by paranoid parents who assume you laced them with arsenic.

The War of the Triple Alliance was the first appearance of WWFRBH in the series, wasn’t it?

That’s some quality work right there. Thumbs up!