Gowron might be the most nuanced and pragmatic portrait of a politician on Star Trek.

I did not know this, but I choose to believe it's because I've successfully repressed most of "The Child" into the darkest recesses of my mind, only to be brought up occasionally be traumatic flashbacks.

I agree it's on the way out, but I don't think it's a boon at all. The quality of most of the streaming versions of stuff on Netflix or Hulu is way below what you'd get on a physical disk. Some of that is due to considerations for broadband speeds, which will get better, but some of it is because those versions…

Agreed. I rarely participate in comments sections, because it's rare to find a community that actually fosters interesting discussion, but I've really enjoyed finding this one, and reading Zach's take on the series. Taken for all in all, we shall never see its like again.

I'm of the opinion that "Battelstar" was what Ron Moore would've wanted but never could've done with a Trek show, anyway.

I assume Gowron had a decent amount of martial skill. He was canny enough that he must've anticipated having to fight to the death to maintain his Klington political career now and then, even if it wasn't usually how we saw him when dealing with the Federation.

Gosh, "Tacking Into the Wind" is an excellent hour of television. I'm sure posters above me will have said it before, but I gotta say it as well. Best. DS9. Ever.

Agreed, a very apt comparison. It's also a near-end episode that, in many ways, the finale could never live up to. I'd make a strong argument "Tacking Into the Wind" is the best episode DS9 ever did. While you can make cases for others, it's always going to be in that conversation. I like "What You Leave Behind"…

I don't see DS9 or Voyager ever getting blu-ray releases until the technology to revamp the special effects becomes a lot cheaper. As well as the TNG sets are doing, I think the effort required to get them out has been something of a cautionary lesson in what it would take, and there's no guarantee you'd sell enough…

Love me some Bull and Michael Cudlitz, love me some ominous openers to Operation Market Garden, love me some (sadly short-lived) James McAvoy. Thusly, I love this episode.

I've been definitely watching it much more than Netflix lately. It still has issues. The content is getting better, but the menu is still a nightmare to navigate and I get constant buffering in a way I don't with Netflix or even HuluPlus. I'm hoping it'll improve. If nothing else, maybe Amazon will dump more money…

I'm assuming this is less threatening to their deals with cable providers, and they can add the pile of money from Amazon to the piles of money they get from Comcast Etc. I still think it'll be a standalone option at some point, but that's probably a few years down the road, after television cable services are…

I got Prime for the free shipping, and even with the price increase I use it enough to effectively get my money back and then some at the end of the year. I think that's probably still the main incentive to get it, if you want to look strictly at the value of it. I am going to very much enjoy binging old HBO shows,…

This. That they made this adaptation choice isn't - so much - an issue for me. Jaime's an interesting character, but he's not so "reformed" that he can't still be a heel.

I'd agree with the argument that it's even more a flaw of editing than directing. Directors and actors can lose perspective on how something will look to an audience if they've worked it out between them. But the way this was cut made the tone of it even less consensual and muddled, rather than making any attempt to…

I watched the ep both as a reader of the books, and after reading an interview with the director (that went up when the ep ended on the east coast) that stated it "became consensual," and made it pretty clear the guy at least didn't think he was filming a rape scene.

I am a big fan of Mama Smash. She is one of many wonderful supporting characters that make Dillon feel real. I was a little sad she didn't get a cameo during the season 4 arc that could have theoretically involved Planned Parenthood, but I like to imagine that she was there off-screen.

There are a lot of self-contained episodes I really enjoy ("The Zeppo" is a famous example of that, as are all of Whedon's experiments like "Hush" and "Once More With Feeling"). I feel like you'd still get those in a shorter season ("Breaking Bad" season 4 is, I think, a great example of how to balance really tight…

I did a "Buffy" rewatch last year and the 22-episode season length became an absolute slog in a way I didn't expect. Even during seasons 2 and 3, which I think are two of the best television seasons ever produced.

There's no reason CBS and "The Good Wife" producers couldn't do a 13-episode season, except money. You make a lot more money if you put out 22 episodes. If the quality of some of those suffers, and you know the quality of some of the place-holder episodes is going to suffer, that's just the price of doing business…