Doesn't seem so hard to me. "The End of Time" took place while the Doctor was in the desert talking to the Moment. When he got back to Gallifrey, no one thought to mention, "Hey, Rassilon tried to teleport the planet away before you could blow it up to buy himself enough time to destroy the universe, but your future…

I choose to believe the one flaming chunk of Dalek that passed by the camera when Gallifrey seemed to explode was the Emperor from the end of season one. The Dalek fighters did look a lot like the Emperor in that episode, as well, and I always thought it was ambiguous if he was the Emperor during the war, or promoted…

Two and a half years with the same two-to-four main characters has been pretty sweet. I could definitely get used to the revolving door on the TARDIS slowing down a bit.

Torchwood spent two out of four seasons failing to be Torchwood. Maybe three, depending on what you think Torchwood ought to be.

Do you feel the same way about how the various Star Trek shows handled their movies? "Unification" was teased as having clues about Star Trek VI in it, and it amounted to one line from Spock. "Rapture" had a change of clothes and another line about the Borg because "First Contact" came out around the air date.

As far as I can tell, the consensus is that the first and last episodes of each season are great, but the middle ones… weren't.

According to Voyager, Borg Drones seem to keep pretty well. Assimilated children are accelerated to adulthood in a few months. Seven was physically in her mid-twenties from her assimilation as a child until she was freed (coincidentally, in her actual mid-twenties. Lucky break, that).

@avclub-0806ebf2ee5c90a0ca0fd59eddb039f5:disqus They might not have had anything better to do. They spend days or weeks going from point A to point B between episodes, so depending on how far in advance Starfleet budgets out their time, they might have had, say, a week to deal with this Ferengi thing, at which point…

@avclub-c871d4ba38c83e9b1642f02872f7ef2f:disqus I saw it coming when I typed it yet, for it to actually happen… I feel so alive.

There is not. Both "Eat up Martha" and "Egg Freckles" (the Doonesbury version of the same joke) just give me nearby restaurants.

Before I saw your post, I actually was thinking that they might've gotten away with "Commodore Sisko" if Commodores weren't a TOS-only thing.

Also, Worf's reaction have having holodeck sex with K'hleyr (he demands she marry  him then and there and freaks out when she refuses) strongly implies she was his first, which might also contribute to his resentment of Alexander. One little mistake…

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus I was a little surprised Jake didn't even try to play the game with Weyoun. He could probably have sold dispatches from a Federation Citizen/the Emissary's Son as being a PR coup for the Dominion, and agreed to use a Dominion style guide. Would it have really cost him…

IIRC, the complaints were more about straight-up using the old recordings again, without any changes to fit the new context.

@Dikachu:disqus It's not even an example of ignorance! The description in the script makes it clear that Han Solo was just throwing jargon at a couple of hayseeds thinking they wouldn't know the difference. In the final draft, the parsec line has the note "Obviously lying," and in an earlier one, it's followed by the…

This is allegedly from someone who would know, posted anonymously and later deleted. All the details match up with other reporting (and details that were on the show that most of the reports didn't cover), so I'm going to take this as the full story with all the pertinent details.

I enjoyed (500) when I saw it, but there's a fair case to be made that it's kind of horrible. The Agony Booth has a good recap covering it's flaws. IIRC it's actually one of their final long-format written reviews before they went to 95% video content. It also hits something I did notice when I watched it, that the…

…the majestic swell of Bear McCreary’s score. (Non-diegetic music is admissible as a dramatic choice of the fictional “presenters.” Also, because the tunes kill.)
I read an interview with McCreary where he talked a bit about the thoughts behind the score. In-Universe, Europa Report is a bit of a Hail Mary play for the…

Unfortunately, the later versions of "Babylon 5: The Missing Lines" have vanished from the internet, but I saved a copy for my own records. They do include this gem for this episode.

But, again, he's basically her valet. It's not like he was doing her a favor, it's his job. She says "Let's make the sacred meal," he makes a sacred meal or he gets put on a slow ship to Minbar.