In addition to money, the writers and producers had a perplexing habit of wasting money on things that could've probably been done more cheaply, like the desert shoot and sailing ship in Generations, the full-size, location-shot mountain village in Insurrection, or the Romulan senate chamber in Nemesis.

It you look closely at any of the movies, apart from the Motion Picture, none of them really have the things that made Star Trek unique apart from established actors and sets, and a reboot necessarily loses those elements. There are plenty of ways the new movies could have been better, but I tend to give them a pass…

I shall symbolically take a drink in honor of "Frakes."

Have you seen any of the Stargate shows, which were also shot in Vancouver? Seventeen seasons of alien worlds that look like the woods outside of Vancouver.

I didn't much care for DS9 when it started (it was too boring for five year old me), but I give the detractors a bit of a pass because the kind of storytelling DS9 used didn't come into vogue until about a decade after it launched.

I was thinking about this the other day how creepily prescient the DS9 time travel arc was. It was set in 2020s San Francisco and, in the last four years, rent in San Francisco has skyrocketed to the point where many lower income residents have been forced to move away. Plus, wasn't Dax rescued by an internet…

I feel like The Search for Spock is a mixed bag, but probably deserves to be on the list with I and V. Apart from the pacing problems, general cheesiness of the Genesis sets, and lack of Kristie Alley, TSFS undid everything that made TWOK outstanding. Spock's sacrifice is undone. The Genesis device - which opened up…

So I'm not the only one who noticed the Alex Baldwin went on the Japanese Porn Star Diet between Seasons 5 and 6?

Product placement may not have worked for trivection ovens, but GE's Direct Current Drilling Motors for use on offshore or land-based projects sold like hotcakes.

The Facebook is cleaner, like The Netflick

If 30 Rock were being graded on the same scale as Dancing with the Stars, every episode would get an A. The grading is based on the merits of the series, not all of TV.

I think the darkest they ever went with Pete was, "Last night, I made love to my wife. And, she was asleep, so I didn't have to be gentle!"

You're not imagining the creepiness. Disney just hasn't worked all the bugs out of the eugenics and genetic manipulation programs they use to artificially breed child actors.

When your target audience is aged 2-14, sugary, candy-coated COLORS! LOTS OF COLORS! are what's on the menu. Been that way since Disney shifted its target audience back a few years after Hillary Duff and Shia Labeouf took off.

Yes, Jack's been tortured in 25 countries now!

Of course, if they had, Jack would have to go back to running. Even if went back to the U.S. with his pardon, the Russians would still come for him.

But…what about, "Immunity is not on the table, but your hand is!" Doesn't that count in the top 3 Bauerisms?

The Abramsverse is tricky from a licensing perspective, I suspect, as I think Paramount owns the rights to it entirely, while CBS retains the TV production angle. I would think that, if CBS chose to do a new TV show, they'd want to do one that didn't require sharing the profits with Paramount.

You don't need nuclear when you have plot warheads on hand.

The Oscar comes when "Batman v Jack Bauer" premieres at a theater near you.