You have to wonder if he isn't encouraging emergency agents to send extra bodies his way on the side, just to make sure that Liv never goes hungry. The other mourge guys must just think he's super helpful. Which he is.

Well, more than that, we recognize that each child is a potential sentient creature. We tend to regard that possibility as starting with birth, but other people think it starts with sperm and egg joining…. God, the Duggars of the Salmon People would be terrifying.

Ah, that's who I was trying to think of!

Ah, that's true. They didn't seem like hunter-gatherers, but they were definitely naive. Poor Kes… 9 years to live, and spending 5 of them with Nelix.

"Computer….. Human flesh, tenderloin, medium rare, Bearnaise sauce."

Didn't they have Old Doctor McCoy on the show? Generations got really long in the 23rd.

I think it would be really cool to have a character from one of those No-Tech civilizations that accidentally ended up in the Federation. It seems like the sort of thing that would happen.

Well, that's fair enough. It's more sad for me, since my niece just absolutely loves that show… never had the heart to tell her I never finished it.

Ding Ding Ding.

Levar Burton kicks a stone. "I was actually on Roots"

You could take the setting and just not tell the Reaper storyline. It's a really good setting. I'm sure Martin Sheen isn't doing much too if you wanted to have TIM show up from time to time.

I think they mean roots, in terms of narrative style, rather than Roots, back in early Star Trek history.

Presumably. We consider good parenting to be such a good core value, it would be interesting to see otherwise moral beings that reproduce by spawning. John Scalzi had a species like that… they initially tried to allow every one to grow up, and it ended badly.

You know, I have been wanting to see aliens that were a bit more on the Sheliak end of the Scale of Disturbing, rather than the Troi's mom end.

You run out of steam too? Once Hannibal was finally caught, I just couldn't feel motivated to do the final half a season.

Dead Like Me could be pretty dark too.

Yeah, Amazon's full season buys aren't cheap, but they're still less expensive than having cable.

"Well, we've already build the zero-gee sex swing for one show…."

There's always reading the books :)

I look forward to Starbucks making a superbowl cup, and then making it more subtle and endless people crying it.