Armin Shimerman just barely sells Move Along Home for me, but those cheap-ass sets, yeesh… and everyone else's acting was still so rough, and they're being asked to go to 11, and it's loud and all over the place and such a mess. But Shimerman nails it, so it's fun.

Well, it's fun, yes. But it's also supposed to be a lot more than just a gimmick. It's not light fun the way the DS9 ones are. That's my point.

Except not funny.

Supposed to be fun indeed. I like your comment, it's very on point and correct, but I got stuck on this thought about the supposedly fun intentions of the MU. We know it's not fun, and I usually chalk it up as failed writing and stop thinking about it. But it just occurred to me that the reason TOS did its MU…

While I like the new Joran better, yes, this was a weird jump. But like others have said, the way Sisko played him (letting some Avery Brooks shine through), and that whole piano thing he always had going on from the beginning, were pretty serial killer-ish in tone.

I'm usually a big defender of genre episodes, and a big defender of Vic, but for some reason I just don't like BBBB. It will be fun to read about it and talk about it though.

O'Brien: I wonder if we'll ever be put into holodeck programs.

Drizzling shits? The MU one, yes, but Field of Fire? That's hyperbole at best. It's at least a decent and painless episode, surely, compared to the worst of TNG, Voyager, Enterprise, and TOS.

"Straight dudes, talkin’ ‘bout DS9: Mirror Universe Ezri is very attractive. The Joan Jett look is a good fit for her."

Like most of Animal House, that's an attempt to be "offensive" and politically incorrect in a way that is mainstream for your average young white straight male, and like most of Animal House it fails not because of that but because it's fundamentally unfunny and terribly paced and overly telegraphed. It's just not a…

Just stay away from Animal House. Aside from Belushi, it does noooot hold up.

The Code gets a bad rap. Sure, filmmakers were chafing under it, and by the time it left it was time for it to go. But it forced storytellers to be creative with their suggestiveness instead of merely salacious. Some of the greatest movies of all time came out during the Code, just as some came out before and after…

Nice try, but the beings in universe prime who manage the outer layer of holodecks, and also the residents of middle-tier holodecks who have the ability to design and manage other holodecks, will have thought of that one and made it impossible for holographic individuals to interact with the computers that control the…

Grand Hotel did nothing to warrant an association with that self-important piece of trash, Magnolia.

I think that, as they say, is just an engineering problem. There are probably multiple ways of creating the illusion of a large, ever-expanding space. It's a sticky point right now only because we can't think of a way that will definitely work, but I suspect several options exist or will exist. I don't think it's…

I don't see why that would matter.

"Which means the only possible point of any of this is to tell us more about Ezri. This is probably the most successful aspect of the episode…"

I've always felt that Unforgiven only works if you haven't seen very many Westerns. It's a bad homage to the genre.

I really like Sydney Pollack as a director.

"Ah, so this is why everyone was complaining about where Dukat ended up."