Listen, I'm tired of this and you're never going to give the real answer here, so I'll give it for you and we can leave it by agreeing to disagree on whether Objectivism as Rand created it or Objectivism as practiced by apologistic backpedalers is the more significant in this discussion.

I appreciate that you spend over half of your posts criticizing me. Am I here being sarcastic or engaging in various rhetorical errors?

Ah, but your name-spelling comment wasn't a straw man, that was, what, satire?

This may be a straw man you're arguing against, though. I'm not sure anyone is saying they don't need to listen to opposing viewpoints. I think a lot of us have just rightly rejected Randism and are not interested in continuing to hear about it from the born-again.

You're talking about the rungs between someone who sets the fire and someone who lets the house burn and feels good about letting it burn. The number of rungs there is one, or in some legal and religious systems zero. It's monstrous AND smug, i.e. Randism in a nutshell.

Some people, on some subjects, don't.

I do not believe I contradicted myself. I think Rand deserves the basic amount of respect that all individuals deserve, but none as a philosopher. I do not believe that my perception of Randians is as far removed from reality as they or you might suggest. If you can get along with socialists, that's great. I can,…

My agreement with you here would surely count for more if I didn't also agree with you about Rand, but I echo your observation that the demographic here is more 30s than 20s. I also belong in the former range.

It's fine for someone to be a Randian, just as it's fine for someone to be a straight-up Social Darwinist and own it instead of calling it Objectivism (*braces self for lengthy explanation of things that are part of Objectivism but not part of Social Darwinism*), but I could not possibly get along with that person. …

Definitely Ayn Rand. Any torture porn. People who are deeply into music and look down on people who aren't deeply into music.

Agreed. Georgi is great in a purely sleazy way that Bond villains usually don't strive for, and Pushkin is a wonderful successor to Gogol in the likable-opposite-number role.

I say this as a fan of TLD, but I think it's hurt by the weak female lead and the weak JDB baddie.

As painful as ENT is to watch, I'd like a Netflix-exclusive Season 5 just so they can UNDO the character death we got through whatever holodeck/time-travel/handwaving they choose to do. Because you couldn't possibly have the show without him, and he was a legitimately good addition to the Trek canon.

I'd argue that we know her way better than we knew Jadzia. But, sadly, the time for the Great Jadzia-Ezri debate of '14 is coming to an end…

I think the thing that's good about the wormhole aliens arc is that it gives Sisko something that other captains don't have: a development and perhaps descent into something other than "the uniform." In fact, when Sisko yells at Eddington for betraying the uniform and does other stereotypically captainly things, I…

Exactly right, IMO. Voyager feels like a terrible slog compared to TNG and DS9, but compared to Enterprise it's kind of pleasantly quaint and does at least aim for, while rarely ever hitting, the same notes that classic Trek hits. I feel a little nostalgic while watching it simply because I watched it sometimes when…

I always think about that, too. Maybe he'll spend the next 70 years ensuring that his dad comes back "yesterday."

Professor, it's time for your 9 AM seminar.

"The helicopter rising, the rocks spelling 'Goodbye.'"

That's definitely one of my faves as well. As for favorite Dukat moment specifically, though, I have to go with him finding the baseball.