I don't think Lugosi ever played Fu Manchu, @jamesoleyden:disqus - though he certainly did a few turns in yellow/brownface.

Best.
Fake.
Asian.
Ever.
@exexalien:disqus .

I saw what you did there, @disqus_WysDe4oAdN:disqus .

It can be two things for @count_erpoint:disqus , @avclub-125c0e943c73bb8a0840ab524fdcbd08:disqus .

Well, he does have the Blessing of the Prophets and the Curses of the Pah-Wraiths, @RedScarab:disqus - which is more than good enough for a handful of temporal bureaucrats!

Kind of like the Time Lords themselves - "A Lot of Dusty Old Senators", I believe they've been described as, @AmaltheaElanor:disqus ?

Time Agents, Time Masters, Time Lords - they all basically screw up time & space, @avclub-3b82b1d883a5bf2defbc7567e9815d96:disqus !

If we're going for a Lois Lane who combines a bit of screwball with a smart, capable career woman, I'd far rather have Teri Hatcher or Dana Delaney, @disqus_HmE7OlEBVG:disqus . Margot Kidder just played the character too screwy, and rather than "brave" or "clever" she always seemed reckless and borderline psychotic.

It's a YUUUGEE Executive Order, the Biggest Executive Order ever, @Matthew_Blanchette:disqus !

All better choices than Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane like some goofball rather than a strong-willed woman professional in a man's world who was so used to fighting to get ahead that she sometimes fought the wrong people.

Mashed Dick-Tater Trump, @madattorney:disqus ?

@puppetspuppet:disqus - or because every classically-trained Black male actor will, sooner or later, end up playing one of Shakespeare's great "Knock it into the stands!" roles, Othello. (I remember a not-very-good Greek-set horror movie, Blood Tide, which had the saving grace of James Earl Jones playing a drunken,…

@avclub-e31106d0d76be7443d4a5cedbb5ce7ec:disqus - I tend to like Q best when he's actually, in his own smugly arrogant way, trying to mentor the "special" ones like Janeway and (especially) Picard. (Janeway's most "special" attribute might be the actress who plays her being close pals with the actor who plays Q, and…

@disqus_Zt4JAKoGQ8:disqus - didn't the showrunners, and Kate Mulgrew, originally want a Janeway/Chakotay romance? But Beltran said no, because he thought Mulgrew was "too old"?

@FerdinandCesarano:disqus - I completely disagree. Avery Brooks managed to be both theatrical and completely believably badass - in a way he never quite managed as Hawk in Parker's Spenser universe. (He was a bit too much a classically-trained actor to be believable as a self-educated legbreaker.)

I was going to say, @avclub-e31106d0d76be7443d4a5cedbb5ce7ec:disqus ! How are The Prophets any different from any other TREK God-Like Entity? Except less amusing (to the writers, at least!) than Q - who I will love Sisko forever for having punched in the nose? (I never got on the Q bandwagon, personally - every time I…

And even after she became a bit less Borg-ish, Seven of Nine was great because she just had zero fucks to give. I love that "Captain Proton" big where the ridiculous robot attacks her, and her response is to casually say "I am Borg", and dismantle his chest assembly in a matter of seconds.

Yeah, @disqus_Zt4JAKoGQ8:disqus - because Pon Farr has got nothing on Chatotay's desire to SCORE! with Seven of Nine!

Actually, I love The Prophets and the Bajorran Religious politicking on DS9, @avclub-e31106d0d76be7443d4a5cedbb5ce7ec:disqus. For a Universe that so frequently treated its characters' spiritual lives as though they all blandly Protestant, it was actually kind of wonderful to see a series that dealt with a religion…

Which would be a much better show than Timeless, @forbidden_donut:disqus .