It’s a problem because they took the one female crew member we all loved and turned her into “Spock’s girl” - a female character who exists to give emotional support to a male character.

I can’t link images but....just Google “spock kirk bathtub”. Technically safe for work but only barely...

Don’t know how to add pictures, but what was up with that weird Chakotay and Seven pairing in the final episodes?

We always talked about them as a couple but you get them together and they just can’t stop bickering.

I had no problem with them together, but if someone showed Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood what would happen when they got together, I hope they would have done the right thing, shook hands, and walked away forever.

Spock and Uhura in new Trek is a problem.

I always thought Apollo and Sheeba’s burgeoning romance in the classic Battlestar Galactica episode “Hand of God” always felt a bit forced.

Worf/Troi is indeed one of the canonical bad Star Trek pairings, but I submit for you another at least equally as notorious:

Well,

It’s probably worth noting that isothiocyanate is also the chemical that gives mustard, horse radish, and wasabi their kick too.

Thanks, I tightened up the paragraph you’re talking about.

Before I scrolled to the text - “Aeryn was a con artist?”

+1000, read this article just because I wanted to see how high DeGriz would get ranked (I figured top three easy) but not even on the list? You fail author go read some Harry Harrison.

I really don’t think so

Doctor Who, first season of the 2005 revival, from the pair of episodes “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.” That’s when John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harkness was introduced to the Whoniverse. It’s a great pair of episodes.

Absolutely. Does anyone ever read a book around here?

You forgot one.

Honestly, there can be excuse for this oversight.

Not worthy to hold this man’s cloak

You forgot the Bushes!

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress turned me into a high school/college libertarian in a way Ayn Rand never could have. Heinlein’s libertarianism was so much more about personal adventure and freedom, and how social groups can still function even without serious regulation. Rand’s stuff is just invective.