Oh my god, I just cried. Nothing Valentina ever did will be as good as "big dicks and fried chicken."

Right, but my point was that if she wasn't willing to give, say, Dax or Laila a second chance for not being entirely fluent with their lip sync song, she sure as hell isn't going to bring Valentina back after she played games like that.

You know Alaska was trying to get on since season 1 and Katya was trying since at least season 3, right?

I mean, even if you don't want to create artificial crews, holopresence is also a thing that's confirmed in canon. With enough subspace comms buoys you can have an entirely human crew operate a fully powered ship with virtually no risk to themselves at all.

Another problem with going into the future is—you have to advance technology, and Star Trek is kind of the endpoint of how we can imagine technology altering society at this point, I feel like? It's entirely post-scarcity because almost any matter can be converted into something else via replicators. Intraplanetary…

The problem is that they can't easily go into the future either, due to two already-conflicting canons based on the novels and Star Trek Online. They'd have to jump another 100 years or so.

Uh huh. Are you convincing yourself?

How is it a "false equivalency"? Individual immigrants aren't responsible for the "unsustainable influx." Either illegal immigration is wrong or it is not. You don't get to look the other way when respectable white Canadians do it and then complain about the dirty Mexicans.

Who, exactly, is "we" in this statement?

Ah, so your primary concern in these matters is that everybody follow the rules.

"Send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, unless they don't have papers."

That would have been much better for the story and characters, although I imagine financial issues were in the way.

Most of them were pretty solid performers, but their characters were all incredibly flat, starting off as retreads of previous characters (Marley was Rachel, Ryder was Finn, Kitty was Quinn/Santana, etc.) and evolving into stereotypes (Marley ended up as pre-makeover Sandra Dee). I think they could have gotten some…

Because the show has become so incredibly dull that it's not taking the kind of risks that get an F. Pretty sure one of the reviewers has said that with a show like Glee, a D is in some ways worse than an F.

Yeah, I have to agree with Pierce. Blaine's fashion sense is a little ridiculous, but this is coming from three-seasons-of-reindeer-sweaters-Rachel-Berry. We're supposed to perceive Blaine as a "passing" gay who likes sports and stuff. He's Will to Kurt's Jack.

I eagerly anticipate next week's episode, where we see Kurt be better than Blaine again, because insecurity/superiority yoyo is the best possible model for a relationship people keep telling us is meant to be.

He pulled a significant amount of hair out of the Belchers' kitchen sink pipes. Probably wouldn't hurt to have him look at it?

I decided to see if you were right, and unsurprisingly, you were not. SafeSearch's most adult picture, in a search for "elsa frozen," "anna frozen," "rapunzel," "pokemon," "pikachu," "charmander," "princess celestia," "twilight sparkle," "rainbow dash" and "fluttershy" was a picture of Twilight Sparkle saying…

You imply that I don't actually know.

I'm not really sure how "making sure your children's-tv-show-related-porn doesn't show up in Google SafeSearch" is anything we should be impressed by.