This was great! As someone who's just recently discovered Doctor Who, I've been catching up on some old-school episodes in preparation for the 50th anniversary and just watched the 1996 movie about a week ago. I enjoyed Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor, and am glad he finally got a proper send-off.

I also remember a not-particularly-good episode of SeaQuest DSV back in the early '90s when William Shatner guest-starred as a man with a son who could communicate psychically with dolphins. Apparently stories about marine life were more of a theme for him than we thought....

Yikes! How could you leave off the one that started them all?

The Oz books by L. Frank Baum. It's sad that most people only know "The Wizard of Oz," because a lot of the later books in the series are much better-written than the first. I read them over and over as a kid; I've also re-read them a couple of times as an adult, and have enjoyed Baum's creative wordplay and social…

Yeah, I live in the Seattle area and visited the Science Fiction Museum when it first opened a number of years ago; it was fantastic! I went again last year, and it's sadly been scaled way back—now it's basically just an add-on to the Experience Music Project, and they don't even sell tickets to each museum separately…

I agree, and would add to your list:

Regarding topics like Creationism... the good news is that these things tend to work themselves out over time. In the 17th century Christians were trying to deny the evidence that the sun was at the center of the solar system; today, though, I don't personally know any Christians still trying to hold to an…

Agreed that we don't get that choice. I can imagine some ancient Greek time-traveling to today, watching the video, and thinking, "not that song—why did it have to be that song?"

There's an easy solution to this...

I believe you mean, "I have a bad feeling about this...."

Obligatory...

A while back I was browsing books in a library and stumbled across a recent novel by Albert Brooks called "2030." I skimmed the first chapter, enough to get the premise: it's 2030 and cancer has been cured, which means a bunch of retirees are living longer than they anticipated and aren't really sure what to do with…

Actually, there was a TNG episode, "Pen Pals," that dealt with this exact issue. A pre-warp culture is about to be destroyed by a volcano, and Picard and Co. have to decide whether to save them. Pulaski and Data are for it, Picard has reservations, and it leads to a fantastic group discussion about the pros and cons…