Ah, a variant of the Bourdain Gambit. Makes sense.

How does one go about this… Craigslist Casual Encounters? I wouldn't know where to begin. Are they better at TOS? TNG? My Deep Space 9 knowledge is pretty weak, and really don't want that to be a problem.

I"m still caught between the moon and New York City. It's crazy, but it's true!

On the teevee box. Here! I finded one for you: http://www.nbc.com/maya-and…

So you haven't been bludgeoned with the commercials for the upcoming show with Maya Rudolph and Martin Short? It looks like it's going to be pretty subtle and low-key.

Boom shaka lacka lacka lacka

I always liked Paul Newman's explanation of this film: "It's about getting to see the tits of the girl whose tits you don't want to see, and not getting to see the tits of the girl whose tits you want to see."

Counter-example: in the late 80s, Lorne produced the amazingly excellent 'Night Music', which was nothing but music from a wide cross-section of genres, and each episode ended with all the guests from that night performing together. Sun Ra AND Al Green? John Zorn AND Aaron Neville?

That escalated quickly!

NBC had a bit of a gun to their head with the DEVO performance — see http://dangerousminds.net/c… for the story.

That's no accident — the late 80s was when parent corporation GE really wanted to sell a lot of stereo TVs, which was a very new thing at the time. They started investing heavily in stereo programming a few years earlier (Miami Vice was the first big investment — licensing all the music that show used was not cheap).…

…and Janet Jones in the goodbyes at the end. I haven't seen her since the life-size poster for her exercise video on the wall at the video store I managed back in the day. Wonder how she's doing now…

"indie/rock/alt/punk" — and beyond. Back in the 70s/80s they really stretched here. Sun Ra? Sure. Captain Beefheart? Of course. Miles Davis? Por supuesto.

That's where she was? I saw her name in the end credits and had n recollection of her being in there at all.

Please tell me that one of the characters says "Talk to the hand" or a snowclone thereof…

complete with 83-year old Nichelle Nichols doing a topless feather fan dance?

Of course — don't know how that didn't pop into my head. That being said, I'm happy to stipulate NO TIME TRAVEL if I get NO HOLODECK in return.

Trek IV?

blows the dust off his BitTorrent client in anticipation of not subscribing to CBS' streaming service to watch just this

Star Trek: The Next Generation, when Worf got a baby. Hey, wait. You're right.