I’m sure his staff undertook Herculean efforts to talk him into the family, the woman, and the press all being in separate rooms. Probably someone’s last straw. Look for resignations.

That was the idea, but it unwittingly played into the countervailing idea that abortions are abberrant and abnormal, when in fact they are very normal. One quarter of American women will have one in their lifetime. 

I have come to intensely dislike Tulsi Gabbard. I think she is a Republican fifth columnist. Why does anyone listen to her?

Forced birth.

Agreed on both counts.

The casting of the JJ-verse films were the one thing they got right. The actors all feel like successful interpretations of the TOS characters.

Yes, that scene and the scene where Kirk tells Sybok, “No, you can’t take my pain! I need my pain, it makes me strong.” were pure Star Trek.

It was the worst part, definitely. Also pointless.

No, you’re exactly right. Into Darkness is terrible not only for the bad parts of itself that make no sense - interwarp transport or whatever it’s called, Khan’s crew in the torpedoes, Khan’s identity fakeout — but for the way it cynically rapes and bastardizes TWOK, a far better movie.

It’s the worst.

yes, I think about the fifth season, when the Dominon War starts up and they shift to an ongoing story arc, instead of stand-alone episodes, which IMO was what DS9 had needed all alone. It gets very dark, examining the effect a long, corrosive war has on people and societies. Cartoonish characters like the Ferengi get…

The USS TITAN books don’t cover any of that? I’ve never read them, but they take place in the immediate post-war period, don’t they?

I like Insurrection just fine, and that’s why. It’s like an extended episode of the show. That’s all I really want in a TNG movie, an episode. A bigger episode.

I would actually like that, and it would be a nice gesture toward Wil Wheaton.

I would challenge the entire premise of this. I watched TOS when I was six years old, in its initial syndication runs after cancellation. And I got ... some of it. I’ll bet a lot went over my head. But I got enough that I loved Star Trek, and its been part of the architecture of my whole life, from then to now, almost…

Not one of my favorite episodes.

Beats the absolute hell out of me why anyone would want to watch a TV show based on the Murdochs. Gag.

We all know who really has the mandate of heaven.

It’s the one upside to Trump’s administration — it has ruthlessly exposed how rotten, corrupt and evil Evangelical Christianity really is.