But that's almost always because people suck, not because the machines suck. Whereas with a plane, it's the safest way to travel (so on the nose, Trek, but in this case I laughed so okay), but if something goes wrong you have no control if you live or die. People like to control their fates, even if it's bad for them.

Sure, but you're eliding over the fact that Soylent Green is people. It's actually an interesting question: How do you establish peaceful contact with a race for which preying on others is a biological necessity? At some point certain forms of life are just incompatible with greater coexistence.

Good lord is that really what you read into it?

This link totally spoiled me for 4 episodes later, THANKS. (Seriously, that made it so much more hilarious, thanks.)

Omnipotent beings keep teleporting them back home.

I agree his easy acceptance was the worst part of his appearance, and the scene was definitely in there to hype up Awesome Happy Utopians. But it definitely wasn't meant to shit on his cynicism - his cynicism WAS appropriate to modern times, which is why he's so beloved and I'm sure why the writers thought he'd make a…

This hammy stuff either works for you or you think it's the worst thing in four seasons. Personally I enjoyed all the cornball chipperness and cynical grumpiness and whatnot.

Plus, "Trials-and-Tribble-ations" and "Little Green Men"!

But! 28.8k WAS out in 94, and like I said this was a brand new computer. The fact that I don't even remember NOT having a 56k modem is a great demonstration that to a kid of that time, nobody even noticed the download speeds haha.

Hm, well, we definitely had a 56k in our sole computer from 95 to 99. It appears you are correct and that I have completely forgotten a modem upgrade at some point in that period, my bad.

This is one of the most cryptic and hilarious trivias I've seen on Memory Alpha: "Director Les Landau blocked this episode out and prefers not to discuss it, for reasons he won't elaborate. It had something to do with Troi floating in space."

Whoops, I forgot, there's a third thing: Also include a scene that 8-year-old jerodast would think is totally badass, the bartender whipping out a black market disruptor and spitting one-liners like "that was the first setting, anyone wanna see the second?" Yeeeeah gurrrrl!

"Night Terrors" seemed based on two distinct concepts: First, let's put in a bunch of scenes that would give 8-year-old jerodast nightmares. Second, I just read some sleep-science research that made it into my newspaper, and I want to write an episode based on it.

Good point! Instead of the final conversation in Ten-Forward, the ep should've ended with Geordi going to make peace with Brahams at her quarters, where he meets Riker coming out with a sheepish look.

Stewart's stoically horrified, ashamed, devastated reaction is pretty much the only use I have for "Galaxy's Child".

"I wish. I wish more than anything. But the holodeck can't simulate you with all your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real crush. You're the best the holodeck can do; but I'm sorry, you are just not good enough."

Goddamn Socialist Kenyan Muslim Borg givin' our jobs to the terrists!

I'll avoid making the mistake I made with the "Odo dates a hologram" episode and not try to respond individually to every point (especially since, you know, 5 years late to the party in this case), and instead just quickly blurt out my opinion for nobody to read.

Hey, what if the possessed kids start telling him the something important?? Kevin wouldn't want to be shouting over them!

Four, right? Yar, Pulaski, Crusher and Troi? Point still stands…