Of course it was, but it was played for laughs. Why are we laughing at the blind guy who can't see the book? Maybe I should've said "cheap joke" not "cheap shot". But it just seemed like an easy joke because lol disabilities mean he does stuff wrong.

Oh dear god "People". I don't know how you can like "Time's Arrow" less than this dreck, man. I can't believe this is the same season that finally puts Troi in the blue uniform.

I can't believe the bad guy calls them his "receptacles". Ew.

There's some retcon in the Memory Alpha trivia about focusing all the shield energy toward the doors so coming at it laterally it was essentially unshielded. Given that the shields were about to pop anyway I guess I can buy that.

This is like the revenge for that time she was a cake.

Really wish people who do site overhauls wouldn't destroy old data…

There's a big difference between replacing a featured shot of a character hugely important to the film with a different actor, vs adding a couple background guys that won't be noticeable unless you're looking for the Easter egg, without removing anything that was already there. Has to be done right, with subtlety, of…

I liked the "shit on the poor insecure ensign" scene so much that, whether it was funny OR scary, that definitely would've been the way to go in my book. This fast aging crap, psychic technobabble, and pointless debate with an obvious psychopath was just painful.

But that's exactly what synthahol is supposed to be, minus the extra step of having to find the magic potion to sober you up! It DOES intoxicate you, but you can shrug it off by focusing really hard when the Romulans decloak right outside. Always seemed pretty useful to me…

I do. Although I would say he looked more real than Farscape.

Because the forehead aliens looked similar, but also looked like actual living beings, not puppets.

Presumably they did it a long, long time ago, when the star was not the worst star to do so.

They said his pattern had experience 0.003% degradation or some shit, I'm assuming some of the accent was lost in that little sliver of his brain :)

Judging from the fact that most people did like Scotty in this, yes, we were supposed to like him in this. He was insecure about becoming irrelevant, but that's quite understandable and a good character arc for the hour.

Oh by the way, your selections for name choice make sense to me, Zack: you seem to be following examples set by the show. The only person to call Picard Jean-Luc is Dr. Crusher, and he has plenty of plots with plenty of other people, so that one's easy. Riker is occasionally called Will by Troi or Picard, but again is…

"I'd travel back to times when there were plagues and epidemics…when I could murder and use disease as a cover." REALLY, Doc, would you? BullSHIT you would, who cares about cover when you're a goddamn time traveler! Kill whoever you want! A better explanation would've been some technobabble about what kind of…

I dunno, I'm a defender of this episode but that just struck me as a cheap shot at the blind.

There's intent and execution. If the chef was trying to make a steak that tasted like an orange, and it tasted like a really good orange, I'd congratulate him. It might not get a lot of orders, but it'd be a successful orange-flavored steak. If he was trying to make a really good standard steak, advertised it as a…

According to Memory Alpha this is the first time we see transportee-POV, and there's only one other, in season 2 of Voyager.

Uh, isn't there? She's literally his "receptacle". He inserts his bad thoughts into her and her whole life changes to live with them.