I mean, that itself was riffing on older cop shows, and I wouldn't say the music itself is that similar.

I started watching it when I was still living in the next room from my parents, but I used headphones. It's true, it is loud, but I love that part of it too. It's just so damn excited to be joining us for a new week!

Data said he was French. Are you sure Worf ever gets de-Klingonifying surgery? Seems like that'd be a lot of skull to remove from the forehead…I'm sure I'm forgetting an episode.

Brooklyn 99 may have a pretty conventional title sequence, but it executes it with such verve I just can't help but love it. It was probably the only thing keeping me on board on a couple early weeks I wasn't sure it'd find its footing.

It's a shame "Schisms" doesn't quite come together when it's got that amazing scene in the middle, but whatever, it's still fun, and one of those episodes with scenes I still remember vividly from two decades ago (like the less fun "Eyes in the Dark"). Strays:

The reaction of the producers afterward was disappointment that the Subspace Lizards weren't scarier, and basically came off as monks shuffling around, and "monks aren't scary". Which, I kind of agree, but on the other hand, if you don't think monks are scary, you must not have ever played Lode Runner: The Legend…

Same for me. When I caught this yesterday on BBC, I wasn't sure which "Riker goes nuts" episode it was. The MOMENT Worf walked into the Bolian Barbershop and saw those scissors, I knew instantly. The holodeck scene did not disappoint, and that's pretty much all I remembered. A little disappointing the rest of the…

I always got a racial purity vibe from this one. Q's main priority was first and foremost to discover if she was a "True Q" at all - being some sort of weird hybrid was what would cause her powers to be removed, and removing her powers wouldn't change the fact that she was born as some sort of weird hybrid they just…

Surely Commander Riker Day would have to be the Number One day of the month, no? (Or week, at least.)

I mean, he was exhausted. As "Eyes in the Dark" (what? that's not the name of the episode? YES IT IS.) taught us last season, once you start losing that REM sleep you might just murder your whole crew, so we're LUCKY all it was is some inappropriate napping.

Sorry but all of you arguing for adding a cut where there was none before are dead wrong. You're saying a (fairly lengthy) continuous scene would only be minorly affected by the change, but it disrupts our entire perception of the time passing in the scene. That's a dealbreaker when the whole point is slowly but…

You and Hornacek seem to have blocked out that there WAS a follow-up to that line (it was Data's):

I agree the focus was on the guest star, but I have no real problem with that, I get to see the main cast at least 20 other episodes every year. I actually really appreciated that Dr. Crusher had somewhat of a real storyline here, bonding with Amanda and dropping some science. (Well, criticizing the science Amanda…

Oh I don't know, the dramatic pause is usually best when standing in an open doorway anyway, right?

Jimmy James already pointed out the Harry Potter similarity, and I'm now recalling the conversation in the opening of the sixth book when the Minister of Magic has to tell the Prime Minister that the rash of disasters and murders going on all over the country is actually due to the wizarding war behind the veil. So…

"True Q" wasn't THAT fuzzy and nice and nice in the end. As Zack says the "fuzzy"/"safe" solution would've been to have Amanda remain human, because she's always been a human, has human loves and connections, and gosh darnit she's just a wholesome plucky girl who just wants to complete her internship. THAT's her true…

I'm worried too many people got distracted by you being awesome and missed the cool genuine trivia about Lt. Jae!

I was already raising eyebrows as soon as Riker was assigned Amanda's escort to the quarters; concluding the journey with "It's so big!" was just too much.

I love how the longest thread every week is the one discussing the next week. If I was Zack I woulda brought down the banhammer years earlier! Have some self-goddamn-discipline, y'all!

I was down to the bottom of the page and all I could see was "MURDER CHAIR". Instant upvote.