This just made me realize there is Rule 34 Jabba stuff out there.

Ah yes, one of Mos Eisley Brothers’ lesser know hits. Nice. I also liked:

Sometimes I feel I’ve got to
Run away, I’ve got to
Get away from the words you claim are from the heart of me
The words I shared
Seems to go everywhere
And I’ve lost my light
For I toss and turn, I can’t sleep at night

It seems to me that the new set of regenerations was merely a light show to mentally trick the Doctor into thinking he had more, which then let him regenerate into Capaldi, as the Doctor had likely been indoctrinated since his reset after regenerating from (presumably) Ruth into Hartnell into believing that he only…

James is British. He doesn’t need medical coverage.

The Division is an injoke. The organisation was originally called the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA) but it looks like they decided to change the name, possibly for legal reasons (like the UN getting annoyed by UNIT). The Division is a nickname for the real CIA, of course.

The name “Shabogan” was introduced in a 1976 episode. They were the original inhabitants of Gallifrey who refused to join Time Lord society and continued to live outside the Capitol (and presumably survived the Masters’ attack).

The Division is an alternate name for the Celestial Intervention Agency, the Time Lords’ secret black ops organisation that interferes with other world’s history and development of it suits their purposes. The CIA (ahem) are the guys who kept using the Doctor to interfere with the development of the Daleks, so are…

It’s been established before (in the classic series, I think?) that the Master has found a way to “steal” other TimeLords’ regenerations.

There was a lot of deep diving here, including callbacks to really old episodes. “The Panopticon,” the Mater states, “where we assassinated a president together...” referencing The Deadly Assassin, for one.

Which makes me wonder: Was the prison the Judoon brought the Doctor to... Shada? It kinda looks like it from some…

These two are IMO definitely the best thing about the show thus far, and that’s considering the main character as well. They’re a good concept, well-written, and well-acted, plus they bounce wonderfully off Picard and each other.

I thought the false door thing was great. It’s obviously just symbolic. Nobody is fooled, but you do it anyway.

My favourite TOS episode is Balance of Terror. Romulans didn’t get any better than that.

I think that was one of my favorite things that show did. I really enjoyed the allusions to the Klingon chef who loved to sing on DS9, too. That guy? No, he’s not a warrior at all. He might be gruff, but he’s mostly just super into crying a little bit over his favorite opera and making spicy hide noodles into your new…

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Keeping Up With The Cardassians? 

Yup. There it is.

Don’t forget she was the sexy space pope in “The Time Of The Doctor”.

Hey, lots of planets have a north!

Trek gets much deserved criticism in general for defining its aliens with broad strokes. Klingons are honor-obsessed warriors, Romulans are sneaky, Ferengi are greedy, etc. But something that I think that sometimes is forgotten is that the TNG to Enterprise era also did a lot of work to muddy those waters and try to…

Can they make that show instead of the Section 31 thing?