Fair enough. I really didn't like Shadowplay and especially not Paradise. My objection was aimed at the characterisation of high stakes storytelling as somehow 'cheap' which now I see that you probably didn't intend in the way that I perceived. Thanks for clarifying!

"Paradise" is completely awful. Letting a villain get her way when we have just been prompted for 40 minutes to hate her with an absolute unadulterated passion is very poor storytelling. However, at least it's better than Enterprise Season 3, in which it was *the star of the show* I hated with an absolute…

"Paradise" is completely awful. Letting a villain get her way when we have just been prompted for 40 minutes to hate her with an absolute unadulterated passion is very poor storytelling. However, at least it's better than Enterprise Season 3, in which it was *the star of the show* I hated with an absolute…

"Putting our cast members in danger is such a cheap way to add investment."

"Putting our cast members in danger is such a cheap way to add investment."

Actually the Cardassian resistance was first mentioned a few weeks earlier in TNG's 'Lower Decks'.

Actually the Cardassian resistance was first mentioned a few weeks earlier in TNG's 'Lower Decks'.

In 1981 I played an awesome cartridge-based video/board game for the Odyssey2 home entertainment system called 'Quest for the Rings'. It was really fun and sticks in my mind as a formative experience.

In 1981 I played an awesome cartridge-based video/board game for the Odyssey2 home entertainment system called 'Quest for the Rings'. It was really fun and sticks in my mind as a formative experience.

The on-set atmosphere you describe in which actors and crew are typically afraid to point out problems with the script — i.e. 'it simply isn't done' — explains everything anyone needs to know about why Hollywood and other 'professional' film industries so consistently turn out awful, awful results and regularly have…

The on-set atmosphere you describe in which actors and crew are typically afraid to point out problems with the script — i.e. 'it simply isn't done' — explains everything anyone needs to know about why Hollywood and other 'professional' film industries so consistently turn out awful, awful results and regularly have…

It's very likely that Worf's first shift happened when he actually passed through the anomaly in the shuttlecraft. Every subsequent shift (no longer near the anomaly) required the presence of Geordi's VISOR to be triggered.

The connections are from Worf to Worf. Worf always trades bodies with a Worf in a different universe. No live Worf in that universe = nothing to trade with, ergo that's not a direction he can travel.

Assuming you weren't kidding, Worf didn't travel to multiple universes via brain injury. It happened when his shuttle passed through some anomaly putting him in a quantum flux prone to dislocation when in proximity to Geordi's VISOR's subspace pulse.

Of course Worf was already standing on the bridge; because the Worfs were never disappearing, only swapping universes with each other. No Enterprise was ever without a Worf. This was all explained in the episode.

The Founders copying Odo's look is a form of psy-ops — they are hoping to remind all the solids in both quadrants that Odo is one of them, thus ensuring that their own soldiers won't hurt him and possibly sowing mistrust of him among enemy forces. /fanwank

"Why did you never see any non-realistic holosuite programs? Why is every
holosuite program a generic representation of a film genre or
historical recreations?"

"Transporters and replicators are a bad narrative problem because the series never set enough hard limits on their capabilities."

Guinan's claw fingers are clearly a fighting stance, signifying that all El-Aurians are highly trained in tiger-style kung fu, or have at least seen it in a movie.

Either the allegory is ham-fisted because it's so obvious or direct, or else it's not very direct because it doesn't correspond directly to the global warming situation. You can't really have it both ways. The fact that speed is not exactly what causes pollution on our world is evidence in favour of less obvious and…