I think it worked well enough for TOS but by the 80s the vision had become plodding to the point they were recycling TOS stories and tropes (all-powerful energy beings, etc.). As I said in another comment, DS9 is the exception that proves the rule, Ira Steven Behr managed to operate his own drama-driven, partially…

A severely depleted ESPN must make promises to the NFL like Chief Wiggum/Mayor Quimby made to the Radioactive Man producers: “We’ll blow up our dams, destroy forests- anything! If there’s a species of animal that’s causing you problems nosing around your camera, we’ll have it wiped out!”

At least he didn’t assist in a HIPAA violation this time, but the day is still young.

I only became aware when reading the complaints of former showrunners (only DS9 managed to escape the edict because attention was being paid to getting Voyager ready for the UPN network).

“Most Negligence Lawsuits Finalist”

Why wasn’t its tagline Bruce Willis gruffly muttering to himself “Welcome to the future, pal”?

Roddenberry and his no-conflict, everything’s taken care of future (slavishly adhered to by Rick Berman in later series) was really a debilitating influence on good, non-metaphorical drama. There’s more to think about re: class conflict and scarce resources in a few episodes of Dark Matter and The Expanse because…

I love the simpering, pro-management way in which Schefter delivered the news, but he has always seemed to be an unctuous company man.

I thought I had correctly guessed two of the five.

The worst I ever saw (and thank God the movie tanked) was Star Trek Insurrection, where the ageless, utopian society was basically all-white. Didn’t come up much in 2000-whatever but Frakes and the producers profusely apologized for it in the most recent oral history book.

I said “best case,” not “likely case.”

It just came to me: Doctor Who... ONE STEP BEYOND (Madness song starts playing)

At least he’ll eat well in prison.

I always thought it was weird when Heimdall set up a copy shop side business.

That Muppet made of leather acted his ass off.

I don’t know why, I mainly buy jerseys based on which teams have had the most players avail themselves of the independent arbitration procedure.

Sometimes when he’s talking it’s easy to forget that he’s just a giant puppet. I mean, imagine Mortimer Snerd asking for more cash from Edgar Bergen, you’d be like Mortimer, you’re a dummy! You can’t do that! and then realize how foolish you look addressing a dummy like that.

Now all we need is a ska-flavored Doctor Who theme song instead of that theremin-heavy relic.

I haven’t seen this sort of ‘video directing’ since Howard Hawks’ Dancing Leo Durocher short from 1936.

Finally, justice for the non-Vietnamese victims.