I run into this a lot, but if you break down Zemo’s plan, it’s not that it relies on the heroes being idiots. It’s that the heroes were idiots and it fucked up his plan.

The plan is fairly simple. Frame Bucky for something so that he gets captured, and you know where he is. Use Bucky’s brainwash code, and make him tell…

I think this is a result of what I think is Moffat’s greatest fault as a writer: His characters somehow start with a lot of interesting depth, and become more and more one dimensional over time. I don’t hate Moffat by any means, but it seems in all his shows, characters get flanderized all to hell. I think it’s why he…

Peter Davison was also well known for other work at the time. But they had to follow up on Tom Baker, so that was an exception.

The same book that gave Meetra Surik her name stated that Revan still hadn’t remembered his original name, and he doubted it was a memory he’d ever recover. So... even lightside, he had to stick with Revan.

Of course, I try not to think about that book because... *shudder*

Yeah, but the holographically disguised outpost idea was introduced with the fantastic season three episode “Who Watches the Watchers.” All Insurrection brought to the table there was the invisibility suits. Which is an amateur mistake. You can’t introduce a technology like that, because it automatically opens gaping…

I can barely make it past the opening titles of Insurrection. And for reference, the best opening titles in Star Trek films are the First Contact ones. I will happily sit through title credits that consist entirely of blue words coming into focus on the screen, but somehow the director for Insurrection still managed…

It’s the second one. Awful as they both are, at least the idea of “Aliens are shooting at us, so let’s run away in our dune buggy” makes a sort of basic sense in the way that “Let’s distract the android by forcing him into a sing-along” does not.

Patrick Stewart also saved First Contact from being about fighting Borg in the middle ages by refusing to wear tights though. So, he saved the good film, and made the bad one... marginally worse.

In defense of Nemesis... well it wasn’t Insurrection. Hell, it’s probably only the third worst Star Trek ever. Fourth or fifth depending on how much one hates 2009 and Into Darkness.

Ah, you’re completely right! I forgot that it’s not the future.

Nah, before the Death Solar System, I think we need a Deathsteroid field. It’s like an Asteroid field, but they’re all little Death Stars. Collectively bigger than a planet, but still smaller than a solar system.

Surely the hangers don’t take up the entire trench though. The trench run doesn’t take place across the entire length of the Death Star, so it could have been in the equator trench along a different area. The main issue as I see it is not the hangers persay, but the fact that the equatorial trench appears to be the…

Don’t worry! Womp rats “aren’t much bigger than two meters.” The shaft is only two meters! They wouldn’t fit.

They’d have to be ejected through the main port instead.

I went on a rant about this above, but there’s also the implication that they never seriously considered the idea of a serious attack by an X-Wing. The turbolasers are made for bigger ships (as someone mentions the fighters are so small, they’re evading them) and... if you think about it, the idea of attacking…

It’d probably work okay if the heat was absorbed by something else, like a gas of some sort (air, potentially, but perhaps another substance would be more efficient) and that gas were ejected into space.

Honestly, that retcon kind of annoys me, because I still firmly believe it didn’t need to be there. The argument is that the vent is an obvious weakness. But... really? First, we know shooting down that vent causes a chain reaction to destroy the station. So it’s not like you’re directly shooting the reactor. That…

Maybe that’s part of the critical chain reaction? Normally the vent is airlocked, preventing direct exposure to the vacuum of space, and if you shoot a proton torpedo down it, you can destroy the airlock, causing the... er.. I dunno... future coolant to start leaking into space, leading to an overheating, exploding…

... No, physical violence has never been protected as free speech. If it were, it’d be legal to assault anyone, any time, for any reason.

Regardless of if Nazi’s should or shouldn’t be punched, there is no universe in which such an act is protected as free speech. YELLING at Nazis is free speech (and there is no…

I love that song! ... But less for the song itself, and more for the fact that if you start singing it, it confuses the hell out of the dog, which is hilarious.

Honestly, I stopped caring about the special editions and if they were bad/good as soon as they released the originals on DVD again. I know some people want the original cut with a hi-def render, and they could probably do that pretty easily, given some fans are just... doing it on their own, but I don’t honestly…