Yes, but as I pointed out, did they continue to keep students residing in them while they were being used as overflow? That would seem a bit far-fetched.

So this movie is about this woman being terrorized and brutalized by some angry white guy? And she’s being played by Caren Pistorius? So was Elizabeth Moss just busy that week, or was there just not enough left in the budget for her after they got Russell Crowe?

“You should emotionally prepare for the fact that your residential college life will look more like a hospital unit than a residential college.”

“It’s never going to be the same again. There is no going back to normal anymore.”

“This pandemic is trivial compared to the 1918 one and that was practically deleted from history by the mid 1920s and we only now are beginning to remember it as it is suddenly relevant again.”

The fact is, those are outliers. It’s like calling 20th Century Fox amazing because they happened to fund the first Star Wars and Die Hard.

The difference there was that was the executive’s idea. Brandon Tartikoff wrote that down on a cocktail napkin and that was the kernel from which the show sprang.

On top of that, the CBS brand is not especially cool, while Paramount conjures images of stars flying at a mountain before a Transformers movie.

This summer, see Elizabeth Moss be terrified, abused, and exploited by powerful males... yet again!

So I guess we have to wait for season 2 for Perry’s other main antagonist, Lt. Arthur Tragg, to show up.

The rep on Voyager was essentially that it was a newer, somewhat less inspired version of TNG. Essentially, TNG had ended about a season or two earlier than it could have - at least from a ratings standpoint. From a creative standpoint, more than a few of those last season episodes seem to indicate there wasn’t a lot…

The myth was always that Star Trek was a low-rated program during its initial run. The truth is it put up respectable, if not phenomenal numbers. Certainly enough to get renewed even before the fan write-in campaign. But NBC brass didn’t really “get” what it was about, and they always wanted it to be more action…

I get the distinct impression that they fall prey to the most common misconceptions that most people who didn’t watch much Star Trek seem to: That TOS was actually “The Wild Wild West,” only set in the future, i.e. a show about guy who was constantly screwing, getting into fist fights, and finding himself in…

I could go with it if the plot is about a fight within Starfleet or people working as double agents to snuff out or undermine Section 31. Or perhaps Section 31 has already been disbanded, but “rogue elements” are still intact trying to achieve its aims, and it’s our heroes’ jobs to root them out - that sort of thing.

Because it’s Hollywood and executives understand relatively little besides, “Popular Thing + Other Popular Thing = (Hopefully) More Money!”

I had this argument with somebody over the fact that the new Corvette doesn’t come with a manual. They raised all the usual talking points about how modern automatics are technically faster than manuals, and how racing gave up on manuals years ago and blah blah blah.

And bowling!

Well, they killed an attractive, famous young white woman, an heiress, and a guy who was friends with a lot of pretty, famous people. That gets you a lot of play in the media, then and now. In fact, one of the things that’s always irked me about the way the Manson Family killings are portrayed is that the LaBianca’s…

Here’s the thing: There was a time when, “Hey, what if we did Star Trek, but instead of having the characters be all noble/heroic/morally flawless they were all deeply flawed and morally compromised?” was kind of intriguing. It was intriguing because we hadn’t really seen it before. But now we have. Oh lord, have…

Trek had it’s cerebral moments, but it also had a lot of half-naked women and pew-pew lasers.