I'm actually under the impression that you can fly all these Starfleet ships for quite a while with a skeleton crew of maybe five or six. Not indefinitely, but long enough in emergency circumstances.

We're the target audience.

Interesting. WTTW Chicago says it's Thursday but you're right, it's up on the national site. Not sure why Chicago would delay it if everyone else saw it last night. Thanks for that!

I suspect everyone who isn't a pervy queer woman or hardcore BSG fan wrote off "Killer Women" as a "Walker Texas Ranger" procedural with Tricia Helfer, but last night's was actually pretty good. Did anyone know this show was supposed to have a recurring arc? It's undoubtedly too-little too-late for this one. Most of…

It's on Thursday in most PBS schedules, I think. I am really looking forward to this one.

Two great jokes in this one: the moment when Kate absolutely flips out, which got two laughs - once for how long it ran until they cut to commercial and the second for coming back straight into the bleeping. (Accurately conveying how I would feel had the little shits thrown my phone down the disposal!)

Speaking of Lost Girl, though: anyone know how Richard Howland managed to escape notice until now? He's a great actor and given Hollywood's tendency to recycle the same three little people actors in everything, you'd think he'd have gotten more work. Did he start late, or is it like Dinklage and he has an aversion to…

This. I like this show for aspiring to that reach because 'fun, slightly campy episodic TV with a strong supporting cast of character actors' should never have gone out of style.

A review as written by someone who clearly doesn't get the show he's reviewing. Silk's probably the weakest link of this cast, and it has always aspired to the kind of schlocky, B-grade Vancouver-based mid-90s syndication style. (Plus obvious lesbian pandering, because we'll watch anything for media recognition! Which…

It's been a pretty weak year for American drama. Comedies are still strong, but tend to inspire less passion.

Urgh. I don't know if I'd be down for that kind of Orientalism/Magic in a (modern) Star Trek. Also, it doesn't jibe too well with the idea that the entire planet underwent a brutal 70 year colonial occupation in which most major traditions were destroyed.

I think I've even read this paper. If I recall, it was IRC chatbot code someone hooked up to AIM.

I've always thought so.

Yeah, I'd be a lot less interested in these reviews if it was all nostalgia fuel.

Agreed. Especially as I think the AVClub's stock in trade seems to be in the community and the deep nerding over the shallow 'hee hee I liked Goosebumps too!' stuff that seems to be in.

I really disagree with this. What we see of it doesn't give that kind of impression at all. It's pretty clearly meant to be an Eastern-inspired religion, with temples and meditation, but their religion is surprisingly full of texts (that Kira is apparently fluent in) - an education system that teaches these texts -…

Depends what the terms were, but: yes. I rather enjoy imagining Bajoran diplomats to the Dominion arguing that they've been occupied yet again.

The more I've discussed it today, the more I've warmed up to this idea. I'm not sure it's supported by the show, but then again, it's not contradicted either.

A nice touch about the Reckoning is that when they're doing the staff breakdown on their options, Worf backs Odo up on Kira's desires because they're the only two on the staff who have religion. It's one of the few times this series explicitly casts Worf's belief system as explicitly religious. (They do more with it…

Right. At this point in the show, Odo's feelings for Kira have basically become the proxy for his entire issue about joining society. It's a huge problem with the writing, but the time to fix it was about a season ago. The actual episode is pretty enjoyable for what they have to accomplish with it.