Pratt also has yet to convince me he can play that thinking man's action hero-type. Dr. Jones… was a professor.

The problem with Indiana Jones is that he is entirely a creation of the movies. He can be inspired by other characters from the past, including James Bond, but in the end there are no books that can claim to have originated the character. It's not the same as replacing Sean Connery or having a new Tarzan or Batman or…

I wouldn't describe any of those scenes of Harrison Ford when he was possessed in Temple of Doom as him being scrawny, though.

It's frustrating because Russ demonstrates great range and skill in all the episodes where Tuvok acts out of character. "Meld" is fantastic, he's charming in "Riddles…"

"Move Along Home" is a favorite of the DS9 cast's to bash.

UPN was such a mess. Voyager was stuck as the flagship of a network that couldn't find it a quality or successful companion series and was constantly flailing to find a core audience. All the experimenting eventually led to a bizarre lineup that appealed to African Americans one night, female teens the next, sci-fi on…

IMO Enterprise was the first Trek show in ages where the most interesting character was an unadulterated human. It maybe reflects badly on the rest of the characters, but I loved Trip by comparison, whereas it was usually the characters who got to comment on the human condition who were the most fun on the other…

Her arc is fits and stops though. Season 5 deals with her feeling of numbness in "Extreme Risk" and then she's fine and dandy again until right at the end of the season in "Juggernaut" when she's more belligerent than she's been in years. Her relationship with Tom goes from being forced and highly telegraphed starting…

She got a directing career out of it at least.

"Lineage" I believe. I always liked "Faces" from season 1 - that was a great showcase for Dawson and a very creepy story to boot.
It's another frustrating example of how almost nothing has consequences, but "Extreme Risk" in season 5 did at least try to show how the destruction of the Maquis affected her. Apparently…

It's frustrating as a whole to think that TNG and DS9 both spent a lot of time setting up Voyager and that the former used the Maquis to write out two major characters in its final season when every minute was precious and that in a handful of episodes DS9 did more with the Maquis on their own than Voyager did in 7…

I liked that one a lot. Pure silly fun, and great sets!

They did at least write a scene that mentioned it, possibly filmed it, but it was cut for time. Year of Hell was also planned to be the season 3 finale before the idea for Scorpion was hatched.

Did anyone ever tally how many crewmen the show was really supposed to have? It kept hovering around 150 despite many deaths over the years.
If nothing else, I always assumed the changing crew count at the start of Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica was a subtle dig at the carefree attitude the Voyager writers had to…

Partly because the network was concerned that it would alienate new viewers. This worked in season 4 when the introduction of 7 of 9 goosed the ratings so much they lifted the entire network's year-to-year numbers for a couple months. But in the end it just means Voyager has a smattering of good episodes and a couple…

…and the show stopped suggesting the crew needed to conserve energy and resources somewhere around 1996 when they thought it was a good idea for the crew to hang out in a Club Med holoprogram every other day.

My issues with Equinox all came up in the conclusion. Janeway goes absolutely berzerk and the show just ignores the fact that it ever happened afterwards. Even Tuvok and Chakotay's huddle to worry about it includes dialogue where they reminisce about how they don't get along - which hadn't been true for the last 3…

Braga was not the show runner in season 4, Jeri Taylor still was. And for what it's worth, his swan song as show runner of a Star Trek series was "Enterprise" season 3 which ended with a long arc showing a critically-damaged Enterprise and emotionally-scarred crew limping to the end of its mission.

The one thing about Jeri Ryan though is her character rejuvenated the show not just in the ratings like it was supposed to, but also its writing. In season 3 the show got looser and that made it superficially fun, but drew it further from its premise - it really might as well have been TNG by then. 7 of 9 gave the…

Well, Ron Moore specifically mentioned Fuller as one of the writers the execs were keeping from fully exploiting their talents.