"Too long" is a valid criticism of a movie, like I said. If a movie can be improved by eliminating unnecessary scenes and/or trimming necessary ones, it is too long.

1) He didn't say it sucks because it's short; if anything, he said the opposite, that its shortness was welcome

Yeah, although I hate that plot point. But without some kind of predestination, it's an entirely meaningless and inconsistent plot point — why does Sisko have to be some kind of half-Prophet Chosen One? Why don't the Prophets recognize him in the pilot? He only becomes "The Sisko" much later in the series.

You don't really even need mystery science chemicals to make food do this. Any foamy emulsion will do. You can achieve the same effect with egg whites, and that's pretty much how meringue works and how you make cakes fluffy.

Yeah, if you make homemade ice cream you pretty much need to eat it immediately or use enough milkfat that it stays scoopable directly out of the freezer. It goes from frozen to liquid incredibly quickly.

And Nachos Galacticos really are good. Even better homemade than the ones on the Taco Bell secret menu.

Yeah, I don't think #2 or #3 are actually good reasons. #3 in particular is silly — the worst thing about Voyager was how frequently they solved problems by making the deflector dish shoot some sort of new beam.

Data's death doesn't matter if you don't haul the TNG crew out for another run. And in this hypothetical I hope they wouldn't. Love those guys, but they already found a way to barge into Enterprise. People can namedrop "Admiral Picard" or whoever but go fly off somewhere new.

The Tzenkethi are established as a powerful but fairly reclusive species the Federation has gone to war with before. I'm pretty sure absolutely no other details about them appear in canon, although I think the post-DS9 novels involve a war with them or something.

Ah, yes, the traditional Klingon boob window.

At least he's well-acted. I'm looking at you, Alexander.

I agree. I'm less afflicted by nerd rage than just… bored. They all look the exact fucking same. The facial prosthetics mean you can barely tell them apart by the face, and they seem to all wear the same outfits, except some are slightly fancier. Since they don't have hair for some reason, that can't be used to make…

The good news is that nothing that happened in Nemesis would really be relevant to a new show. There's no reason any of the TNG characters would be in it, and the Remans were such a flimsy plot lever that you can basically go any direction with the Romulans you like. (Just have them at peace and go deal with some…

The Klingon design hasn't really changed that much since TMP. The ridges on the forehead got gradually wider and more elaborate, but that's about it. The biggest deviation was General Chang, and that was just because Plummer didn't like the prosthetics and wig. All of these changes — and even the TOS to TMP change —…

(1) TOS still has the most cultural cachet for various reasons; it's not seen as being as "nerdy"
(2) Doing prequels allows them to ignore more of the existing universe without getting nerds angry
(3) At least some Trek-related people seem convinced that post-Voyager Trek is too high-tech to write workable stories for —…

Wait, it's Fuller who's responsible for the new Klingon design?

Thank God, I thought you were serious.

They added it back to the 2010 census because some older black people preferred it to the alternatives, but yeah, generally.

I've never had the opportunity to care one way or another (the trans women I know well are all either lesbians, blood relatives, or so close to my family they might as well be blood relatives), but my opinion has always been that, well, I can't really see any context in which I could both not know and also care about…

CNN/ORC Poll. March 1-4, 2017. N=1,025 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.

"Which of the following is the most important issue facing the country today: the economy, health care, national security, immigration, civil rights, foreign policy?"
The economy 26%
Health care 20%
National security 16%
Immigration 13%
Civil…